The Defense Department unveiled a new data strategy Thursday aimed at transforming the Pentagon into a data-centric organization.
The 11-page document is DOD’s first enterprisewide data strategy. It describes the broad vision for what good data management should look like across the Pentagon. Dana Deasy, the department’s chief information officer, said in a press release the strategy is a key component of the Pentagon's digital modernization effort.
“The National Defense Strategy directed us to be more lethal, efficient, and interoperable with partners,” Deasy said in the statement. “This strategy is our first step to making that ammo persistently available to the men and women of the DOD regardless of echelon or geographic location.”
Deputy Secretary of Defense David Norquist, in the foreword to the strategy, said the success of DOD’s efforts to adopt technologies like artificial intelligence and 5G depends on data.
“Our ability to fight and win wars requires that we become world leaders in mastering data management at speed and scale,” Norquist wrote.
Though light on specific details regarding how implementation across the department will work, the strategy declares seven goals: make data visible, accessible, understandable, linked, trustworthy, interoperable and secure. It also lists eight guiding principles and four essential capabilities—architecture, talent and culture, standards and governance—needed to achieve these goals.
The DOD chief data officer council will serve as the primary governance authority for data management efforts as well as serve as a centralized body for data leaders across the department to collaborate. The CIO will be responsible for ensuring work around data aligns with DOD’s digital modernization program.
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