CREATING INSIGHT-DRIVEN DECISIONS
are repeated over and over again across domains and systems. Whether the Soldier manually re-enters that information (for a medical appointment, perhaps), or it is copied directly from another source, it is duplicated many times over, but only one source for it should be linked to the dashboard.
DATA INCOMING
A Soldier with the 2nd Cavalry Regiment receives GPS data during Dynamic Front 2019 training in Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany, March 6. Data such as the deflection, quadrant, round type and fuze setting is vital to the success of a fire mission. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. LaShic Patterson, 2nd Cavalry Regiment)
“When I come into the Army, my basic information should go in once and only need re-entry upon change,” said Chérie A. Smith, program executive officer for EIS. “Some things may change. I might get married, I might have a couple of kids, but my basic information will remain the same. However, because we have all these systems that have grown up on their own, we’re re-entering that information a million times. And why do we do that? Te reason is, when you’re looking at it from one system view, it’s always cheaper to do the manual re-entry than to build the interface [to an existing system].”
In truth, no one would have designed the Army’s data systems to look the way they do today. It’s not by design, but by a lack of design, that Army data exists in silos and can be difficult to access. Imagine how a city might look if it grew with no urban planning, zoning or infrastructure oversight. Anyone who needed a house or an office would be free to build one, but there might be no power grid and no city water supply. It would be a bit like the Wild West. Tat’s essentially how the Army’s data systems developed.
WHAT IT’S ALL ABOUT
Lt. Col. Rob Wolfe, project lead for the Army Leader Dashboard, explains the project at a January meeting attended by Dr. Bruce D. Jette, the Army acquisition executive and assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology (ASA(ALT)), and Principal Military Deputy to the ASA(ALT) Lt. Gen. Paul A. Ostrowski. (Photo courtesy of the author)
“You look at these planned communities where everything is pretty and operational, but they knew what the result was before they started,” said Lt. Col. Rob Wolfe, Strategic Initiatives Group director and the lead for the dashboard project. Te Army “didn’t do that. We have 50-year-old systems in one place, and we have 1-year- old systems in another place.”
18 Army AL&T Magazine Summer 2019
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