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Steven Burke, of the Council of Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, said one of the ways to overcome those challenges is with good business relationships among government customers and external data owners.
Read moreThe Digital Investigations Branch in HHS’ Office of Inspector General has a team of highly skilled digital investigators to collect and analyze electronically stored information to support criminal investigations.
For David Case, deputy inspector general at the Department of Veterans Affairs, investigations are a mix of sifting through documents and machine-generated data, and talking to individuals.
Data is a blessing and a curse, but some entities are using it successfully, and changing their approach.
Among the most ubiquitous of federal agency activities are investigations. The term brings to mind law enforcement agencies, of course, such as the FBI or the IRS criminal division. Thought of more broadly, investigations also include oversight activities by inspectors general or the Government Accountability Office, program examinations by analysts or congressional staffers, and casework by agencies as diverse as the Merit Systems Protection Board or the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
The Defense Department’s criminal investigations always had the goal of evidence data, but the traditional methods of investigation are now merging new forms of data analysis. The Naval Criminal Investigation Service (NCIS) sees several changes ahead as a result.
David Cattler, a longtime intelligence official, sees a range of both near- and long-term priorities in his new role as director at DCSA.
A new audit looks at how one agency within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) manages its cloud computing assets.
NIST says the new updates are the result of data collection, technical analyses, customer interaction, redesign and development of the security requirements.
The White House has given agencies until the end of the year to make sure their use of artificial intelligence is safe and fair.
TSA Administrator David Pekoske also says the agency wants to hire more security screeners so the workforce can have more flexibilities.
Government agencies are continually looking at new technologies that can impact mission priorities and enhance service delivery.
David Lebryk, the fiscal assistant secretary at the Treasury Department, said a new machine learning tool is reducing the chance of fraud from paper checks.
A CYBERCOM acquisition leader says she doesn’t want the command’s burgeoning buying program to be ‘stodgy and antiquated.’