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Navy Secretary John C. Phelan has tapped new Navy Under Secretary Hung Cao to lead a sweeping overhaul of the service and “supercharge the Navy and Marine Corps,” including modernizing its business and IT systems.

Cao, sworn in Oct. 3. by Secretary of War Pete Hegseth, returns to the Department of the Navy with direct orders to “cut red tape and raise standards.”

Phelan said in a memo shared exclusively to Fox News Digital that the reforms are to “sharpen readiness, fix faster, and put sailors, Marines, and their families first” as well as restore the Navy and Marine Corps’ warrior ethos.

Cao, a former U.S. Navy captain, is also a well-known Republican figure, who ran for the U.S. Senate in Virginia in 2024 and in 2025, was nominated by Trump

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