b'We are trying to craft a data-centric mentality, inspired by insights from General James Mattis, focusing on what do I know, who needs to know, and have I told them.Would tell us more about DISAs data strategy andThe DoD has worked in data silos for decades. This has led your key implementation priorities?to the workforce of hoarding data and having a massive amount of redundancy data out there. We are looking to We are currently drafting and finalizing the DISA Dataintegrate those silos together, consolidate where data lives, Implementation Plan, which is our data strategy to meet theand create a balance of governance and polices to increase DoD CDO Data Strategy and our DISA Strategic Plan. DISAdata quality. Director Lt. Gen Skinner and DoD CDO David Spirk have laid out our strategies. Now it is up to the DISA components,External trends are also an influencer. Look at how popular OCDO included, to map the implementation plan to meetthe CDO conversation has become in the last five years. We that strategy. Our key implementation priorities include thesee how industry in changing the way they view data and exploitation of DoD data across the DoD in a secure andthe value of it, and we are right along with them. Extracting ethical manner. We need to harness that data and share that value and using it to find gaps is where we see our that information to the warfighters that need to makepaths converging. The DISA Strategic Plan says, Leveraging actionable decisions.cyber, business performance, and analytical data encourages our total force and mission partners to accelerate innovation In the DISA Strategic Plan, data is outlined as line of effortby exploiting untapped efficiencies. And that is exactly #3; titled leverage data as a center of gravity. Acceleratingwhat our focus is. data managed projects across DISA and the DoD is a large internal driver to collect and analyze data. Also on ourWhat are you doing to advocate for and support radarfinding where data lives are, who the data steward is,the DoD enterprise in thinking differently about and where we have deficiencies.data? What does this entail? This is an area that I see being the big rock for all new CDO offices and data focus efforts. The DoD has always had the mission of keeping information safe from adversaries and based on need to know status. This has led to disparate, distant, and disjointed data efforts internally and externally. While the security of our data is important, we must expand the minds of the DoD workforce to want to share data in that secure and ethical manner. Looking at data as an assetas a tangle tool for DoD to capitalize on to enhance our mission effectivenessis the mindset we are trying to craft. We are trying to craft a data-centric mentality, inspired by insights from General James Mattis, focusing on what do I know, who needs to know, and have I told them. This is what I am communicating across DISA. This entails loads of effort and evangelism from all areas of the workforce. We must provide robust training for the workforce to reengineer the culture to become 54 www.businessofgovernment.org The Business of Government'