Federal CIOs, CDOs, and agency data leaders, as well as technology vendors and systems integrators developing solutions for government AI modernization and secure data infrastructure.
Federal AI readiness is not primarily a technology challenge — it is a data governance and infrastructure modernization challenge, with many agencies still unable to fully inventory their own data assets.
64% of survey respondents cite data sovereignty and residency as top security concerns, driving growing acceptance of on-premises, controlled, and auditable storage environments over public cloud.
Agencies are trapped between cloud cost growth and rising expectations for data custody — hybrid, cloud-agnostic architectures with bidirectional portability are the recommended path forward.