The concept, design, and instantiation of a Next Generation Navy Cash system represents a clear opportunity for the DoD and Navy to leverage and intelligently apply advances in cardless technologies, future Navy shipboard Open Architecture (OA) processing and network infrastructures, and the account-based cashless financial transaction model. Objective research, investigation, and review of these technologies individually, and in the aggregate, presents an excellent opportunity to address key Navy Cash Next Generation objectives: « Reduce Navy Cash Total Ownership Cost (TOC) « Adoption of a superior cardless technology « Provide significant qualify of life improvement for the sailor. Rite-Solutions¡¦ direct experience with OA systems, robust commercial account-based cashless transaction systems, future DoD/Navy shipboard architectures, and our related experience in Human System Integration (HSI), financial transaction security, and Information Assurance (IA) domains provides a unique and innovative view into next generation Navy Cash issues and opportunities.
Keywords: Cashless, Cashless, Canes, Open Architecture, Total Ownership Cost, Account-Based, Human Systems Integration, Service Oriented Architectures, Biometrics
