Census - Enterprise Data Lake (EDL)
Investment ID: 006-000000136
Overview
Program Title
Census - Enterprise Data Lake (EDL)
Description
Enterprise Data Lake is a flexible data repository intended to provide the Census Bureau with a next-generation scaling capability to fulfill data storage, reporting, analytics, and security needs while reducing costs associated with duplicative data silos.
Type of Program
Major IT Investments
Multi-Agency Category
Not Applicable
Investment Detail
The EDL investment will support the Census's data and analytical needs in a secure, scalable, high performance storage and computing cloud environment with appropriate backups to Census data center. This platform will increase the Bureau's capability to ingest the ever increasing volume of administrative records, improve the quality of data produces and apply disclosure avoidance to protect PII data as required by Title 13, Title 26, and he other data protection laws.