The Pentagon has cleared the Navy's Consolidated Afloat Networks and Enterprise Services program for full-rate production, according to an acquisition decision memorandum signed last week. The ADM was issued in lieu of a milestone C Defense Acquisition Board meeting that was scheduled for Dec. 21, according to the document, marked "for official use only" and obtained by Inside the Navy . CANES serves as the hardware and software infrastructure for numerous hosted and connected systems on board ships. Program officials...
