The U.S. Air Force Air Combat Command is searching for a Chief Data and Information Officer, according to a job posting on USAJobs.gov.
This position is the Chief Data and Information Officer within Air Force Technical Applications Center (AFTAC), leading the development, enhancement, and sustainment of the Center’s Information Technology (IT) architecture for enabling its national-level mission. This position serves as a special advisor to the Executive Director, 16th Air Force and the AFTAC Commander. AFTAC provides world-class, time-dominant scientific and technical information for decision advantage supporting international WMD treaty compliance and combatant commanders.
As a leading authority and recognized expert in the field of technology capabilities and advancements, the position provides strategic leadership, vision, expert advice, and guidance that defines the Center’s IT operations, infrastructure, application development, application modernization, network security, high performance computing, cloud computing, artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) algorithm deployment, and data management policies.
According to the posting, duties for the Chief Data and Information Officer include:
- Delivers recommendations and decisions that shape the direction and acquisition of the Center’s mission systems.
- Approves the Center’s cyber strategy and ensures an integrated IT roadmap that nests with the greater Air Force’s technology efforts.
- Determines enterprise strategy for data management, analytics and digital transformation that optimizes performance across all mission areas in the Center.
- Holds the authority to approve custom, commercial, and integrated IT hardware, software, and data management solutions to operations across the enterprise, preserving the long-term digital strategy.
- Builds strategic partnerships with department of defense, interagency, academic, and industry experts to identify resources, technologies, and efficiencies that enable the adoption of new capabilities at scale and speed.
- Serves as the advisor to the AFTAC Commander regarding the strategy, engineering, security, sustainment, and continuous enhancement of AFTAC’s IT systems, analytical tool development capabilities, information assurance policy compliance, and cyber defense capabilities.
