Federal Government Information Technology

As IC moves toward AI, data discoverability challenges front and center

Federal News Radio: Like much of the rest of the government, the intelligence community is eager to take advantage of machine learning and artificial intelligence technologies to help make sense of its data. But first, the IC has a big problem to solve: making its information available to the machines. By some estimates, only about 2 percent of its vast data holdings are readily “discoverable.”

Efforts to boost that figure are part of the the latest iteration of the intelligence community’s multi-year effort to integrate its IT networks under the banner of ICITE. In what IC leaders have taken to calling the “second epoch” of ICITE, the focus is shifting from hardware and software to better data management.

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