Chris’s career journey: Joined the army, his time in active duty, and his work with the Threat Reduction Agenecy.
03:29Going to Stratcom, the Missile Defense Agency, USSTRATCOM, and the Qlick Federal team.
06:12Defense industrial base manufacturers ensure supply chains because any issue can cause an immediate impact on real-world missions.
08:36Experiencing 9/11 at a Superfund site and his unit’s work.
10:26Impactful things after 9/11: the communication expedition for data and communication between federal agencies and across different systems.
15:19How do you measure interoperability: being able to communicate with the data in different mission sets.
19:51Having everyone operating from a single source of truth is crucial.
21:50How do we protect individual rights while protecting the sovereignty of the nation and society as a collective?
24:07Importance of leadership in bringing data across the multitude of agencies systems and operational domains
30:32Are we at a point where we can visualize information in these sort of ‘war rooms’ like in the movies?
34:05Two driving forces are the functionals leading up by highlighting what we don't know and top parts of government leading down by saying, ‘This is where we have to get to.’
36:30Suicide and sexual harassment prevention examples.
39:13Building teams around data and the role of the translator who sits between the data scientist and the business or mission owner.
44:21From a leadership standpoint if you're going to lead up you want translators on your team.
46:18Define success: what are you looking to achieve?
47:39Chris’ AHA moment: Key thing to touch on in the future is data literacy.
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