“The Federal Chief Data Officers Council released the long-awaited, second action plan for the Federal Data Strategy, intending to build on progress agencies made implementing the original’s data governance, planning and infrastructure actions.
Agencies haven’t completed all of the actions in the 2020 Action Plan, which was released in December 2019, and may not begin work on the delayed 2021 Action Plan until year’s end, according to its forward…”
“Actions 1 through 6 in the 2021 Action Plan directly correspond to those of its predecessor.
The first action requires Chief Financial Officers Act agencies and encourages all others to gather and assess data identified for priority agency questions. A total of 17 CFO Act agencies had identified that data by the original action plan’s deadline of Sept. 30, 2020…”
“Action 6 requires all agencies to improve their data inventories, which the original plan required them to publish and update. A total of 33 agencies updated their inventories by the Dec. 31 deadline, but updating them to conform to standard metadata is pending guidance from OMB and the General Services Administration…” Read the full article here.
Source: Federal Data Strategy finally gets Year 2 Action Plan – By Dave Nyczepir, October 27, 2021. FedScoop.
