Janice deGarmo, acting chief data officer at the State Department, has been appointed as head of a newly established center that seeks to help U.S. diplomats leverage data to make policy and management decisions, FedScoop reported Friday.
The department launched its first Center for Analytics to provide tools, systems and training that can support the country's foreign policy priorities and diplomatic engagements.
DeGarmo concurrently serves as deputy director in the Office of Management Strategy and Solutions, where she leads a team focused on developing guidelines and recommendations to address enterprise-wide management challenges.
She joined the department in 2009 as a senior adviser and previously worked at the Bureau of Labor Statistics as an analyst.