Federal AI Wants to Fly but Data Weighs it Down
Somewhere between 60% and 80% of federal AI projects have stalled out and the common denominator almost always traces back to the data. In Episode 16 of The GIST of Govt IT, Brian and Sean sit down with Matt Lawson, Director of Solution Engineering for NetApp Federal, to unpack what it actually takes to build a data foundation that lets AI succeed. Matt's thesis is that projects keep stalling because teams can't get the right data, in the right place, at the right cost.The conversation digs into data gravity (you can't move petabytes overnight, and you can't beat the speed of light), the…
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