{"689004":{"#nid":"689004","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"How Federal Agencies Turn Data Readiness Into Real-World AI Results","body":"","field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAnn Dunkin, former Energy Department CIO and now a distinguished professor of the practice and distinguished external fellow at the Georgia Institute of Technology, says data readiness at agencies varies significantly. She agrees that regulated industries as well as regulated agencies are well positioned because \u201cthey know what data they have and where it\u2019s located, so you can apply AI to it much more easily.\u201d\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003EOfficials unlock artificial intelligence value by fixing governance, metadata and pipelines first \u2014 building trusted, shareable data foundations across missions. When Taka Ariga was chief data and chief artificial intelligence officer at the Office of Personnel Management, he introduced \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/fedtechmagazine.com\/article\/2025\/12\/what-us-patent-and-trademark-office-can-teach-agencies-about-working-smarter\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Eagile governance\u003C\/a\u003E, a model that allows \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/fedtechmagazine.com\/article\/2025\/11\/resilience-new-frontier-ai-performance\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EAI projects\u003C\/a\u003E to move \u201cat the speed of innovation\u201d rather than being stymied by federal bureaucracy.\u003C\/p\u003E\u003Cp\u003E\u0026nbsp;\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36413","created_gmt":"2026-03-17 18:59:34","changed_gmt":"2026-03-17 19:21:07","author":"pdevarajan3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"FedTech","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/fedtechmagazine.com\/article\/2026\/02\/how-federal-agencies-turn-data-readiness-real-world-ai-results","dateline":{"date":"2026-02-23T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2026-02-23T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"679661":{"id":"679661","type":"image","title":"anndunkin-feb232026-fedtech.jpeg","body":null,"created":"1773774100","gmt_created":"2026-03-17 19:01:40","changed":"1773774100","gmt_changed":"2026-03-17 19:01:40","alt":"Ann Dunkin, distinguished external fellow at the Strategic Energy Institute is featured in FedTech\u0027s article","file":{"fid":"263844","name":"anndunkin-feb232026-fedtech.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/03\/17\/anndunkin-feb232026-fedtech.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/2026\/03\/17\/anndunkin-feb232026-fedtech.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":57492,"path_740":"http:\/\/hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/2026\/03\/17\/anndunkin-feb232026-fedtech.jpeg?itok=73aciICv"}}},"media_ids":["679661"],"groups":[{"id":"367481","name":"SEI Energy"},{"id":"1280","name":"Strategic Energy Institute"}],"categories":[{"id":"139","name":"Business"},{"id":"144","name":"Energy"},{"id":"194609","name":"Industry"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"}],"keywords":[{"id":"188853","name":"go-seiinthenews"},{"id":"187927","name":"go-inthenews"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}