Fighting increasingly dangerous wildfires falls on federal, state and local government agencies. But the Federal Chief Data Officers Council is piloting ways to use interagency data to reduce the spread and severity of wildfires. Chief…
June 1, 2022
Former HHS Chief AI Officer Oki Mek says the department has an inventory of at least 100 AI use cases across the department. But data challenges keep the agency from taking the next step on…
May 20, 2022
Nancy Morgan spent the last three years as the intelligence community’s chief data officer. In that time, the amount of information both collected and produced by intelligence agencies has grown exponentially. The IC is now…
May 4, 2022
Joel Nantais, the State Department’s chief data scientist, says the agency’s hiring initiative reflects an increasing need for data scientists and builds off the success of other recent federal hiring pilots.
April 22, 2022
The Postal Service is creating a dashboard that tracks on-time delivery data nationwide. Russ Rappel Schmid, the chief data officer for the Postal Regulatory Commission, says he’s looking to partner with USPS and its inspector…
April 6, 2022
The Chief Data Officers Council includes nearly 90 members across the federal government. CDO Council Chairman and Office of Personnel Management CDO Ted Kaouk says a CDO playbook is helping standardize some elements of the…
March 23, 2022
