Smart Data Infographic
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The federal government has started leveraging big data to enhance mission effectiveness, though challenges like personnel capability gaps and lack of standardized data persist. Key initiatives are in place to improve cybersecurity, tax compliance, and health threat forecasting through advanced data analytics. Big data holds significant potential benefits for federal operations, particularly in enhancing decision-making and efficiency.
Smart Data Infographic
- 1. Data Decision-Making Over the last few years, the federal government has begun realizing the promise of Big Data to enhance mission- effectiveness. Now, several prominent initiatives are pressing federal agencies to further invest in Big Data, including: COMPREHENSIVE NATIONAL CYBERSECURITY INITIATIVE is holding federal leaders back from fully leveraging Big Data? can agencies overcome these challenges?Inability to extract value from existing data Gaps in personnel capabilities 59% indicate their agencies lack professional capabilities 42% indicate their agencies need domain experts 40% indicate the lack of standardized data is a challenge 31% indicate the lack of a data analytics support system is a challenge Lack of understanding of supporting technologies Many officials remain reluctant to embrace the cloud because they lack understanding of the value data analytics can bring to their organizations. This is a very serious challenge requiring as much education and demonstration as technology. Tim Andrews, Vice President Booz Allen Hamilton “ ” No one particular transaction, no one particular piece of data, is sufficient, but by putting them all together, you can begin to spot patterns earlier. , Vice President, Booz Allen Hamilton “ ” Improved cyber threat modeling Greater tax compliance The CDC’s BioSense program improves health threat forecasting and readiness by using cloud computing to enhance data sharing and collection across levels of government BioSense data was used to enhance detection of dengue fever in Florida and Hawaii in 2012 782% increase in cyber breaches reported by federal agencies from 2006-2012 Using vast amounts of data, agencies can model the progression of a cyber attack to better understand and prevent breaches is lost from taxpayer underreporting BIG DATA COULD YIELD MAJOR BENEFITS FOR 3 AREAS IN PARTICULAR: EXECUTIVE ORDER 13636 FEDERAL INFORMATION SECURITY MANAGEMENT ACT OPEN GOVERNMENT DIRECTIVE CONTINUOUS MONITORING MANDATES AFFORDABLE CARE ACT Streamline data collection Train personnel in analytics Invest in analytics 2006 2012 782% LOCAL STATE NATL Automated information matching programs powered by Big Data return 6x more revenue than audits and are 20x less expensive SOURCES CDC, “BioSense: Public Health Surveillance Through Collaboration” GAO, GAO-13-187 Nextgov, “Op-Ed: This is the Year Agencies will Turn to Big Data to Fend Off Cyber Threats” IRS, “IRS Releases New Tax Gap Estimates” Intuit Accountants, “Big Data: How the IRS Uses Information Statement for Compliance” GBC, “Empowering Smart Decision- Making Through Smart Data” Enhanced bio-surveillance