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Enterprise services help Navy increase ‘value per user’

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When it comes to shared services, the Navy isn’t taking a “build it and they will come” approach to enterprise services.

Instead, the goal is to find a lead office, build something so good that other offices want to use it, and make the shared service become boring and invisible to the mission.

Justin Fanelli, the Department of the Navy’s chief technology officer, said the service has six enterprise services after having none a year ago.

Justin Fanelli is the CTO for the Department of the Navy.

“We want them, even the ones that are through, to perform at a higher level. On the front end side, we are looking at both Horizon Two to pilot those efforts, as well as here solutions, workarounds, and other activities at the edge at operations. So we’re scouting within that, essentially deployment across all of our different sites for what are the highest performing activities,” Fanelli said on Ask the CIO after speaking at the West 2025 conference, sponsored by AFCEA and the U.S. Naval Institute. “Between private sector offerings and existing capabilities, where do we scale them? That scaling process has been essentially updated in a pretty significant way where we say we are making choices based on how much better the solution is versus how we’re doing this.”

The Navy’s enterprise services run the gamut of capabilities that every command or organization would need from identity, credentialing and access management (ICAM) services — which the chief information officer designated in May 2024 — to the most recent one for messaging and collaboration.

Fanelli said the goal of enterprise services is simple: stop building certain services or functions many times over and offer a single instance that is so good the users don’t even know it’s there.

“As you go through convincing people to trust that service when you build something like that, and it will be there when they need it, is a big part of this job. I’ve spent a lot of time over the first few months connecting with those stakeholders, understanding their needs, understanding their concerns, and then going back to the people executing that I know from my former life, and saying, ‘Hey, we need to take this into account,’” he said. “We need to understand how it’s going to be resilient, how it’s going to make the user experience better. How are we going to know? How are we going to measure and show these partners that it all really works? So some of that dot connecting, and I guess negotiation in some cases, is really where I think at the DON CIO we’re at our best.”

Users seeing a difference

One of the ways the Navy measures the impact of an enterprise service is based on the simple metric of “value per user.” Fanelli said that is from an operational resilience perspective and overall performance improvements.

“For instance, one through this shoot is the Satellite Terminal (transportable) Non-Geostationary (STtNG) program, a proliferated low Earth orbit. Here is a case where, at very good value, we are using something that is commercial, where we only used to use military. The goal for outcomes is exponential performance improvements on the current budget, and then where we can scale activities,” he said. “I’d be hesitant to put a cap on the amount of positive disruption that we’re looking for, but we have a community of unleashed people and that continues to grow as we find them. We’re looking for 50% or greater improvement. We’re looking for as many of these efforts that we can use to accelerate our key priorities as possible.”

At the same time, Fanelli said some enterprise services have resulted in improvements that are eight or nine times better than the old services.

The potential of modernizing existing capabilities and then offering them to the entire DoN is part of the bigger Operation Cattle Drive effort to turn off old or duplicative systems. Operation Cattle Drive began in 2020 and aims to eliminate redundant systems and applications across the Department of Navy. The focus for 2025 is around the business mission area with a goal of turning off 55 to 60 legacy systems.

“I think we recognize that this is a time for rapid change. This is a time for technology to inform the concept of deployment, so that we can work differently, so that we can support our warfighters in a drastically different way and a better way. I think with that we are recognizing that it is a good time to be comfortable being uncomfortable learning by doing and just expecting outcomes,” Fanelli said.

Breaking down siloes

To manage this rate of change, the DON is employing a portfolio approach to technology services. Fanelli said it’s part of how they are breaking down organizational siloes that have built up over the years.

Fanelli said from an acquisition perspective, the portfolio approach could mean a pilot started by one program executive office could be picked up and brought across the goal line by another program executive office.

“This is the idea of having a more transparent inventory different efforts and then structured pilots in general, so that we can say you are piloting for one use case, this group is piloting for a different use case, but it looks like those are closer than we think. We’re talking to the same vendors. We want it to be based on merit and impact, not based on where it’s invented or who’s working on it,” he said. “The cross-PEO work is really starting to pick up. I’m very excited about that because there are more things that we can do together. The number of opportunities where we can do one plus one equals three for command and control, for network activities, for connectivity and just foundational work as a whole, has really picked up in the last very short period of time.”

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Black Lives Matter Activist in Boston Pleads Guilty to Federal Fraud Charges – Scammed Donors to Fund Her Lifestyle

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A Black Lives Matter activist in Boston named Monica Cannon-Grant pleaded guilty to federal charges this week, admitting that she scammed donors and used their money to fund her own lavish lifestyle.

Cannon-Grant was previously held up as an admired figure. The city of Boston named her the Bostonian of the year at one point for her ‘social justice activism’ and she was even recognized by the Boston Celtics basketball team for her efforts.

She is now facing a minimum of two years in prison.

The New York Post reports:

BLM-linked activist admits conning donors to fund her lavish lifestyle

A once-celebrated Boston social activist has pleaded guilty to defrauding donors — including Black Lives Matter — out of thousands of dollars that she used as a personal piggy bank.

Monica Cannon-Grant, 44, pleaded guilty Monday to 18 counts of fraud-related crimes that she committed with her late husband while operating their Violence in Boston (VIB) activists group, according to the US Attorney’s Office in Massachusetts.

The activist scammed money — including $3,000 from a BLM group — while claiming it was to help feed children and run protests like one in 2020 over the murder of George Floyd and police violence.

Cannon-Grant also conned her way into getting $100,000 in federal pandemic-related unemployment benefits — which she used to pay off her personal auto loan and car insurance policy.

But she has now confessed to transferring funds to personal bank accounts to pay for rent, shopping sprees, delivery meals, visits to a nail salon — and even a summer vacation to Maryland.

Just amazing.

Here’s a local video report:

She should pay back every penny.

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Keith Olbermann Backpedals Furiously With Apology for Threatening CNN’s Scott Jennings – Jennings Responds (VIDEO)

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As the Gateway Pundit reported yesterday, former MSNBC host and generally unhinged leftist Keith Olbermann, appeared to threaten CNN’s conservative pundit Scott Jennings on Twitter saying, ‘You’re next motherf**ker.’

Well, Olbermann may have gotten a phone call or a visit from the FBI because today he walked back those comments with a full-throated apology.

RedState has an update:

To quickly recap, Scott Jennings, a Salem Media Network radio host and conservative CNN political commentator, reacted to breaking news on Monday that Kimmel had been reinstated by tweeting, “So basically his employer suspended him for being an insensitive pr**k, and we don’t live in an authoritarian regime? Got it.”

This enraged Olbermann, who proceeded to tweet what many, including Jennings, perceived to be a threat. “You’re next, motherf**ker. But keep mugging to the camera.” Jennings tagged Patel and included a screengrab of the tweets in response.

Though the FBI hasn’t commented as to whether an investigation was launched, Olbermann ostensibly appears to have thought twice about what he tweeted and deleted, apologizing profusely in tweets posted on Tuesday and claiming what he wrote was “misinterpreted”:

See Olbermann’s tweet below:

Scott Jennings, always a class act, offered this hilarious response:

Keith Olbermann really needs help. The guy is just so out of control.

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Where is Lance Twiggs? Kirk Assassin’s Transgender Lover Has Vanished

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Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson and roommate Lance Twiggs

Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson lived with his transgender partner – a male-to-female trans named Lance “Luna” Twiggs.

The FBI used Robinson’s texts with his transgender partner to solidify that Robinson was the assassin. Lance Twiggs has not been charged with any crime; however, federal authorities are still investigating.

Last week, Utah authorities released the text exchange between Tyler Robinson and his transgender lover, Lance Twiggs, sent shortly after Kirk’s assassination.

Utah County District Attorney Jeff Gray announced seven charges against Charlie Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson. They will also be seeking the death penalty.

Robinson was charged with:

– Count 1: Aggravated murder (capital offense)
– Count 2: Felony reckless discharge of a firearm causing bodily injury
– Count 3: Felony obstruction of justice for hiding the firearm
– Count 4: Felony obstruction of justice for discarding the clothing he wore during the shooting
– Count 5: Witness tampering for asking roommate to delete incriminating messages
– Count 6: Witness temperating for demanding trans roommate stay silent, and not speak to police
– Count 7: Commission of a violent offense in the presence of a child

Jeff Gray released the chilling texts between Tyler Robinson and his “love” Lance Twiggs.

Read the text exchange here:

Tyler Robinson texts with transgender lover Lance Twiggs / 1
Kirk assassin Tyler Robinson texts with transgender lover Lance Twiggs / 2

Lance Twiggs was reportedly cooperating with the FBI, however, according to the Daily Mail he has seemingly vanished.

“If [Lance Twiggs] ever comes back, it will be in a body bag,” a neighbor said to the Daily Mail. “That’s not a threat – I’m just saying that there are so many people who want a piece of him he’d be mad to show his face in public again. This was a generational event.”

The Daily Mail reported:

The Trans boyfriend of Charlie Kirk’s alleged assassin has fled their former lovenest – and locals tell the Daily Mail they never want to see him again.

Lance Twiggs, 22, was led away for questioning when police swooped on the smart three-bed condo he shared with accused gunman Tyler Robinson, 22.

Shaken neighbors say the part time plumber has not been back to the $320,000 property in St. George, Utah – one declaring: ‘Good riddance. I never want to see either of them again.’

His beaten-up Infinity compact is still parked in his space with his work gear tossed across the back seat and a sandwich wrapper and a drink on the front passenger seat.

Upstairs lights have been left on for more than a week and notes and Amazon packages are piling up outside the home owned by Twiggs’s devout Mormon family.

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