The intelligence community (IC) has a data challenge — specifically overflowing streams of data — and artificial intelligence (AI) technologies could be a solution to meeting that challenge. But to leverage that solution the IC needs to format data so that it’s receptive in AI-driven solutions, a top intelligence official said today. […]

On the 21st century battlefield information is a warfighting imperative, and the U.S. military needs to enable the right tools and solutions that deliver consumable and ready-to-use data to warfighters, top military and defense leaders said on Feb. 14 at the WEST 2024 conference – co-sponsored by AFCEA International and the U.S. Naval Institute – in San Diego, Calif. […]

Two data czars from the U.S. Army talked about the service branch’s data maturation today, listing specific programs that are aiding in accelerating digital transformation to enable better decision making. […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) announced a new solicitation seeking solutions to generate synthetic data to train machine learning models.  […]

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) on Thursday unveiled its new Office of Homeland Security Statistics (OHSS), which aims to advance DHS’s statistical reporting and analysis capabilities. […]

In step with President Biden’s executive order on AI released earlier this week, the Department of Defense (DoD) is also taking steps to accelerate the adoption of agile artificial intelligence (AI) technologies, Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks told reporters during an on-camera press briefing on November 2. […]

As AI capabilities become a daily norm, officials at the Department of the Navy warn of the need to look back at legacy data while simultaneously creating clean data sets for AI tools to defend against foreign adversaries. […]

Because data is one of the Federal government’s most valuable assets and a major driver for critical decision-making across numerous Federal agencies, several agency chief data officers (CDOs) said this week they have turned to artificial intelligence (AI) and automation to power the goals of data analysis and readiness. […]

A top official from the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) said today that the Federal government is currently on track in the second phase of the Federal Data Strategy OMB released in 2020. […]

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has undertaken several widely-scoped efforts to ensure its data is accessible and shareable across the department to help make informed decisions, according to a leading data expert at the agency. […]

The Federal government needs to be proactive in shoring up its defenses in order to better ward off cyberattacks, and cybersecurity experts this week said that sharing data across organizations is a great place to start. […]

The Department of Defense’s (DoD) Mission Partner Environments (MPEs) are largely net-centric. However, as the department continues to develop MPEs, it will need to increase operational capability, requiring a paradigm shift from net-centricity to data-centricity, according to a DoD official. […]

U.S. intelligence agencies released a new data strategy today, laying the foundations for agencies like the CIA and FBI to hone their work on artificial intelligence (AI) tools over the next three years. […]

The perfect data management approach doesn’t exist, according to government experts. And because nobody’s perfect, they advised organizations to stop striving for perfection in data management and instead settle for “good enough” to reach effectiveness. […]

The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) has developed more than 1,400 recommendations for modernizing and realigning its health care infrastructure, but a new report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) is finding gaps in the data VA used to inform the recommendations. […]

There is a lot of data to go around at the Department of Defense (DoD), but one of the biggest challenges the agency faces is that not everybody has access to the data that they need, a Pentagon official said this week. […]

For several years, the Federal government has been on a digital transformation journey to deliver frictionless citizen services, enhance workforce efficiency, and empower secure innovation across agencies. […]

The U.S. Department of the Army has emphasized the importance of aggregating data into a virtualized and centralized capability to meet mission imperatives and the needs of its civilian and military workforce, according to an agency official. […]

The Veterans Health Administration (VHA) can provide better care to its nine million patients by leveraging data that oversees staff onboarding and helps ensure that only qualified clinical staff provide care to veterans, a Feb. 24 report from the Government Accountability Office (GAO) says. […]

The role that data plays in meeting the demands of the Biden administration’s agenda for enhanced diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility (DEIA) policies is substantial, but only part of the picture, Federal experts said during a Feb. 21 GovLoop webinar. […]

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is requesting public input on how to improve the collection, use, and transparency of criminal justice data at the state, local, Tribal, and territorial (SLTT) level. […]

The director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) said today that the agency is facing challenges when it comes to overload in data – a situation that he described as only the “tip of the iceberg” – and suggested that’s where artificial intelligence needs to come into play as a solution. […]

As the first month of the new year rolls by, the White House’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) is loading up on new hires. […]

The Biden-Harris administration is following through on its promise to advance equality for the LGBTQI+ community with the release of a formal framework to ensure better data collection of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, and Intersex individuals. […]

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is striving to use data to support its health equity efforts, agency officials said today at the AFCEA Bethesda Health IT Summit. […]

The White House on Dec. 28 released the U.S. Government’s Fifth Open Government National Action Plan which aims to advance a more accountable government and increase the public’s access to data. […]

Amid the recent rush at the Federal and state levels to ban or curtail use of the China-based TikTok social media app, at least one U.S. senator says that those actions would not be sufficient to prevent China interests from accessing personal data on United States citizens. […]

A top data expert at the Defense Department (DoD) said during a Nov. 30 ATARC event that the agency is leveraging Advana – a big data platform – to inform decision making more rapidly, but the department still finds itself forced to jump hurdles when it comes to data-ops. […]

A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report stated that while the Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) efforts to address technology transfer risks at universities are underway, there is more the agency can do to improve the related data.  […]

NOAA Fisheries, an office of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), is leveraging technology to more easily combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, with the aim of protecting ocean ecosystems and sustainable fisheries. […]