Federal tech leaders are turning data into mission power.

Deliver faster. Operate smarter. Spend less. That’s the challenge echoing across federal C suites, and data modernization is central to the answer.

In our latest Federal News Network Expert Edition, leaders from across government and industry share how agencies are transforming legacy systems into mission-ready data engines:

• Alyssa Hundrup, health care director at the Government Accountability Office, urges DoD and VA to go beyond “just having agreements” to share health care services and start measuring the impact of these more than 180 agreements: “There’s more … that could really take a data-informed approach.”
• Duncan McCaskill, vice president of data at Maximus, reminds us that governance is everything: “Governance is your policy wrapper. … Data management is the execution of those rules every day. If you give AI terrible data, you’re going to get terrible results.”
• Stuart Wagner, chief data and AI officer at the Navy, calls out the risks of inconsistent classification: “If the line is unclear, they just go, ‘Well, we can’t share.’ ”
• Vice Adm. Karl Thomas, deputy chief of Naval operations for information warfare, highlights the power of AI and open architectures: “Let machines do what machines do best … so humans can make the decisions they need.”
• And from the Office of Personnel Management, a full overhaul of FedScope is underway to make federal workforce data more transparent and actionable.

In every case: Data is the mission driver.

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