DOD CDAO Announces Open DAGIR, New Approach to Scaling Data, Analytics, AI

The U.S. Department of Defense’s (DoD)  Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO) unveiled Open DAGIR, a fresh strategy for expanding data, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.

Open DAGIR – short for Open Data and Applications Government-owned Interoperable Repositories – represents a multi-vendor ecosystem with accompanying business models, facilitating the integration of data platforms, development tools, services, and applications for both industry and government.

Crucially, this approach ensures the preservation of government data ownership while respecting industry intellectual property rights.

"Open DAGIR builds upon the momentum created by the Deputy Secretary of Defense's 2021 Creating Data Advantage memo, which included five data decrees for how the Department would retain ownership of its data while maximizing data sharing,” Dr. Radha Plumb, the CDAO, said.

"Open DAGIR brings the best industry has to offer to the Department. It allows us to ensure enduring access to government-owned, contractor-operated technology stacks and infrastructure and retain data rights while also maximizing the ability of other companies to develop applications with government data,” Plumb added.

The Department will initially utilize the Open DAGIR ecosystem to bolster the data infrastructure and applications essential for supporting the Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control (CJADC2).