Data management plays a critical role in the nation’s defense, according to Mark Krzysko, deputy director of Enterprise Information, Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics for the Department of Defense. Krzysko supplies a wide variety of info for decision making to the Under Secretary of Defense, and he jokingly describes his position as “Jack of all trades, master of none.”

With an oversight of $1.6 trillion, the Department of Defense is one of the largest and most complicated department in the government, and it is always trying to “do it better, faster, cheaper.” While speaking with theCUBE, SiliconANGLE’s Media team, during the MITCDOIQ Symposium 2015, Krzysko says the question is: “More value without security, or security without value?” Although while he aims to do both simultaneously, the reality is that they “always have to focus on the value first.”

Data is an imperfect science

“We make decisions based on the data we have, and data is an imperfect science,” Krzysko says. “You can have both bad data and undefined data — data you don’t really understand the meaning of.” Poor data can derail decisions, but it is always a balance to decide if it’s good, bad, or good enough.

Discussing access control issues, Krzysko speaks about how although the commercial and defense industries have very different use-case scenarios, they can learn from each other with the goal of better data management for both.

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