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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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President Trump Taps Dr. Ben Carson for New Role — A HUGE Win for America First Agenda

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Dr. Ben Carson is the newest member of the Trump administration.

On Wednesday, former Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, Ben Carson, was sworn in as the national adviser for nutrition, health, and housing at the U.S. Department of Agriculture.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins shared that Carson’s role will be to oversee Trump’s new Big Beautiful Bill law, which aims to ensure Americans’ quality of life, from nutrition to stable housing.

After being sworn in, Carson shared, “Today, too many Americans are suffering from the effects of poor nutrition. Through common-sense policymaking, we have an opportunity to give our most vulnerable families the tools they need to flourish.”

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Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced that Dr. Benjamin S. Carson, Sr., M.D., was sworn in as the National Advisor for Nutrition, Health, and Housing at the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA).

“There is no one more qualified than Dr. Carson to advise on policies that improve Americans’ everyday quality of life, from nutrition to healthcare quality to ensuring families have access to safe and stable housing,” said Secretary Rollins.

“With six in ten Americans living with at least one chronic disease, and rural communities facing unique challenges with respect to adequate housing, Dr. Carson’s insight and experience is critical. Dr. Carson will be crucial to implementing the rural health investment provisions of the One Big Beautiful Bill and advise on America First polices related to nutrition, health, and housing.

“As the U.S. Secretary of Housing and Urban Development in the first Trump Administration, Dr. Carson worked to expand opportunity and strengthen communities, and we are honored to welcome him to the second Trump Administration to help lead our efforts here at USDA to Make America Healthy Again and ensure rural America continues to prosper.”

“Today, too many Americans are suffering from the effects of poor nutrition. Through common-sense policymaking, we have an opportunity to give our most vulnerable families the tools they need to flourish,” said Dr. Ben Carson. “I am honored to work with Secretary Rollins on these important initiatives to help fulfill President Trump’s vision for a healthier, stronger America.”

On Sunday, Dr. Carson was one of the many speakers at the memorial service of the late TPUSA founder Charlie Kirk.

During the memorial service, Carson highlighted that Kirk was shot at 12:24 p.m. and then continued to share the Bible verse John 12:24, which reads, “Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except a corn of wheat fall into the ground and die, it abideth alone: but if it die, it bringeth forth much fruit.”

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LEAKED MEMO: Deep State Prosecutors in the Eastern District of Virginia Claim There Isn’t Enough Evidence to Convict Comey Amid Reports of Imminent Indictment

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On Wednesday evening, disgruntled officials in the Eastern District of Virginia leaked contents of a memo explaining why charges should not be brought against James Comey.

As reported earlier, former FBI Director James Comey is expected to be indicted in the Eastern District of Virginia in the next few days.

Comey will reportedly be charged for lying to Congress in a 2020 testimony about whether he authorized leaks to the media.

Officials in the Eastern District of Virginia are still fighting to stop Comey from being charged after Trump fired US Attorney Erik Siebert.

President Trump last week fired Erik Siebert as the US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia because he refused to bring charges against Letitia James, Comey, Schiff and others.

On Saturday evening, President Trump announced that he had appointed Lindsey Halligan – his personal attorney who defended him against the Mar-a-Lago raid – as US Attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia.

Now, with just days to go before the statute of limitations runs out to charge Comey for lying during a September 30, 2020 testimony, Lindsey Halligan is reportedly gearing up to indict Comey.

Prosecutors reportedly gave newly sworn-in Halligan a memo defending James Comey and explaining why charges should not brought against the fired FBI Director.

Per MSNBC’s Ken Dilanian:

Two sources familiar with the matter tell me prosecutors in the EDVA US attorney‘s office presented newly sworn US attorney Lindsey Halligan with a memo explaining why charges should not be brought against James Comey, because there isn’t enough evidence to establish probable cause a crime was committed, let alone enough to convince a jury to convict him.

Justice Department guidelines say a case should not be brought unless prosecutors believe it’s more likely than not that they can win a conviction beyond a reasonable doubt.

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Nearly 8 in 10 Voters Say the United States is in Political Crisis After the Assassination of Charlie Kirk

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Nearly eight in ten voters believe that the United States is in a political crisis in the wake of the assassination of conservative icon Charlie Kirk.

According to a Quinnipiac University national poll of registered voters released on Wednesday, a massive 93 percent of Democrats, 84 percent of independents, and 60 percent of Republicans said the nation is in a political crisis.

“The Kirk assassination lays bare raw, bipartisan concerns about where the country is headed,” Quinnipiac University Polling Analyst Tim Malloy said of the poll results.

Quinnipiac reports:

Seventy-one percent of voters think politically motivated violence in the United States today is a very serious problem, 22 percent think it is a somewhat serious problem, 3 percent think it is a not so serious problem, and 1 percent think it is not a problem at all.

This is a jump from Quinnipiac University’s June 26 poll when 54 percent thought politically motivated violence in the United States today was a very serious problem, 37 percent thought it was a somewhat serious problem, 6 percent thought it was a not so serious problem, and 2 percent thought it was not a problem at all.

Nearly 6 in 10 voters (58 percent) think it will not be possible to lower the temperature on political rhetoric and speech in the United States, while 34 percent think it will be possible.

Over half, 54 percent, of voters believe the US will see increased political violence over the next few years. Another 27 percent said they think it will stay “about the same,” while just 14 percent believe it will ease.

A 53 percent majority also said they are “pessimistic about freedom of speech being protected in the United States.”

Surprisingly, a 53 percent majority also believes the current system of democracy is not working.

“From a perceived assault on freedom of speech to the fragility of the democracy, a shudder of concern and pessimism rattles a broad swath of the electorate. Nearly 80 percent of registered voters feel they are witnessing a political crisis, seven in ten say political violence is a very serious problem, and a majority say this discord won’t go away anytime soon,” Malloy added.

The vast majority, 82 percent, said the way that people discuss politics is contributing to the violence.

“When asked if political discourse is contributing to violence, a rare meeting of the minds…Republicans, Democrats, and independents in equal numbers say yes, it is,” Malloy said.

The survey was conducted from September 18 to 21 among 1,276 registered voters with a margin of error of +/- 3.3 percentage points.

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