Border mission drives joint data sharing: Army Data Chief
The Army has “evolved” its networks to better support US Northern Command in ways that it sees as a model for other theaters worldwide, CDAO David Markowitz told Breaking Defense.
Army’s chief data officer outlines plan for new hierarchy of ‘data stewards’
The service’s new policy empowers “mission area data officers” for warfighting, intelligence, business operations, and enterprise IT, as well as institutionalizing what have been “ad hoc” data duties across the service, David Markowitz told Breaking Defense.
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Army aims to democratize data with ADP 2.0 – but how will the contract work?
Ordinary soldiers and civil servants have used the Army Data Platform to build thousands of data analytics. Now the service wants to scale up ADP’s success — but that will take a new way of doing business, said chief data officer David Markowitz.
Army sending additional ‘data stewards’ to commands, defining data roles
The Army first put out guidance two years ago on the idea of creating “data stewards” for its commands who would act as “kind of our spokesman for our supply side,” and will start codifying it in fiscal 2024, David Markowitz told Breaking Defense.
Don’t Share ALL The Data: Army CDO
A single Army command, HRC, tracks more than 800,000 data elements, the service’s new Chief Data Officer says. If you try to share all your data without setting clear priorities, the network will choke on it – especially in frontline units, where getting the right data can be life or death.
Army Explores Anti-Ship Howitzers & Anti-Air Strykers
ARLINGTON: New threats from Russia and China mean the Army must take on new missions — but it’s got almost no new money so the Army is looking at ways to modify existing systems to do some radically new things. So imagine howitzers firing precision-guided cannon shells to shoot cruise missiles out of the sky or to sink […]
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