"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.

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.

A lack of complete and timely data is making it difficult for the agency to track trends in opioid diversion.