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"If we want to achieve outcomes, and that ultimately is our ability to properly leverage data, we’ve got to fix the data problem, and the first part starts with the actual strategy," the Army's CIO said.

Some agencies have elements of zero-trust frameworks in place, but NIST will explore the proper way to use them, according to its chief cybersecurity adviser.

BT Federal and Harris Corporation are the latest contract primes to receive three-year authorities to operate from the General Services Administration.

Aviation managers can review mission analytics to redeploy the fleet and determine which pilots and sUAS to activate for certain tasks.

"I didn't consider it a leap of faith at all," Perdue said. "I've seen it work."

The FarmBeats platform can build machine-learning models across disparate datasets monitoring soil and weather, and the agency hopes to bring it to 200-plus research stations and farms nationwide.

A hybrid cloud architecture should help the agency better manage data as it adopts new passenger screening technology.

At a General Services Administration symposium, military and civilian agencies alike touted the new tech. GSA also launched a 5G customer experience campaign.

The command wants commercial help growing its "cloud based information technology infrastructure to host mission systems, applications, services, and data."

A new CTO. Wi-Fi in CIA buildings. A program to replace fax machines. And an acceleration of the intelligence community's adoption of cloud.