Karen Terrell leads the SAS Federal business unit, which helps civilian, defense and intelligence agencies across the United States spend taxpayer dollars effectively to achieve missions and goals – all using the power of SAS Analytics. SAS software is used in all 15 executive departments to help with critical issues like fighting fraud, waste and improper payments; improving financial transparency; supply chain and logistics optimization; and improving the performance and accountability needs of today's government leaders.
The cybersecurity challenge exemplifies how global threats have evolved and how governments must combat them. For all the complexity of the Cold War, the United States defense officials knew the nations that posed the biggest threat. The world is much different today. As General Michael Hayden (ret.), former Director of the National Security
One of our country's oldest institutions, the U.S. Census Bureau, is at the forefront of modern government efforts. Those efforts are numerous and disparate, from general directives to do more with less, to digitization and consolidation initiatives, to the “Cloud First” mandate, and the pushes for agile and open source development.
Despite an increase in the availability of data in the federal government over the past few years, data and analytics could be doing even more for federal agencies. A strategic approach to managing and analyzing the data is needed. And, like many technology challenges – that’s a people problem. A
