Kirsten Moncada, OPM’s chief privacy officer, says the rise of AI tools will create more work for privacy officials across the government.

The Agriculture Department is on a mission to make its workforce more data savvy. That’s a key focus of its Data Science Training Program and its new department-wide data strategy. For more, we hear from USDA’s Deputy Chief Data Officer Fredy Diaz and the CDO for the Food and Nutrition Service Chris Rottler.  

Commerce Chief Data Officer Oliver Wise says the department expects to release the strategy in fall 2024, which will focus on five “cross-bureau” priority areas for data maturity.

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.

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.

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.”

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. 

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.

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...

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

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...

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. 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.

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.

The Defense Department is looking at a 2025 deadline to make better use of artificial intelligence. To meet that goal, the Air Force and Space Force are looking to upskill airmen and guardians to better understand and work with this emerging tech. The Department of the Air Force is also working with the private sector and academia on projects to better use of DOD data needed to power AI algorithms. For more on all of this Federal News Network’s Jory Heckman spoke with the department’s Chief...

Agencies are swinging for the fences with high-impact use cases for AI. Bonnie Evangelista, the Tradewind execution lead within the Defense Department's Chief Digital and AI Office, talks about how DoD is using artificial intelligence to help it write contracts. Later, Meikle Paschal, program manager for RPA at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, talks about USCIS's plans to roll out un-attended bots.

It's a double feature this week! First, we'll hear from a panel of federal experts about the state of their health care data since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Later, you'll hear how the Office of Personnel Management plans to hire the next generation of tech talent in government - data experts included.

The Small Business Administration is bringing all its certification and loan programs onto a unified digital platform called MySBA. Larry Stubblefield, the deputy associate administrator of SBA’s Office of Government Contracting & Business Development, says bringing this data onto a single platform will improve customer experience.