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Whether it’s test mission data or business operations data for administrative functions, Yuma Proving Ground (YPG) and its subordinate organizations Cold Regions, Tropic Regions and Yuma Test Centers have a lot of data.
Data falls into two categories – business operations data which can include accounting data managed on excel spreadsheets and test mission data collected during a test event. Both types are used to make decisions for the future of the test centers or a test program.
In mid-September more than a dozen YPG employees attended the second annual Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) Data summit. During those three days the sister-organizations of Aberdeen Test Center, Redstone Test Center (RTC) and YPG convened to share ideas and solutions for managing and sharing data securely and timely. ATEC’s Chief Data Officer shared their objectives and milestones for data management.
YPG’s Chief Data Officer Richard Hernandez who attended and presented at the summit explained, “The objective of the data summit was to talk about some of these technologies, how people are approaching it within their test center, how we can collaborate with them.”
The attendees discussed the efforts the test centers have made to modernize the workforce providing education on new data analysis programs. One prime example is YPG enacting the Employee Modernization Effort for Relevant Growth and Enrichment better known as the EMERGE program to provide funding for these technical courses.
Hernandez used the Aviation Directorate as an example naming Ross Gwynn and Ryan Tiaden who got ahead of the machine learning curve saying, “They invested in this ahead of their time and the fruits of their labor are showing.”
Following the summit, Hernandez made a visit to RTC to see the projects that have been developing over the past year.
“We want to apply their lessons learned, understand what technologies and resources they are using, and see if we can replicate areas they had success at YPG,” said Henandez.
Hernandez says the goal of all the test centers is to make data readily available, minimize the downtime and need for manual computing.
“Data availability covers the reduction, analysis and the reporting,” he adds, “Doing that entire process and making it available to the consumer, that’s what you are trying to minimize and trying to make that efficient.”
For the customer Hernandez says, “Bottom line is you have more accuracy in the reporting, and quicker turnaround of data.”
| Date Taken: | 10.12.2023 |
| Date Posted: | 10.12.2023 21:26 |
| Story ID: | 455442 |
| Location: | YUMA PROVING GROUND, ARIZONA, US |
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