As the federal government prepares to begin a new calendar year—with funding and everything—the administration released a set of 20 actions agencies will be required to take in 2020 around how they collect, manage, share and use all the data they collect.
Monday, the Office of Management and Budget released the final version of the first-year action plan for the new Federal Data Strategy. While the Data Strategy looks at how the government will use data over the next decade, the 2020 Action Plan—formerly the Year One Action Plan—is the starting block, including 20 specific deliverables tagged to individual agencies, agency teams or spanning governmentwide.
“Fully implementing the 40 practices described in the strategy will require a sustained, iterative, and systematic effort over a 10-year period,” the plan reads. “The Action Plans produced each year will identify priority actions for a given year and incrementally build on progress from year to year, capitalizing on the successes of previous efforts, aligning with ongoing federal government programs and policies, and complementing new statutory requirements.”
OMB released a draft action plan in June along with the finalized elements of the long-term strategy. The draft plan included 16 actions, all of which were forwarded to the final action plan, though some have been tweaked. Along with some alterations on the existing action items, the data strategy team added four more actions, as well:
Agency Action 6: Publish and update data inventories.
Community of Practice Action 7: Launch a Federal Chief Data Officer Council.
Shared Solution Action 19: Develop data quality measuring and reporting guidance.
Shared Solution Action 20: Develop a data standards repository.
Beyond the additional actions, the plan was touched up in several place ..
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