More and more often, governments (local, state, Federal) are finding the most current, useful and high-performing solutions (particularly in the IT space) are created through very collaborative engagement of the commercial ecosystem.  Bringing " commercial insights for government solutions " to bear, is actually essential at this time, for example in designing, building and improving Smart City initiatives. Read more about how commercial insights for government solutions is practiced in the use case of the Las Vegas Smart City, a collaboration between NTT DATA, the citizens and government of this American city.

The New Army Data Strategy, Due Soon in 2019. Many in our mission intelligence and data management community are eagerly anticipating the pending release of the Army’s 2019 Data Strategy (last released in 2016). The  2016 strategy  still is entirely (mostly) relevant, however, and in fact remains to be fully implemented in all corners of the Army. The digital domain with AI/ML tools is quickly evolving, however – by the data owners, data consumers and their enemies. A recent industry quote "Army Chief Information Officer/G-6 Lt. Gen. Bruce Crawford told reporters at the Association of the U.S. Army's annual meeting Oct. 15 the data strategy will help ensure the service's data is accessible, understandable and trusted. The unstructured nature of our data today doesn't allow us to do that until we implement a data strategy... Artificial intelligence and machine learning capabilities will be best put to use in structured and clean data, something the service do...