Goals for this session:
• Determine priorities by team (AI/ML, HPC/HTC, IoT) and as a group of similarly-structured CHS services
• Identify which big projects to pursue
• Define
scope of consulting involvement
Desired outcomes:
• Team and group priorities
• Defined scope of consulting support
• Prioritized projects
Background information:
The AI/ML team has provided long-standing support for many projects, and the HPC/HTC and IoT teams have relatively new teams with growing portfolios. Given this experience, so we'd like to discuss the "depth" of assistance we grant. On the one hand, more general support allows us to guide more projects, but deeper technical support allows for better solutions and architectures. These deeper cases also have sometimes resulted in enhanced capabilities for CHS, in the case where a new technology/architecture was pioneered. We see value in dedicated team member time spent on "deep dive" topics in order to maintain technical fluency, learn or develop new functional systems, increase technical returns for CHS, and ultimately and support and promote a modernized federal workforce. We'd like to meet with the teams and leadership to discuss scenarios where consulting has worked very well and instances where it has not worked well to help shape the direction of CHS's AI/ML, HPC/HTC, and IoT programs. This will also be informed by CHS Leadership and the long-term goals of CHS.
