Report on data strategy of the Department of Veterans Affairs

(a) Report required Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Veterans Affairs shall submit to Congress a report describing the progress, challenges, performance, and opportunities of implementing the data strategy of the Department of Veterans Affairs. (b) Elements The report under this section shall include the following: (1) Qualitative and quantitative progress towards strengthening data management of the Department, including business and mission impact enabled by management of data as a strategic asset. (2) Recommendations of the Secretary regarding legislation that may accelerate data management maturity of the Department. (3) Progress and results in cataloging and inventorying data assets of the Department and using such assets to support— (A) internal evidence-based policymaking; and (B) ethical and appropriate dissemination of statistical aggregates, data-driven analysis, and open data. (4) Progress in implementing requirements under chapter 35 of title 44, United States Code (commonly known as the Paperwork Reduction Act), and related data quality efforts to support strategic management of data collected by the Department. (5) Efforts to move towards a rules-based, transparent, Department-wide approach to management, integration, and sharing of, and access to, data. (6) Recommendations of the Secretary regarding adjustments to data requirements of the Department. (7) Information sharing agreements and outstanding requirements with other Federal entities, including gaps best addressed by the addition of survey questions to an existing Federal survey instrument. (8) Progress on recently enacted public laws, Executive orders, Presidential memoranda, and outstanding recommendations of the Comptroller General of the United States or an inspector general as it pertains to veteran population-based data collection, quality, integration, sharing, interoperability, and analytics within the scope of improving and ensuring equity in services to veterans, their families, and other beneficiaries. (9) A discussion of current risk assessments regarding data breaches and information security (as those terms are defined in section 5727 of title 38, United States Code) of the Department. (10) Priority data requirements of the Department, identified through consultation with the following entities: (A) The Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate and the Committee on Veterans' Affairs of the House of Representatives. (B) The Congressional Budget Office. (C) Veterans service organizations. (D) The Advisory Committee on Minority Veterans of the Department. (E) The Advisory Committee on Women Veterans of the Department. (F) The Advisory Committee on Homeless Veterans of the Department. (c) Publication Not later than 30 days after submitting the report under this section, the Secretary shall publish such report on the open data website of the Department, with all metrics and data included in a machine readable format.