Improve Acquisition and Procurement through Data Governance and Information Quality
Abstract
It is challenging to standardize data; yet, the capabilities to draw upon data across information systems hold huge potential for improving defense acquisition and procurement. We will research methods, tools, and techniques that encompass data governance, quality, and analytics. We are in the process of identifying issues and solution approaches from publicly available data. The work performed by this project will provide a good profiling of the data quality of published acquisition databases from the Federal government. Importantly, our research will show the benefits of data governance and information quality could provide to Federal acquisition and procurement decision and management processes. The question to be addressed is how to develop data visibility capabilities to support various acquisition and procurement tasks without enforcing a single data standard across these hundreds of systems. Three main outcomes are anticipated: determining where we can obtain information related to acquisition and procurement from publicly available sources; finding the types of questions that can be answered from publicly available data; and exploring relationships that the DoD may not know exist, or DoD might not want to expose. The research will be undertaken by a team from the Institute for Chief Data Officers at University of Arkansas at Little Rock, with Professor Richard Wang as the PI. The Institute is the only one in the world to bring together knowledge, research, and industry practice of Chief Data Officers.
Document Details
- Document Type
- DoD Grant Award
- Publication Date
- Nov 22, 2019
- Source ID
- HQ00341810004
Entities
People
- Richard T Wang
Organizations
- Office of the Secretary of Defense
- University of Arkansas at Little Rock