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Pentagon Releases New Enterprise-Wide Data Strategy

By Matthew Beinart

Thursday, October 8th, 2020

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Pentagon Releases New Enterprise-Wide Data Strategy

Aerial of the Pentagon, the Department of Defense headquarters in Arlington, Virginia, near Washington DC, with I-395 freeway on the left, and the Air Force Memorial up middle.

The Pentagon on Thursday released its first enterprise-wide data strategy that aims to set a new course for capabilities and standards to better manage massive amounts of data needed to enable future joint all-domain operations. The new strategy has been in development for over a year and lays out specific goals for going after cloud-enabled data architectures, improving use of data for training AI algorithms and a new approach to recognizing data “as a strategic asset.” Dave Spirk, DoD’s chief…

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