All About Data

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

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.

The intelligence community has a new data strategy. The2023-2025 IC Data Strategylays 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.

The State Department's former Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, a career diplomat with more than 30 years of experience, touts the success of the department building out its data expertise to better address DEIA and workforce issues.

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 Coursera CEO Jeff Maggioncalda discuss the future of training in the defense community.

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 team at the State Department’s Center for Analytics, has the details.

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 Guard -Luke Douglas - Chief Data Officer, Peace Corps -Elizabeth Puchek - Chief Data Officer, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services -Lt. Cmdr. Timothy Beach - Command Data Officer, Program Executive of Integrated Warfare System, Department of Navy

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 Beliveau, chief of Advanced Enterprise Analytics at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office and Suman Shukla, the data management section head of the Product Management Division of the U.S. Copyright Office.

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.

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. Bureau Commissioner Tim Gribben outlines the bureau's latest progress on its data initiatives.