Issues with Access to Acquisition Data and Information in the Department of Defense: Considerations for Implementing the Controlled Unclassified Information Reform Program

Assessing Department of Defense Use of Data Analytics and Enabling Data Management to Improve Acquisition Outcomes

“…Data breaches are common, rogue data sets propagate in silos" (DalleMule and Davenport, 2017). Other recent RAND Corporation analyses observed similar challenges in DoD acquisition data access and management (see Riposo et al, 2015;McKernan et al, 2016McKernan et al, , 2017McKernan et al, , 2018.…”

“…We assessed the DoD against these practices by comparing the DoD's status (as identified in prior research [Riposo et al, 2015;McKernan et al, 2016McKernan et al, , 2017McKernan et al, , 2018 and recent DoD information-management meetings against these best practices. Comparison is straightforward, identifying whether key private-sector practices are being used by the DoD.…”

“…The Department of Defense has improved acquisition data and analysis but there is room for improvement Riposo et al, 2015;McKernan et al, 2016McKernan et al, , 2017McKernan et al, , 2018DiCicco, 2019;Smith, 2019;Drezner et al, 2019; author experience) against the Gartner's Maturity Model (vander Meulen and McCall, 2018).…”

“…The DoD acquisition community likely resides at approximately level 2 for most of the characteristics of its data analytics. We base this evaluation on the research that we have done since 2014 for the DoD on acquisition information management and access (see Riposo et al, 2015;McKernan et al, 2016;McKernan et al, 2017;McKernan et al, 2018). Within the DoD acquisition community, the level of maturity also varies across the DoD.…”

“…We also used our prior research, expert judgment, and experience to assess the DoD's status against IBM's maturity model for big data analytics (see Riposo et al, 2015;McKernan et al, 2016;McKernan et al, 2017;McKernan et al, 2018).…”