Capt. Kathleen Powell, the force data officer for the Navy Reserve, said the Department of Navy’s data and analytics platform called Jupiter is helping leaders understand and use the data to drive decisions.
The Army wants industry to help it change the way it structures its data. A newly-released request for information is a key first step in building a federated, decentralized model the Army calls the Unified Data Reference Architecture.
Agencies are also considering new FOIA tools that leverage automation and machine learning, while a "FOIA wizard" is in the works.
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Through more intensely looking at data, Labor finds its can “identify things you might not have caught previously,” which can help drive changes in services and programs, CDO Scott Gibbons says.
Congress established the chief data officer role in 2018. Four years later, half of those surveyed don’t think their responsibilities are clear.
Rob Brown, the chief technology officer at USCIS in the Homeland Security Department, said the new director of UX will be responsible for research, to drive standards and governance around the application of these capabilities.
The new system is expected to roll out with 99 deployments at 123 sites worldwide over the next three years.
Kshemendra Paul, the VA's first permanent chief data officer, is leaving the agency in November to join the Energy Department as an assistant inspector general.
The Federal Aviation Administration’s long-term modernization of the national airspace (NAS) is turning that crucial network into what Chief Data Officer Natesh Manikoth calls an info-centric NAS.
“The CMS inspector report gave us a framework for how CMS will utilize its data in a variety of facets,” said Kamala Green, social drivers of health program manager at National Government Services. “It served as a much-needed switch – a real shift in focus when we take a look at how to use data.”
The General Services Administration’s inspector general released its third report or alert over the last year about the data behind the Transactional Data Reporting program.
The DoD’s CIO and its Office of Undersecretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment will remove weapons systems from the network if they are not cyber secure.
Nicole Puri, the chief risk officer at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service in the Treasury Department and the past president of the Association for Federal Enterprise Risk Management (AFERM), said the agency is managing operational risk as well as strategic risks.
Dr. David Markowitz, the Army’s chief data officer, said a streamlined and unified approach to the data platforms the service uses will enable senior leaders to make better, faster decisions.