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Swimming in data, Army and Air Force make sure they’re capturing the best info 2 hours ago The Army and Air Force want to increase the amount of data soldiers and airmen can access. (Chainarong Prasertthai/Getty Images) WASHINGTON — The Army and Air Force are adjusting how they manage the data they create to ensure they’re collecting information that is most important for future battles. The problem? There’s a lot of data. Speaking at the C4ISRNET Conference on Wednesday, top data...

2 min read        Greg Garcia, the Army’s deputy chief information officer, is retiring after 38 years in government. Garcia announced in an email to staff, which Federal News Network obtained, that his last day is Feb. 27. “This is a tough decision, yet one we’ll all have to make at some point in our careers,” Garcia wrote in his email. “For me, I will continue to work and will be spending more time with our family in Texas.” Greg Garcia ,  the deputy CIO  of the Army, wil...

A single Army command, HRC, tracks more than 800,000 data elements, the service’s new Chief Data Officer says. If you try to share all your data without setting clear priorities, the network will choke on it – especially in frontline units, where getting the right data can be life or death. By   Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. on January 25, 2021 at 7:01 AM

The appointment was announced following the establishment of the new position by the Pentagon in July 2020. Iyer will be the highest ranking Indian American civilian at the Pentagon equivalent in rank to a three-star general, the release notes. He will supervise an annual budget of $16 billion for U.S. Army IT operations and over 15,000 civilians and military personnel in over 100 countries, it said. Iyer replaces acting CIO Greg Garcia, who stood in after the retirement earlier of Lt. Gen. Bru...