Erik Price, Data & AI Literacy Workforce Adoption SME
Mr. Erik Price has been serving the US Federal Government and the Intelligence Community (IC) for over 20 years. Through that time, he has championed various emerging technology and information management initiatives, supported workforce planning, worked in a technical computing center at an FFRDC, and has been recognized as a disrupter focused on innovation and the future state.
After serving at multiple agencies, Mr. Price joined the Office of the Director of National Intelligence to lead a digital records management program, to ensure the materials reflecting our valued work are stored, managed, preserved, and remain discoverable. He then served under the IC Chief Data Officer to lead the IC’s Data Acumen strategic initiative to ensure all IC members, regardless of job function, possess knowledge to support a data-driven enterprise. In this role he completed a comprehensive assessment of data acumen at all IC agencies and focused on bringing foundational data skills to diverse groups of IC partners.
Mr. Price served as chair of the DoD-IC Ontologies Working Group, to promote and leverage Data Ontologies to support data interoperability and federated searching. Here he was instrumental in the first ever formal agreement between the DoD CDAO and IC CDO on baseline ontology standards. He also chairs the IC Data Management Lexicon working group, which provides a common understanding and consistent use of data management terms across the IC and with its partners.
Mr. Price was most recently the Deputy Chief of the Innovation and Analytics Group, for the IC’s Human Capital program. In this role he championed the use of data-informed reporting and decisions for workforce needs and trends, advanced analytic insights and visualizations, and injected innovation to posture the IC for the workforce of the future. Academically, Mr. Price holds a Bachelor of Science and Master of Science, both in Systems Engineering from George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia. Erik is passionate about driving the IC forward with data and technology adoption, and establishing the workforce and workplace of the future.
