THE ARMY’S DATA (AD)VANTAGE


THE ARMY’S DATA (AD)VANTAGE by Lt. Col. Terry Joiner


sis. From their Vantage dashboards, Soldiers can pull data from new and legacy systems across the enterprise to track everything from budget and flight hours to troop movements and equip- ment, thereby furthering the Army secretary’s data-centricity objective.


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“Our aim with Army Vantage is to provide a self-service system enabling command teams and leaders at all echelons to fully see themselves in all readiness areas by connecting data from a multitude of systems onto one platform. Tese efforts have


rmy Vantage is a flexible data platform that gives Soldiers the capability, using its curated suite of tools, to create a custom common operating picture that can track essential functions and enable analy-


The Army’s powerful data ingestion and analysis platform is seeing wider adoption and creating data-driven decisions across the service.


operationalized data and we continually see increased adoption, more tailoring of existing data and reports, and an increase in time that staffs have to solve the hard problems with the support of data,” said Lt. Col. Laura-Jane “LJ” Freeland, product manager for Army Data Platform at the Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems.


Users across classification levels can now access comprehensive Armywide data, analysis and trends to make more informed decisions. Before the advent of Army Vantage, deployments had to be tracked with little to no integration across systems. Tese different systems made it nearly impossible to stitch together a common operating picture during a deployment. Tis fragmented data environment meant Soldiers had to resort to phone calls and


DATA-CENTRIC CAPABILITY


The Army Vantage data platform gives Soldiers the capability to create a custom common operating picture that can track essential functions and enable analysis. (Image by Getty Images)


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Army AL&T Magazine Winter 2023


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