Last week, President Trump announced the appointment of Reed Cordish to the newly created position of assistant to the president for intragovernmental and technology initiatives.

The move seems to promise the new administration understands the need to modernize how the federal government does business — especially how data gets shared (or doesn’t) among various agencies.

A Video Conversation with John Davis, CEO and Founder of N&C Inc. About His Passion for Policy - Part III

One of the most important lessons learned as a result of the 9/11 terrorist attacks concerns how a lack of information sharing between naturally allied agencies such as the CIA, NSA, and (former) INS — so-called data “stovepiping” — led to lost insights, duplicative efforts, and missed opportunities to protect innocent lives.

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