Data Governance

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.  

DHS Chief Data Officer Council Documents

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

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. The implementation of this process is pursuant to DHS Policy Directive 142-04 that defines the DHS Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO) activities, roles and responsibilities required to comply with Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum M-16-21 Federal Source Code Policy: Achieving Efficiency, Transparency, and Innovation through Reusable and Open Source Software.

Identify used version control systems. Identify custom-developed source code projects. Identify usage type for each source code project. Define metadata for each source code projects. Implement additional metadata requirements. Create and verify JSON inventory file.

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.

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.