The CDO is organizing work around eight priority data domains, and the department is looking to pilot a CMMC approach with its vendors.

Data governance, infrastructure and the workforce remain areas in need of improvement, said the chair of the federal CDO Council.

The annual event is casting "a wide net" next month, encouraging challengers to take on issues like unemployment, health care, education and digital access.

Detailees will work with their agencies' chief data officers to implement the 2020 FDS Action Plan and develop one for 2021.

With more than a dozen new state chief data officers this year, a Georgetown University think tank has released a framework to pass the torch on data…

The position, overseeing the federal government’s decentralized statistical system, has been filled in an acting capacity since January.

As more agencies within the federated department appoint chief data officers, enterprise architecture shops are having to adjust to dual-hatting.

The Army is working to spread data literacy across the ranks, ordering divisions to appoint data representatives who will work with the DOD CDO.

The Department of Defense CDO will now be housed under the CIO's purview, and Dana Deasy is "considering qualified candidates" for the role, currently held by Michael…

Two federal CDOs said building a data-savvy workforce is very much front of mind at their agencies.