Vice Adm. Tom Moore has listed “cyber” as a top priority for Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) since assuming command four years ago, but despite the emphasis, the organization hadn’t found a way to define and pursue cyber and digital issues in any kind of unified way.

Even after nudging from former Chief of Naval Operations Adm. John Richardson to get after digital transformation, Moore found that NAVSEA’s chief information office was handling shipboard network issues one way, program executive offices were working on their own software packages and cyber defenses for combat systems and radars, and NAVSEA’s naval systems engineering directorate (SEA 05) was doing its own pilot programs with digital twins and data analytics.

“We had all this going on and it was a series of pilots. And so last year as I surveyed the landscape, I was happy that we had made some progress, but it became pretty clear to me that there wasn’t one single accountable person for this,” Moore told USNI News in a May 20 phone interview.
“Some of that was okay initially because I think we needed to start with a lot of pilot projects because we didn’t know what we wanted, and so we…

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