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The Department of Defense acquisition system—overseen by the Undersecretary for Acquisition and Sustainment—strives to provide efficient and timely outputs that result in operational benefits to war fighters. This study and workshop aim to support improvements to the defense acquisition workforce’s data science education to fully exploit the range of benefits associated with oversight and management of major defense acquisition programs.
The workshop will identify relevant data science skills and capabilities necessary for the acquisition workforce and the study will make recommendations for how DoD can accelerate data analysis capabilities within the acquisition workforce.
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Empowering the Defense Acquisition Workforce to Improve Mission Outcomes Using Data Science
Consensus Study Report
·2021
The effective use of data science - the science and technology of extracting value from data - improves, enhances, and strengthens acquisition decision-making and outcomes. Using data science to support decision making is not new to the defense acquisition community; its use by the acquisition workf...
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