The Defense Acquisition University (DAU) is on a mission to train more than 3,000 military and civilian professionals in data analytics and AI skills. David Pearson, the director of DAU’s Engineering and Technology Center, and…
June 14, 2023
Bureaus and offices across the State Department are looking for data scientists to join the federal workforce and lead its emerging “data science for diplomacy” initiatives. Farakh Khan, division director for the communications, culture and training…
May 17, 2023
On this episode, we present a Federal News Network-moderated panel of agency chief data officers at ATARC’s GITEC Summit in Annapolis, Maryland. The panel includes: -Capt. Brian Erickson -Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Officer, Coast…
May 3, 2023
The rise of generative AI tools like ChatGPT raises new questions about how to regulate it. At a recent ATARC panel, hear from Chakib Chraibi, chief data scientist at the National Technical Information Service, Scott…
April 19, 2023
Rachel Wang, the State Department’s first chief data officer at the Bureau of Diplomatic Security, outlines priorities for her new office, as the department is launching CDO offices across all its bureaus.
April 5, 2023
The Treasury Department’s Bureau of the Fiscal Service is looking to modernize the way the federal government does business — and giving agencies a status update on its goals through the end of the decade.…
March 22, 2023
The Defense Department is looking at a 2025 deadline to make better use of artificial intelligence. To meet that goal, the Air Force and Space Force are looking to upskill airmen and guardians to better…
March 8, 2023
Agencies are swinging for the fences with high-impact use cases for AI. Bonnie Evangelista, the Tradewind execution lead within the Defense Department’s Chief Digital and AI Office, talks about how DoD is using artificial intelligence…
March 6, 2023
It’s a double feature this week! First, we’ll hear from a panel of federal experts about the state of their health care data since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Later, you’ll hear how the…
February 8, 2023
The Small Business Administration is bringing all its certification and loan programs onto a unified digital platform called MySBA. Larry Stubblefield, the deputy associate administrator of SBA’s Office of Government Contracting & Business Development, says…
January 25, 2023
Thomas Beach, FDA’s associate director for data governance, said the agency is looking to create a master data management system that will help the agency “understand what we’re doing in terms of common efforts to…
January 11, 2023
Data and evidence are increasingly driving decisions across the federal government. That’s based on nearly a decade of scorecards issued by the nonprofit Results for America. For insights into the latest scorecard, Vice President for…
December 14, 2022
A panel of federal data experts at ATARC’s Data and AI Summit tell Federal News Network how data maturity efforts at their agencies have sped up the “time to market” getting the right data to…
November 30, 2022
Chris Cleary, principal cyber advisor for the Department of the Navy, and Retired Col. Michael Anderson, chief strategist for Informatica Public Sector, say the data pillar of an agency’s zero trust strategy should serve as…
November 16, 2022
