DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY
DEPARTMENT OF THE NAVY CHIEF INFORMATION OFFICE
1000 NAVY PENTAGON
WASHINGTON, DC 20350-1000
03 April 2024
MEMORANDUM FOR DISTRIBUTION
Subj: INVESTMENT HORIZONS CHARTS
Ref: (a) PEO Digital Technical Director document, Modern Service Delivery Service Groups,
version 2.6, 29 Apr 2022
(b) SECNAV memo, The Department of Navy’s Recommitment to Operation CATTLE
DRIVE, 17 Mar 2023
(c) DON CTO memo, LEVERAGING WORLD CLASS ALIGNMENT METRICS
(WAM), 7 Mar 2024
(d) Capstone Design Concept for Information Superiority, 6 Sep 2022
1. Purpose. To share information about Investment Horizons, which the DON Chief Information
Office (CIO) will use to accelerate the adoption of new capabilities and identify divestment
opportunities.
2. Background
a. Investment Horizons are an industry best practice for easily visualizing an organization’s
innovation and divestment strategy. This view allows organizations to balance the urgency
of supporting existing capabilities with the need to invest in new ones.
b. Investment Horizons offer several additional benefits. Combining Investment Horizons
charts (see template in figure 1) with execution schedules will provide the DON CIO with
a common format for technology roadmaps. The shared view of capabilities across the
systems lifecycle provided by Investment Horizons charts will also enable the research
and acquisition communities to speed the transition of solutions that adhere to Modern
Service Delivery Design Concepts (reference (a)) to enterprise services.
Figure 1
Investment Horizons Template
