Navy CIO 2021 priorities: Don’t return to pre-COVID IT practices January 13 The Navy CIO doesn t want the service to fall back into pre-pandemic IT habits. (MC2 Kaila V. Peters/Navy) WASHINGTON In 2020, the year marked by telework due to COVID-19, the U.S. Navy learned that it could move rapidly on IT projects. The service doubled its bandwidth in weeks. It built two new sites for its virtual private networks. It quadrupled its telework capacity. After the service did in weeks what Navy Chief Information Officer Aaron Weis said would normally take years, he wants to ensure that the Navy doesn’t revert to pre-pandemic IT practices that it cast off to enable telework for the service in response to COVID-19.