Bray: Navy must speed up prototype integration

The science and technology community must communicate more effectively with Navy program offices to speed prototype integration, according to a service official.

William Bray, the deputy assistant secretary of the Navy for research, development, testing and evaluation, who took up his post less than two months ago, said integration is difficult if program offices are not prepared in advance to receive those prototypes.

"If a component needs to go into a program -- prototyping a specific piece of hardware -- you have to be able to connect that piece to where it needs to land," Bray told attendees at an open architecture summit in Washington.

"If the program office is not there to land it and integrate it, or is not prepared or doesn’t have an open system to do that, it's going to be very hard to integrate," he said.