Navy Looks to Industry to Digitize Ships

Published on February 5, 2024



ARLINGTON, Virginia — Most software aboard Navy ships is older than the sailors and less sophisticated than home gaming systems. Bridging the digital gap presents the biggest opportunity for the defense industry since the Cold War, a Navy official said.

Lt. Artem Sherbinin, chief technology officer for Task Force Hopper — established in 2021 to enable artificial intelligence and machine learning integration across the surface force — said the Navy is in the midst of what he called digital innovation and to fully realize it, the service needs to embrace software and networking approaches that are currently “changing the world.”

How software is being used today represents a “fundamental shift in how we think about traditional industry,” he said during a recent panel discussion at the Surface Navy Association’s 36th National Symposium. “Defense never caught on to this trend.”

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