Across the federal government mission landscape, I see a central challenge: how do agencies take full advantage of their data to enhance decision velocity and quality to advance their missions?
The world faces many complex threats today. Some of them, like the climate crisis, are existential in nature. To steer the nation through this perilous time, federal agencies need to be able to leverage the entirety of the data at their disposal to deliver on their missions now and into the future.
Agencies and other stakeholders are rising to the challenge by aligning on technology-supported, science-backed solutions. The data we need to understand the world鈥檚 most critical challenges is out there but is often fragmented and locked in siloes or structured in formats and taxonomies that make it challenging to integrate. It must be liberated, collected, integrated, shared, understood, and put to use to deliver better mission outcomes for people and communities. Increasingly, that鈥檚 what鈥檚 happening, despite the many technical, operational, and cultural challenges that must be resolved along the way.
The path toward fully data-enabled missions is clarifying, and progress is accelerating in the right direction. Now it鈥檚 time to put everything we鈥檝e learned into practice and take the steps that we know are necessary to fully leverage the world鈥檚 data toward achieving the missions that matter most.听