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Data Governance

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Governance

Information on the governance of DHS statistical system including the Statistical Official and the Statistical Official Council

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Report Review and Clearance

Description of the review and clearance process for reports OHSS publishes to the public

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About Reports and Data

Information on data governance, glossary, and report publication

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Open Source

DHS is committed to supporting a modern software development ecosystem by working with the OSS community, publishing open source projects, and helping secure critical the OSS infrastructure.

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Program Accountability and Risk Management

The Office of Program Accountability and Risk Management manages DHS-wide policy, governance, and oversight of the largest and most complex DHS acquisition programs and supports senior leadership to ensure effective and efficient program execution.

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Collection Use Retention and Dissemination Personally Identifiable Information

This Instruction provides guidance on responsibilities and procedures regarding the collection, use, retention and dissemination of personally identifiable information.  

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DHS Chief Data Officer Council Documents

This page contains important documents pertaining to the DHS Chief Data Officer Council.

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Source Code Inventory Process

The DHS Source Code Inventory Process (SCIP) is a process for inventorying Department of Homeland Security (DHS) custom-developed source code and releasing a subset of this code as open source.

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DHS Chief Data Officer Council

The DHS Chief Data Officer Council is a senior-leadership governance body that will mature Enterprise Data Management across the Department.

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Digital Governance Milestone 8.2

The Digital Government Strategy sets forth a number of requirements on website performance measurement and requires reporting a plan of action by January 22, 2013 in order to satisfy Digital Governance Milestone 8.2. The DHS Office of Public Affairs proposes the following plan to achieve these requirements.