By Lauren C. Williams The Navy's CIO wants to accelerate the shutdown of duplicative IT systems, networks and applications, according to a recent memo. "The Department of the Navy maintains an excessive number of information technology systems, networks, and applications in an overly complex architecture, which affects the Department's ability to transform operations and remain agile in responding to and gaining a competitive edge over our adversaries," the Navy said in the Dec. 2 memo's opening line. "This situation is unacceptable and must not continue." The goal for what's being called...