Ted Kaouk

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OPM looking to take agencies’ data innovations governmentwide

After releasing a new data strategy in May, the Office of Personnel Management is looking for innovative agency ideas to take to scale.

Management

OPM data strategy outlines plan to ‘rebuild and empower’ federal workforce

All About Data

White House touts CDO Council as ‘game changer’ for meeting equity, CX goals

Big Data

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CDO Council sees ‘unique opportunity’ to elevate data talent across government

All About Data

CDO Council gets tips on how to recruit talent, share data across agencies

Big Data

Federal Data Strategy 2021 action plan sets cross-agency goals on AI, upskilling workforce

Big Data

CDO Council sees administration’s equity goals increase demand for data

Big Data

First Look

USDA Chief Data Officer Ted Kaouk moving to OPM in October

People

Who is a CDO’s boss? Survey finds mixed role in agency hierarchy

Big Data

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CDO Council looks to ‘blend data’ across agencies to maximize value

Big Data

COVID-19 created huge demand for data, but USDA came prepared

Big Data

USDA stands up 500 data dashboards from executive brainstorming

Nearly a year into the Trump administration’s Federal Data Strategy, agencies have taken big steps in making data analytics the foundation for executive…

Big Data

Pension Benefits Guaranty Corporation inspector general

PRAC builds data transparency to create ‘citizen watchdogs’ for pandemic fraud

The Pandemic Response Accountability Committee oversees a bailout about three times as large as what Congress spent on the 2008 recession, but also benefits…

Agency Oversight

In this Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, photograph, monitors check their screens in the Governor's Office of Information Technology in downtown Denver. Some cybersecurity professionals are concerned that insurance policies designed to limit the damage of ransomware attacks might actually be encouraging hackers. “We don’t know what that ransom payment is going to fund,” said Brandi Simmons, a spokeswoman for the office. “As a state government, we don’t want to be in a position of funding cyberterrorists.” (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Ensuring the federal IT workforce of the future

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Chief Information Officers Council says government needs a new pay and personnel system to better recruit and compensate the future federal IT workforce.