All About Data

NASA's Artemis mission will bring U.S. astronauts back to the moon's surface more than 50 years after its last trip, the 1972 Apollo 17 mission. The agency expects a crewed moon landing mission will occur in 2025. NASA Chief Data Officer David Salvagnini said the Artemis mission depends on the agency's wealth of scientific data — including data from the Apollo missions more than a half-century ago.

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Here's an excerpt from a Federal News Network-moderated panel at the Data Foundation’s govDatax Summit. You'll hear from Oliver Wise, chief data officer at the Commerce Department and Eileen Vidrine, the chief data and AI Officer at the Department of the Air Force.

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Agency leaders outline the challenges and opportunities of AI. Department of Homeland Security's Undersecretary for Policy Rob Silvers says DHS IS looking to become one of the “early and aggressive adopters” of AI tools. Col. John Agnello, the director of information advantage, for the Army’s Cyber Center of Excellence says the service is looking at the potential of AI to make critical decisions “better, faster, cheaper.”

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This episode features a Federal News Network-moderated panel at AFCEA NOVA’s Navy IT Day earlier this month. We hear from Deputy Data Officer at the Office of Chief of Naval Operations Nathan Hagan and Acting Department of the Navy Chief Data Officer Duncan McCaskill. 

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Gil Alterovitz, director of the VA’s National Artificial Intelligence Institute (NAII) highlights some of the key takeaways from the VA's recent summit on AI in health care.

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The Postal Regulatory Commission plans to build up its data capabilities. But it’s not getting everything it asked for in its fiscal 2024 budget request, now that the Postal Service approves its budget, not Congress. Here to tell his side of the story is the Postal Regulatory Commission’s Chairman Michael Kubayanda. 

"One of my particular goals, through the budget process, is for better technology and data infrastructure. I think in the long run, that'll make us more efficient as a micro-agency," Kubayanda said.

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Eric Stein, the State Department’s deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Global Information, is looking at ways to use emerging technology to improve FOIA processing governmentwide

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A panel of agency CDOs and data experts go deep on the challenges and opportunities of artificial intelligence in the federal government. Federal News Network moderated this discussion at an ATARC AI summit earlier this month. You'll hear from:

-Brien Lorenze, chief data officer, Pandemic Response Accountability Committee

-Heather Martin, acting director, Office of Plans, Programs, and Strategies, Directorate for Data and Digital Innovation, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency

-Damian Kostiuk, deputy CDO, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services

-Chakib Chraibi, chief data scientist, National Technical Information Service

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Several agencies behind the Joint Financial Management and Improvement Program (JFMIP) are releasing a Payment Integrity Plan this fall. For a preview, we hear from the Treasury Department’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for Accounting Policy and Financial Transparency Renata Miskell.

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The intelligence community has a new data strategy. The 2023-2025 IC Data Strategy lays out the steps all 18 intelligence agencies will take to develop a more data-savvy workforce, and set the groundwork for the IC to use artificial intelligence tools.

For an update on the early implementation of the strategy and how the new document came together, I sat down with Lori Wade, the IC’s chief data officer, along with my colleague and host of Inside the IC, Justin Doubleday.

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