Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, bemoaning the lack of “risk tolerance” in technological development, is directing the service to send him recommendations to increase funding for fleet experimentation in fiscal year 2016 and beyond, according to a recent memo. “Since [FY-09], significant funding reductions have increased the emphasis on risk mitigation in fleet experimentation,” he wrote in an Oct. 15 memo . “This lack of risk tolerance reduces the effectiveness of experimentation in creating innovative outcomes while driving out low barrier-to-entry...
