Big Data

Eric Ueland, the deputy director for management at OMB, said Circular A-123 now lets agencies customize how they implement an enterprise risk system.

“Privacy is about your ability to control what information you are making available to whom for what reason,” Bethanne Barnes said.

Michael Thomas, director of ISOO, says AI poses plenty of challenges, but could also address longstanding challenges with controlled unclassified information.

“The tendency is to continue to do things the way we did before because that’s how law, policy and culture are aligned in agencies,” said Dan Chenok.

“This is not the first time that this type of crowdsourcing has ultimately come about through release of federal data sets,” John Barry said.

How are ZTA and similar initiatives strategic enablers of mission success?

Trust and transparency in data are a must to ensure the Pentagon deploys AI capabilities that deliver joint force strategic value, the Salesforce expert says.

The latest reports from agency chief FOIA officers illustrate how the Trump administration’s workforce cuts drove another increase in FOIA backlogs.

John Whippen of Snowflake and Sam Bays of Deloitte explain how state and local organizations can create better citizen services by using data more effectively.

SSA’s inspector general informed the leadership of four congressional committees that it was launching the probe after receiving an anonymous complaint.

Kim Brandt, CMS’s chief operating officer and deputy administrator, said AI tools are helping the agency stop money from going out the door to fraudsters.

Marines Corps Lt. Gen. Jay Bargeron said getting its amphibious groups to an 80% readiness rate up from about 50% is a top priority.

“It’s more than just failure to pay and the failure to file — it’s correcting past affirmative misstatements to the IRS as well,” Tino Lisella said.

A new report on modernizing the Privacy Act recommends Congress take action to rein in how agencies buy personal information from private data brokers.