The new federal decision calculus
Pause for a moment and consider how much federal IT has changed — often quickly and significantly. Take this opportunity to confirm your organization is keeping pace. You likely put thoughtful plans in place — strategy, acquisition approaches, governance, organizational readiness and architecture — but the technology landscape and the current administration’s priorities may have shifted since then. Now is a good time to revisit and realign those plans to today’s opportunities.
What hasn’t changed?
Most federal agencies began their data modernization journey motivated by the desire to meet requirements in the Evidence Act and become an evidence-based agency. They started with a commitment to create business intelligence insights, support machine learning for predictive analytics and fraud detection and share data safely and securely across the workforce. They did this all for their mission, including supporting interagency policy objectives, across the military services and to support the DATA Act’s objectives. Many agencies began to consider or adopt cloud data platforms to provide scalable, secure access to data to meet these needs and developed data strategies and data governance approaches to improve data quality, discovery and availability.
