The agencies plan to use subject matter expert-led assessments to determine if applicants qualify for the positions.

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

The CIO Council is following "clear demand signals" and learning from what's already been done, Margie Graves said Thursday.

It's part of a broader goal to increase data literacy throughout government.

The memo gives agencies the go-ahead to add the parenthetical (Data Scientist) next to the official title for a variety of job listings.

The Pentagon has made big plans to adopt artificial intelligence across the department, but two very large hurdles stand in the way of that goal, its new chief data officer said Wednesday: structuring data and recruiting the talent to manage it. “You can’t feed the algorithms if you don’t have data. Solid, clean data in large volumes, well-tagged

Data is the “lifeblood” of the CIA, and because of that, CIO John Edwards stressed Tuesday, the agency needs to develop a data-savvy workforce to derive value from its morass of foreign intelligence data. At the CIA, everybody must learn to work with data and technology, from agents and analysts to operators and engineers, Edwards