diff --git a/_config.yml b/_config.yml index 846a0b97..c624b631 100644 --- a/_config.yml +++ b/_config.yml @@ -89,14 +89,14 @@ primary_navigation: url: "/council-members/" - name: Working Groups & Committees children: - - name: Data Ethics - url: "/data-ethics-and-equity/" + - name: Business of Data + url: "/business-of-data/" + - name: Data Culture for the Workforce + url: "/data-culture-for-the-workforce/" - name: Data Inventory url: "/data-inventory/" - name: Data Sharing url: "/data-sharing/" - - name: Data Skills - url: "/data-skills/" - name: Large Agency Committee url: "/large-agency/" - name: Small Agency Committee @@ -129,24 +129,24 @@ secondary_navigation: number_of_icons: 6 homepage_icons: - - name: Data Sharing - logo: /assets/images/logos/data-sharing.png - url: /data-sharing/ + - name: Business of Data + logo: /assets/images/logos/justice.svg + url: /business-of-data/ + - name: Data Culture for the Workforce + logo: /assets/images/logos/data.svg + url: /data-culture-for-the-workforce/ - name: Data Inventory logo: /assets/images/logos/data-inventory.png url: /data-inventory/ - - name: Data Skills - logo: /assets/images/logos/data.svg - url: /data-skills/ + - name: Data Sharing + logo: /assets/images/logos/data-sharing.png + url: /data-sharing/ - name: Large Agency Committee logo: /assets/images/logos/group-line.svg url: /large-agency/ - name: Small Agency Committee logo: /assets/images/logos/group.svg url: /small-agency/ - - name: Data Ethics and Equity - logo: /assets/images/logos/justice.svg - url: /data-ethics-and-equity/ # Search.gov configuration @@ -259,6 +259,7 @@ exclude: - Gemfile.lock - docker-compose.yml - member_archive/ + - _unpublished autoprefixer: browsers: diff --git a/_exec-members/2-mancini-dominic.md b/_exec-members/0-mancini-dominic.md similarity index 100% rename from _exec-members/2-mancini-dominic.md rename to _exec-members/0-mancini-dominic.md diff --git a/_exec-members/myklegard-drew.md b/_exec-members/1-myklegard-drew.md similarity index 89% rename from _exec-members/myklegard-drew.md rename to _exec-members/1-myklegard-drew.md index 5fa1f716..0307e467 100644 --- a/_exec-members/myklegard-drew.md +++ b/_exec-members/1-myklegard-drew.md @@ -6,6 +6,8 @@ bio-image-alt-text: Drew Myklegard layout: bio permalink: /bio/myklegard-drew/ name: Drew Myklegard +first-name: Drew +last-name: Myklegard department: Office of Management and Budget job-title: Deputy, Office of the Federal Chief Information Officer (OFCIO) stick-top: true diff --git a/_exec-members/alvares-christopher.md b/_exec-members/2-alvares-christopher.md similarity index 97% rename from _exec-members/alvares-christopher.md rename to _exec-members/2-alvares-christopher.md index 474a67d9..c3a4dc7a 100644 --- a/_exec-members/alvares-christopher.md +++ b/_exec-members/2-alvares-christopher.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ permalink: /bio/alvares-christopher/ name : Christopher Alvares department: United States Department of Agriculture job-title: Chief Data Officer -role: Data Skills and Workforce Development Working Group +role: Data Culture for the Workforce Working Group stick-top: false --- diff --git a/_exec-members/mahnaz-dean.md b/_exec-members/3-mahnaz-dean.md similarity index 100% rename from _exec-members/mahnaz-dean.md rename to _exec-members/3-mahnaz-dean.md diff --git a/_exec-members/essene-ren.md b/_exec-members/4-essene-ren.md similarity index 99% rename from _exec-members/essene-ren.md rename to _exec-members/4-essene-ren.md index 17f92e15..2184c282 100644 --- a/_exec-members/essene-ren.md +++ b/_exec-members/4-essene-ren.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ permalink: /bio/essene-ren/ name : Ren Essene department: Consumer Financial Protection Bureau job-title: Chief Data Officer -stick-top: true +stick-top: false role: --- diff --git a/_exec-members/9-gerig-austin.md b/_exec-members/5-gerig-austin.md similarity index 100% rename from _exec-members/9-gerig-austin.md rename to _exec-members/5-gerig-austin.md diff --git a/_exec-members/10-morgan-dan.md b/_exec-members/6-morgan-dan.md similarity index 96% rename from _exec-members/10-morgan-dan.md rename to _exec-members/6-morgan-dan.md index df4bc41f..f91cdcf1 100644 --- a/_exec-members/10-morgan-dan.md +++ b/_exec-members/6-morgan-dan.md @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ permalink: /bio/morgan-dan/ name : Dan Morgan department: United States Department of Transportation job-title: Chief Data Officer -role: Data Ethics and Equity Working Group +role: Data Culture for the Workforce Working Group stick-top: false --- Daniel Morgan is the first Chief Data Officer of the United States Department of Transportation, having served in this capacity for five years. As the CDO, he has overall responsibility for the Departmental data program and data compliance across the Department. He is responsible for establishing a clear vision of the data managed in DOT and the application of DOT data for decision-making. He serves as data strategist and adviser, steward for improving data quality, liaison for data sharing and developer of new data products. diff --git a/_exec-members/7-petrey-harry.md b/_exec-members/7-petrey-harry.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..55fb1994 --- /dev/null +++ b/_exec-members/7-petrey-harry.md @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +--- +subtitle: Executive Committee +title: Council Leadership +bio-image: petrey-circle.png +bio-image-alt-text: Harry Petrey' headshot +layout: bio +permalink: /bio/petrey-harry/ +name : Harry Petrey +department: Department of Defense +job-title: Data Policy Lead +role: Business of Data Working Group +stick-top: false +--- + +Mr. Harry Petrey began his current position in September of 2021 and serves as the Chair of the DoD-wide Digital-Policy Working Group. In this capacity, Mr. Petrey is the lead for data management best practices & governance policy for the Department, and +concurrently serves as the senior DoD representative to a number of Federal fora (e.g. Federal Chief Data Officer (CDO) Council). Previously, Mr. Petrey was as a leader in Naval Intelligence, managing diverse portfolios and serving as the Intelligence +Community (IC) element CDO. In that position, Mr. Petrey provided resource oversight for more than 15 data and analytics programs, worked to leverage IC services and represented Naval Intelligence equities on the IC CDO Council, the Navy’s Data +Governance Board and in other diverse venues. + +Mr. Petrey began federal civilian service in 2004 as Chief of Innovation and Technology +at the Joint Inter-Agency Task Force-South (JIATF-S) setting the gold standard for interagency collaboration. More recently, Mr. Petrey served as the CDO in the State +Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) shaping the modernization of +information technology portfolios. Prior assignments include Special Advisor at the +Office of Undersecretary of Defense for Intelligence (USDI), Technical Director for the +Navy’s Tactical Exploitation of National Capabilities (TENCAP) program, and the +Operations Non-Commissioned Officer (NCO) for the Joint Captured Materiel +Exploitation Command (JCMEC) during Operation Iraqi Freedom. + +Mr. Petrey is a 2018 graduate of the Defense Senior Leader Development Program +(DSLDP) and earned a Master's in National Security and Resource Strategy (weapons +concentration) with a minor in Long-term Strategy from the National Defense University +in 2017. Mr. Petrey holds a Baccalaureate and Master’s degree from the National +Intelligence University and a number of personal and organizational awards. Mr. Petrey +resides in Arlington, VA with his wife and daughter. \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/_exec-members/3-oliver-wise.md b/_exec-members/8-oliver-wise.md similarity index 100% rename from _exec-members/3-oliver-wise.md rename to _exec-members/8-oliver-wise.md diff --git a/_exec-members/9-you-jiashe.md b/_exec-members/9-you-jiashe.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..e662daad --- /dev/null +++ b/_exec-members/9-you-jiashe.md @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +--- +subtitle: Executive Committee +title: Council Leadership +bio-image: you-circle.png +bio-image-alt-text: Jiashen You' headshot +layout: bio +permalink: /bio/you-jiashen/ +name : Jiashen You +department: U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission +job-title: Chief Data Officer +role: Business of Data Working Group +stick-top: false +--- + +Dr. Jiashen You is the Chief Data Officer at the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), where he plays a critical role in integrating data-driven strategies to enhance operational efficiency and support the agency's mission against employment discrimination. Dr. You’s strategic vision was instrumental in developing the EEOC’s Enterprise Data Warehouse and launching EEOC Explore, an advanced interactive data query tool that enhances public access to vital employment discrimination data. + +Prior to his current appointment, Dr. You led the EEOC’s Information and Data Access Division within the Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics, where his initiatives significantly advanced the agency’s data management and analytical capabilities. His professional trajectory also includes significant roles as the immigration enforcement statistics lead at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and as a mathematical statistician at the Department of Transportation and the U.S. Census Bureau, highlighting his extensive data science and policy background. + +Dr. You holds advanced degrees in mathematics and statistics, with a master’s degree and a Ph.D. in statistics from UCLA, preceded by undergraduate studies in mathematics and information and computer sciences at the University of Hawaii, Manoa. He has taught various college math and statistics courses since 2006. diff --git a/_includes/banner.html b/_includes/banner.html index 87dcf132..696a78f7 100644 --- a/_includes/banner.html +++ b/_includes/banner.html @@ -13,6 +13,18 @@
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+Distinguished Federal Data Innovator Award
-Shawn Tufts, Jay Gregory, Seth Hasty, Eli Velazquez, Department of Transportation (CFO):
-The Federal Aviation Administration's UAS Operations Team, AJW-124, is leveraging the remote sensing capabilities of Small UAS (sUAS) technologies to augment maintenance operations, infrastructure inspections, engineering assessments, troubleshooting coverage and line of sight problems, and siting of new towers in the National Airspace System (NAS). The team was able to demonstrate the use of remote sensing capabilities of small drones in tandem with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to deliver a new ecosystem of capabilities to drive organizational business intelligence. The visualization of data products enabled maintenance and engineering assessments on NAS infrastructure to be completed safer (no physical climbs), more efficient (less time and personnel), and more thorough (high resolution imagery of places easily missed with the naked eye).
-Excellence in Data Governance
-Ms. Erycka Reid, Department of the Air Force (CFO):
-Ms. Erycka Reid is an exemplary leader in data governance, she led a 13-person team providing Data and AI Strategic Services to a 700K+ member enterprise. Additionally, she successfully prepared the Data Battlespace with strategy, governance, and policy that directly increased the Department of the Air Force Data and AI capability to drive Enterprise Domain Awareness. Ms. Reid's proactive approach enabled her team to develop quantifiable measures for success and metrics for accountability for delivering ambitious results across the enterprise. In addition, her efforts established the DAF Data and Artificial Intelligence Council, which provides oversight and resourcing of the DAF DSE and DAF Data Fabric production to deliver Enterprise Domain Awareness.
-Nicholas Buggs and Joshua Spicka (Team), Nuclear Regulatory Commission (CFO):
-In 2022, Nicholas Buggs and Joshua Spicka led an effort to establish a Data Stewardship community across the agency. This included the creation of the Data Steward role, the identification of potential Data stewards, the validation of Data Stewards in all offices and regions, and the training of Data Stewards with respect to their responsibilities in this role. This effort has established a platform through which data governance best practices and standards can be communicated and agency wide collaboration around data can occur. The role of every office and region in managing data as a strategic asset has now been reinforced and the agency has taken a significant step forward in its efforts to unite around data.
-Team of the Year
-Operation Welcome Nica, Department of State (CFO):
-“Operation Welcome Nica” successfully brought together multiple Federal, State, and civil society partners to support the arrival of the 222 Nicaraguan political prisoner parolees in safety and dignity. The data and analytics team at State lead by Tressa Finerty, S/ES Deputy Executive Secretary, was considered a central component to the success of this operation and was one of the first offices called upon to support the crisis operation. The data collected by this State-led operation was shared and used by interagency partners including the White House NSC, the Office of the Vice President, DHS, HHS, parolee destination states, and partner NGOs. By placing data at the core of its operations and anticipating the need to effectively collect, manage, and report data between February 9 and February 14, 2022, the broader “Operation Welcome Nica” resulted in a safe and dignified arrival in the U.S. of 222 political prisoners from Nicaragua.
-Data Champion of the Year
-John Stevens, Federal Reserve System (Non-CFO):
-John Stevens, the senior associate director at the Research & Statistics division of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (the Board), has been a great data champion at the Board. John became the first vice chair of the Board Data Council, a data governance body that consists of data leaders and practitioners from all Board’s divisions. He and the CDO, along with the support of the Board Data Council, developed the first Board Data Strategy at the enterprise level. He was one of the critical initiators to establish a new program to improve the Board data download program to better share the Board's published data and engage with the Broader public data users.
-Andrea Palm, HHS (CFO):
-Deputy Secretary Andrea Palm has demonstrated an exceptional commitment to increasing data capacity at HHS and applying data for better, faster decision-making. In mid-2022, Deputy Secretary Palm convened a 10-person cross-agency team - including leaders from the Immediate Office of the Secretary and Office of the Chief Information Officer - to develop and implement a data strategy for the Department. She also ensured that a diverse group of over 150 stakeholders were engaged, including program and data leaders at each of HHS' operating divisions; representatives from private industry, nonprofit organizations, academia, and state and local governments; as well as experts in data policy and systems. The resulting vision, priorities, and initiatives enjoy widespread support within the organization at every level.
+ +Distinguished Achievement in Federal Data
-Katherine Tom, CDO, Federal Reserve System (Non-CFO):
-Katherine Tom has served as the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (FRB) Chief Data Officer for two years. She developed critical objectives informed by Federal Data initiatives in transforming Office of the Chief Data Officer and promoting data governance and data management best practices. She built great collaborative relationships with the Federal Reserve System data management community and played critical leadership roles on several enterprise data initiatives through which she leveraged strategic vision and strengths in translating the data strategic vision into concrete operating plans.
-Sharon Boivin, Layne Morrison, Soumya Sathya, Department of Education (CFO):
-The Department of Education (ED) prioritized Goal 2—Building Human Capacity to Leverage Data—in its inaugural Data Strategy and has since been recognized as a pioneer, promoting an exceptional data culture and community while sharing its innovations through the Federal CDO Council. This team from the ED Office of the Chief Data Officer led the work on Goal 2 throughout 2022 and, through their efforts, dramatically advanced data skills development to fundamentally empower ED employees, advancing strategic data use across the agency. One of their 2022 accomplishments included the deployment of the ED Data Competency Framework with four competencies (Data Program, Data Operations, Data Analysis, and Advancing the Use of Data) and 16 sub competencies at five proficiency levels. Another accomplishment included the launch of the first ED Data Science Training Program, graduating 28 new data scientists from 11 ED offices who will apply their skills within their areas of domain expertise. Through these and other efforts, the Department of Education has cultivated a sustainable resource that will support strategic use of data for years to come and did so by prioritizing the Department’s most valuable asset—its dedicated staff.
-Working Group and Committee Superior Contributors
-Small Agency Committee: Katherine Tom, Federal Reserve Board and Geoffrey Nieboer, Federal Deposit Insurance Company
-Large Agency Committee: Dorothy Aronson, National Science Foundation
-Data Sharing Working Group: Monique Eleby, Census Bureau
-Data Inventory Working Group: Brian Reichenbach, Department of State
-Data Skills Working Group: Arun Acharya, Consumer Product Safety Division and Lin Zhang, Department of Interior
-Data Ethics and Equity Working Group: Erin Dawson, National Science Foundation
+James Barham, Department of Agriculture (CFO):
+Launched in February 2023, the Rural Data Gateway is an online platform featuring over 20 data visualizations and charts that illustrate how investments through more than 70 USDA developmental programs have supported local and regional rural economies since 2012. It allows users to compare investments across different years, programs, and geographical areas, enhancing transparency and fostering trust between rural communities and USDA. The Gateway significantly expands public access to rural development data, informs discussions, improves program administration, and enhances outreach to rural and tribal communities.
+Distinguished Federal Data Innovator
+Sara Cermenaro, Social Security Administration (CFO):
+The CDO team, led by Ms. Sara Cermenaro, is fostering a Data Stewardship culture across the Social Security Administration (SSA) by implementing a Data Governance framework. Key initiatives include developing a FY 2024-2027 enterprise data strategy focusing on people, process, and technology, launching a maturity assessment to set a baseline and prioritize resources, and creating a data governance platform to communicate practices and unite SSA. SSA’s commitment to transparent, collaborative, sustainable, and non-invasive principles aims to advance data management maturity and enhance service delivery and operational efficiency.
+The Data Policy and Access Team, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (Non-CFO):
+The Data Policy and Access Team within the Office of Enterprise Data and Analytics (OEDA) has significantly enhanced the accessibility and confidentiality of EEOC data by reinstating data-sharing with academic researchers through an agreement with the U.S. Census Bureau, ensuring data protection. They launched interactive dashboards featuring anonymized data collections from 20117 and 2018, including a comparison tab that allows users to analyze pay disparities by race, sex, industry, and job type. These advancements demonstrate the team’s commitment to data transparency and evidence-building efforts.
+Excellence in Data Governance
+Dr. Neeraj Koul, Department of Transportation (CFO)
+As the Federal Railroad Administration’s (FRA) Chief Data Officer, Dr. Neeraj Koul has significantly elevated data governance within the FRA by promoting its importance throughout the data lifecycle, laying a foundation for future improvements in railroad safety. He established an architecture planning review board to ensure all new systems consider data management, preventing data silos and improving integration and analytics. Additionally, Dr. Koul initiated a Community of Practice for data education and developed an innovative policy to meet Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (Section 22417) requirements using existing resources, and avoiding unplanned IT projects.
+Data Champion of the Year
+Andre Newsom, Department of Energy (CFO):
+Andre leads data management practices at Kansas City National Security Campus's (KCNSC) driving data ecosystem innovation and standardization initiatives. In 2023, he helped present at the national labs summit on API management, fostering collaboration across the Department of Energy, and partnered with internal stakeholders to develop API assets that support next-generation data solutions.
+Team of the Year
+The CDO Team, Railroad Retirement Board (Non-CFO):
+The U.S. Railroad Retirement Board is pioneering digital transformation under its first Chief Data Officer, Dr. Kathleen McGuire, along with Annette Catalano, William Davis, James George, Vadim Libes, Keith McElroy, focusing on improving customer and digital experiences to reduce costs and manual labor. Key accomplishments include consolidating on-premise servers, addressing data and latency issues in legacy systems, converting outdated reports to relational databases, and training employees in data analytics and integration, all aimed at propelling the agency into a data-driven organization.
+The NEAS Team, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (CFO):
+The NASA Enterprise Automation Service (NEAS) has enhanced data upskilling and accessibility by integrating the Microsoft Power Platform and dataverse across NASA, centralizing low-code/no-code tools for efficient task automation. The transition to Power BI has improved data visualization and decision-making capabilities with a significant boost in tool adoption following the "Microsoft Power Palooza'' training event, organized by NEAS, increasing monthly active users by over 230% from 11,000 to 26,000 today.
Distinguished Federal Data Innovator Award
-Agency Reporting Modernizations Team, Federal Energy Regulation Commission:
-The FERC Agency Reporting Modernization Team led an initiative at FERC to modernize the reporting capability of the agency by moving away from its legacy Crystal Reports platform to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform and Power BI. FERC Agency Reporting (FAR) program provides staff with unprecedented access to data from 10 internal data assets by establishing interactive dashboards and supporting self-service analytics. FAR promotes broader use of FERC’s internal data by program office staff, including business analysts and data scientists, and improves access to capabilities that best align with their needs.
-Rachel Wang and Jen Storm-Jenkins, Department of State:
-Rachel Wang leads data platform services in the Office of Management Strategy & Solutions' Center for Analytics (M/SS/CfA) and falls under the Department CDO. Jen Storm-Jenkins is CfA's Technology Director and falls under the Department's CIO in the Bureau for Information Resource Management (IRM). Rachel and Jen co-lead a CIO-CDO hybrid team and led the Department's transformation in Data and Technology Platform Services. Recognizing the increased demand for data ingestion, storage, science, and visualization technology services, Rachel and Jen led the effort to create a common architecture solution. The resultant platform called Data.State democratizes access to technology, data, and analytics and enables data-informed decision-making organizational units at State headquarters and Embassies, Missions, and Consulates across the globe.
-Excellence in Data Governance
-Stephen Lewis, Department of Transportation:
-As the federal lead for the National Address Database initiative (NAD) at the Department of Transportation (DOT), Mr. Lewis has embraced a distributed data governance model. The initiative is a true partnership effort, where local and tribal governments are recognized as the authoritative source for the address points that comprise the NAD. In most cases, the local and tribal data is rolled up to the state government level and then submitted to the NAD by state partners. To date, the NAD includes 38 state partners (including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico), 30 of which have submitted data. In states with restricted data or no address programs, the NAD has 28 county and 2 tribal partners. Mr. Lewis works with each partner to establish update frequencies based on their processes and publishes a new release of the NAD every 3 months. The latest release contained 65.3 million records.
-Chris Haffer, Mark Leach, Ada Harris, and Kevin Malloy, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission:
-This nomination recognizes members of EEOC's District Demographic Dashboard [D3] Team for designing, developing, and deploying an interactive visualization dashboard for State, Local, and Tribal Affairs and District Field enforcement staff. The team also provided support and training with a User Guide, demonstrations, and Q&A sessions with each stakeholder group. To the EEOC's knowledge, the launch of this dashboard marks the first time these stakeholder groups have been provided with self-service data and analytical tools, creating efficiencies in their work and Agency outreach efforts. The dashboard has broken down traditional institutional boundaries by establishing new partnerships between stakeholders. In addition, the innovative dashboard provides agency enforcement staff with new, additional analytical tools to combat systemic discrimination.
-Team of the Year
-Data Governance Division, Data Management Branch, Federal Energy Regulation Commission:
-The Data Governance Division's Data Management Branch (DMB) led the implementation and deployment of FERC's "Athena" Platform – an innovative data science platform hosted on Microsoft's Azure cloud services - in partnership with divisions across FERC's CIO Organization. The scope of this program is to deploy, enhance, and maintain a cloud-hosted, user friendly, data science platform which provides on-demand, self-service capabilities and tools for data analysts to identify, curate, process, analyze, visualize and share results and outputs from FERC datasets.
-Air Force Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Office, Department of the Air Force:
-The Department of the Air Force's (DAF) Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) successfully demonstrated the ability to service the entire DAF enterprise from the headquarters level. Over the last fiscal year, the team developed robust policies that operationalize data down to the lowest level of the DAF. With a budget of less than $80M, the number of operational users the CDO enabled was approximately 20K (total cost per user $4,000) across two data platforms with the DAF and also Joint partners in OSD Advana and the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. Due to the team's successes, the Under Secretary of the Air Force charged the office with a Data Investment Review to ensure the DAF remains operationally relevant. The team increased its total business capture in the DAF program by over 600%. Furthermore, the team's proven capabilities led the DAF personnel management community, AF/A1, to partner with their data platforms in order to modernize their personnel management data systems; the total value of the 33 month sprint between the AF/A1 and CDO is $1.6M.
-Data Champion of the Year
-Kimberly Lewis and Yolanda Cooper, Federal Energy Regulation Commission:
-In close partnership, FERC's Data Governance Division and FERC's Acquisition Services Division successfully established and awarded FERC's first Data Support Services multiple award Blanket Purchase Agreement to procure timely, high-quality, and cost-effective support for Data Support Services at FERC. The strategic acquisition planning, guidance, and leadership from FERC's Contracting Officers allowed for the seamless award of this crucial contracting vehicle. It ensured that FERC has the necessary resources to successfully expand the data program as it matures to meet the requirements of the agency, Evidence Act, Federal Data Strategy, and the public.
-Brian McKeon, Department of State:
-Since joining the Department of State in 2021, Deputy Secretary McKeon has been a tireless advocate of all things data. From signing the Department's first-ever Enterprise Data Strategy and kicking off the first two Data Strategy Campaigns, Deputy Secretary McKeon has continued to push the Department to modernize its processes and use data to inform and drive its decision-making. Every six months, he leads a group of principals across the Department in deliberations to choose the next set of Data Campaigns—a process that helps the Department surge data science and policy resources around the Department's—and the world's—most pressing issues. Additionally, he has worked alongside other data leaders and practitioners to support data policy updates in the Department. These efforts to improve data transparency, data management, and data analytics platforms have helped put the Department on the leading edge of the federal data landscape. Furthermore, Deputy Secretary McKeon's advocacy has helped Department stakeholders better harness data to solve problems around crisis management, diversity and inclusion, and cybersecurity.
-Distinguished Achievement in Federal Data
-Wildland Fire Fuels Team, Department of Interior:
-The interagency Wildland Fire Fuels Data Management team utilized groundbreaking knowledge graph tools to facilitate efficient interagency data governance that promotes understanding and coordination between partners. The Fuels Knowledge Graph Project focused on glossaries and key reference data to support the coordination of hazardous fuel reduction activities. The flexibility of the knowledge graph allows all partners to define and describe their vocabularies and data, including business rules for collection and use and the relationships between data from multiple sources. The use of common reference data sets enables more consistency across partners. The team coordinated with the states of CA, UT, NV, and TX to ensure non-federal representation. They also identified source data from USGS, OMB, OPM, and Treasury to promote the value of authoritative data sources and linked open data principles. The knowledge graph is transforming data governance in a complex, interagency environment.
-Chris Haffer, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission:
-In November 2017, Chris Haffer was appointed the EEOC's first Chief Data Officer. His initial direction was to modernize the agency's data processing functions and build a 21st-century data and analytics organization while utilizing state-of-the-art data science tools and techniques, and efficiently leveraging data to reduce burden and costs while protecting individual and employer privacy and promoting program transparency. In FY2022, this transformation to a 21st-century data and analytics organization was solidified with the launch of state-of-the-art products and services, from the EEOC Data and Analytics Modernization Program portfolio. These products support data-driven decision-making by clients and customers inside and outside government, adopting industry best practices and hiring skilled data scientists.
-Working Group and Committee Superior Contributors
-Small Agency Committee: Kirsten Dalboe, Federal Energy Regulation Commission
-Large Agency Committee: Tom Sasala, Department of Defense
-Data Sharing Working Group: Arun Acharya, Consumer Product Safety Division
-Data Inventory Working Group: Robbin Rappaport, Internal Revenue Service
-Data Skills and Workforce Development Working Group: Erik Price, Office of the Director of National Intelligence; Layne Morrison, Department of Education; Robin Wagner, National Institute of Health
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Distinguished Federal Data Innovator Award
+Shawn Tufts, Jay Gregory, Seth Hasty, Eli Velazquez, Department of Transportation (CFO):
+The Federal Aviation Administration's UAS Operations Team, AJW-124, is leveraging the remote sensing capabilities of Small UAS (sUAS) technologies to augment maintenance operations, infrastructure inspections, engineering assessments, troubleshooting coverage and line of sight problems, and siting of new towers in the National Airspace System (NAS). The team was able to demonstrate the use of remote sensing capabilities of small drones in tandem with Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to deliver a new ecosystem of capabilities to drive organizational business intelligence. The visualization of data products enabled maintenance and engineering assessments on NAS infrastructure to be completed safer (no physical climbs), more efficient (less time and personnel), and more thorough (high resolution imagery of places easily missed with the naked eye).
+Excellence in Data Governance
+Ms. Erycka Reid, Department of the Air Force (CFO):
+Ms. Erycka Reid is an exemplary leader in data governance, she led a 13-person team providing Data and AI Strategic Services to a 700K+ member enterprise. Additionally, she successfully prepared the Data Battlespace with strategy, governance, and policy that directly increased the Department of the Air Force Data and AI capability to drive Enterprise Domain Awareness. Ms. Reid's proactive approach enabled her team to develop quantifiable measures for success and metrics for accountability for delivering ambitious results across the enterprise. In addition, her efforts established the DAF Data and Artificial Intelligence Council, which provides oversight and resourcing of the DAF DSE and DAF Data Fabric production to deliver Enterprise Domain Awareness.
+Nicholas Buggs and Joshua Spicka (Team), Nuclear Regulatory Commission (CFO):
+In 2022, Nicholas Buggs and Joshua Spicka led an effort to establish a Data Stewardship community across the agency. This included the creation of the Data Steward role, the identification of potential Data stewards, the validation of Data Stewards in all offices and regions, and the training of Data Stewards with respect to their responsibilities in this role. This effort has established a platform through which data governance best practices and standards can be communicated and agency wide collaboration around data can occur. The role of every office and region in managing data as a strategic asset has now been reinforced and the agency has taken a significant step forward in its efforts to unite around data.
+Team of the Year
+Operation Welcome Nica, Department of State (CFO):
+“Operation Welcome Nica” successfully brought together multiple Federal, State, and civil society partners to support the arrival of the 222 Nicaraguan political prisoner parolees in safety and dignity. The data and analytics team at State lead by Tressa Finerty, S/ES Deputy Executive Secretary, was considered a central component to the success of this operation and was one of the first offices called upon to support the crisis operation. The data collected by this State-led operation was shared and used by interagency partners including the White House NSC, the Office of the Vice President, DHS, HHS, parolee destination states, and partner NGOs. By placing data at the core of its operations and anticipating the need to effectively collect, manage, and report data between February 9 and February 14, 2022, the broader “Operation Welcome Nica” resulted in a safe and dignified arrival in the U.S. of 222 political prisoners from Nicaragua.
+Data Champion of the Year
+John Stevens, Federal Reserve System (Non-CFO):
+John Stevens, the senior associate director at the Research & Statistics division of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (the Board), has been a great data champion at the Board. John became the first vice chair of the Board Data Council, a data governance body that consists of data leaders and practitioners from all Board’s divisions. He and the CDO, along with the support of the Board Data Council, developed the first Board Data Strategy at the enterprise level. He was one of the critical initiators to establish a new program to improve the Board data download program to better share the Board's published data and engage with the Broader public data users.
+Andrea Palm, HHS (CFO):
+Deputy Secretary Andrea Palm has demonstrated an exceptional commitment to increasing data capacity at HHS and applying data for better, faster decision-making. In mid-2022, Deputy Secretary Palm convened a 10-person cross-agency team - including leaders from the Immediate Office of the Secretary and Office of the Chief Information Officer - to develop and implement a data strategy for the Department. She also ensured that a diverse group of over 150 stakeholders were engaged, including program and data leaders at each of HHS' operating divisions; representatives from private industry, nonprofit organizations, academia, and state and local governments; as well as experts in data policy and systems. The resulting vision, priorities, and initiatives enjoy widespread support within the organization at every level.
+Distinguished Achievement in Federal Data
+Katherine Tom, CDO, Federal Reserve System (Non-CFO):
+Katherine Tom has served as the Federal Reserve Board of Governors (FRB) Chief Data Officer for two years. She developed critical objectives informed by Federal Data initiatives in transforming Office of the Chief Data Officer and promoting data governance and data management best practices. She built great collaborative relationships with the Federal Reserve System data management community and played critical leadership roles on several enterprise data initiatives through which she leveraged strategic vision and strengths in translating the data strategic vision into concrete operating plans.
+Sharon Boivin, Layne Morrison, Soumya Sathya, Department of Education (CFO):
+The Department of Education (ED) prioritized Goal 2—Building Human Capacity to Leverage Data—in its inaugural Data Strategy and has since been recognized as a pioneer, promoting an exceptional data culture and community while sharing its innovations through the Federal CDO Council. This team from the ED Office of the Chief Data Officer led the work on Goal 2 throughout 2022 and, through their efforts, dramatically advanced data skills development to fundamentally empower ED employees, advancing strategic data use across the agency. One of their 2022 accomplishments included the deployment of the ED Data Competency Framework with four competencies (Data Program, Data Operations, Data Analysis, and Advancing the Use of Data) and 16 sub competencies at five proficiency levels. Another accomplishment included the launch of the first ED Data Science Training Program, graduating 28 new data scientists from 11 ED offices who will apply their skills within their areas of domain expertise. Through these and other efforts, the Department of Education has cultivated a sustainable resource that will support strategic use of data for years to come and did so by prioritizing the Department’s most valuable asset—its dedicated staff.
+Working Group and Committee Superior Contributors
+Small Agency Committee: Katherine Tom, Federal Reserve Board and Geoffrey Nieboer, Federal Deposit Insurance Company
+Large Agency Committee: Dorothy Aronson, National Science Foundation
+Data Sharing Working Group: Monique Eleby, Census Bureau
+Data Inventory Working Group: Brian Reichenbach, Department of State
+Data Skills Working Group: Arun Acharya, Consumer Product Safety Division and Lin Zhang, Department of Interior
+Data Ethics and Equity Working Group: Erin Dawson, National Science Foundation
+Distinguished Federal Data Innovator Award
+Agency Reporting Modernizations Team, Federal Energy Regulation Commission:
+The FERC Agency Reporting Modernization Team led an initiative at FERC to modernize the reporting capability of the agency by moving away from its legacy Crystal Reports platform to the Microsoft Azure cloud platform and Power BI. FERC Agency Reporting (FAR) program provides staff with unprecedented access to data from 10 internal data assets by establishing interactive dashboards and supporting self-service analytics. FAR promotes broader use of FERC’s internal data by program office staff, including business analysts and data scientists, and improves access to capabilities that best align with their needs.
+Rachel Wang and Jen Storm-Jenkins, Department of State:
+Rachel Wang leads data platform services in the Office of Management Strategy & Solutions' Center for Analytics (M/SS/CfA) and falls under the Department CDO. Jen Storm-Jenkins is CfA's Technology Director and falls under the Department's CIO in the Bureau for Information Resource Management (IRM). Rachel and Jen co-lead a CIO-CDO hybrid team and led the Department's transformation in Data and Technology Platform Services. Recognizing the increased demand for data ingestion, storage, science, and visualization technology services, Rachel and Jen led the effort to create a common architecture solution. The resultant platform called Data.State democratizes access to technology, data, and analytics and enables data-informed decision-making organizational units at State headquarters and Embassies, Missions, and Consulates across the globe.
+Excellence in Data Governance
+Stephen Lewis, Department of Transportation:
+As the federal lead for the National Address Database initiative (NAD) at the Department of Transportation (DOT), Mr. Lewis has embraced a distributed data governance model. The initiative is a true partnership effort, where local and tribal governments are recognized as the authoritative source for the address points that comprise the NAD. In most cases, the local and tribal data is rolled up to the state government level and then submitted to the NAD by state partners. To date, the NAD includes 38 state partners (including the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico), 30 of which have submitted data. In states with restricted data or no address programs, the NAD has 28 county and 2 tribal partners. Mr. Lewis works with each partner to establish update frequencies based on their processes and publishes a new release of the NAD every 3 months. The latest release contained 65.3 million records.
+Chris Haffer, Mark Leach, Ada Harris, and Kevin Malloy, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission:
+This nomination recognizes members of EEOC's District Demographic Dashboard [D3] Team for designing, developing, and deploying an interactive visualization dashboard for State, Local, and Tribal Affairs and District Field enforcement staff. The team also provided support and training with a User Guide, demonstrations, and Q&A sessions with each stakeholder group. To the EEOC's knowledge, the launch of this dashboard marks the first time these stakeholder groups have been provided with self-service data and analytical tools, creating efficiencies in their work and Agency outreach efforts. The dashboard has broken down traditional institutional boundaries by establishing new partnerships between stakeholders. In addition, the innovative dashboard provides agency enforcement staff with new, additional analytical tools to combat systemic discrimination.
+Team of the Year
+Data Governance Division, Data Management Branch, Federal Energy Regulation Commission:
+The Data Governance Division's Data Management Branch (DMB) led the implementation and deployment of FERC's "Athena" Platform – an innovative data science platform hosted on Microsoft's Azure cloud services - in partnership with divisions across FERC's CIO Organization. The scope of this program is to deploy, enhance, and maintain a cloud-hosted, user friendly, data science platform which provides on-demand, self-service capabilities and tools for data analysts to identify, curate, process, analyze, visualize and share results and outputs from FERC datasets.
+Air Force Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Office, Department of the Air Force:
+The Department of the Air Force's (DAF) Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) successfully demonstrated the ability to service the entire DAF enterprise from the headquarters level. Over the last fiscal year, the team developed robust policies that operationalize data down to the lowest level of the DAF. With a budget of less than $80M, the number of operational users the CDO enabled was approximately 20K (total cost per user $4,000) across two data platforms with the DAF and also Joint partners in OSD Advana and the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center. Due to the team's successes, the Under Secretary of the Air Force charged the office with a Data Investment Review to ensure the DAF remains operationally relevant. The team increased its total business capture in the DAF program by over 600%. Furthermore, the team's proven capabilities led the DAF personnel management community, AF/A1, to partner with their data platforms in order to modernize their personnel management data systems; the total value of the 33 month sprint between the AF/A1 and CDO is $1.6M.
+Data Champion of the Year
+Kimberly Lewis and Yolanda Cooper, Federal Energy Regulation Commission:
+In close partnership, FERC's Data Governance Division and FERC's Acquisition Services Division successfully established and awarded FERC's first Data Support Services multiple award Blanket Purchase Agreement to procure timely, high-quality, and cost-effective support for Data Support Services at FERC. The strategic acquisition planning, guidance, and leadership from FERC's Contracting Officers allowed for the seamless award of this crucial contracting vehicle. It ensured that FERC has the necessary resources to successfully expand the data program as it matures to meet the requirements of the agency, Evidence Act, Federal Data Strategy, and the public.
+Brian McKeon, Department of State:
+Since joining the Department of State in 2021, Deputy Secretary McKeon has been a tireless advocate of all things data. From signing the Department's first-ever Enterprise Data Strategy and kicking off the first two Data Strategy Campaigns, Deputy Secretary McKeon has continued to push the Department to modernize its processes and use data to inform and drive its decision-making. Every six months, he leads a group of principals across the Department in deliberations to choose the next set of Data Campaigns—a process that helps the Department surge data science and policy resources around the Department's—and the world's—most pressing issues. Additionally, he has worked alongside other data leaders and practitioners to support data policy updates in the Department. These efforts to improve data transparency, data management, and data analytics platforms have helped put the Department on the leading edge of the federal data landscape. Furthermore, Deputy Secretary McKeon's advocacy has helped Department stakeholders better harness data to solve problems around crisis management, diversity and inclusion, and cybersecurity.
+Distinguished Achievement in Federal Data
+Wildland Fire Fuels Team, Department of Interior:
+The interagency Wildland Fire Fuels Data Management team utilized groundbreaking knowledge graph tools to facilitate efficient interagency data governance that promotes understanding and coordination between partners. The Fuels Knowledge Graph Project focused on glossaries and key reference data to support the coordination of hazardous fuel reduction activities. The flexibility of the knowledge graph allows all partners to define and describe their vocabularies and data, including business rules for collection and use and the relationships between data from multiple sources. The use of common reference data sets enables more consistency across partners. The team coordinated with the states of CA, UT, NV, and TX to ensure non-federal representation. They also identified source data from USGS, OMB, OPM, and Treasury to promote the value of authoritative data sources and linked open data principles. The knowledge graph is transforming data governance in a complex, interagency environment.
+Chris Haffer, Equal Employment Opportunity Commission:
+In November 2017, Chris Haffer was appointed the EEOC's first Chief Data Officer. His initial direction was to modernize the agency's data processing functions and build a 21st-century data and analytics organization while utilizing state-of-the-art data science tools and techniques, and efficiently leveraging data to reduce burden and costs while protecting individual and employer privacy and promoting program transparency. In FY2022, this transformation to a 21st-century data and analytics organization was solidified with the launch of state-of-the-art products and services, from the EEOC Data and Analytics Modernization Program portfolio. These products support data-driven decision-making by clients and customers inside and outside government, adopting industry best practices and hiring skilled data scientists.
+Working Group and Committee Superior Contributors
+Small Agency Committee: Kirsten Dalboe, Federal Energy Regulation Commission
+Large Agency Committee: Tom Sasala, Department of Defense
+Data Sharing Working Group: Arun Acharya, Consumer Product Safety Division
+Data Inventory Working Group: Robbin Rappaport, Internal Revenue Service
+Data Skills and Workforce Development Working Group: Erik Price, Office of the Director of National Intelligence; Layne Morrison, Department of Education; Robin Wagner, National Institute of Health
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