Data Analytics for Leaders

In June, guest speaker Col. Michael A. Boutet, USAF, Individual Mobilization Augmentee (IMA), Headquarters Pacific Air Forces Command, A-3/6 director of Air and Cyberspace Operations, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Hawaii. Col. Boutet discussed data analytics: what they are and what they mean to leaders in the Department of Defense. Col. Boutet is responsible for a 256-person staff; directs 4,000 cyber airmen and manages a $2.5 billion portfolio and $40 million annual budget to provide integrated communications for 46,000 personnel across 10 bases. Prior to his current assignment, Col. Boutet was the IMA to the Air Force Reserve Command's director of communications and chief information officer, Headquarters Air Force Reserve Command, Robins Air Force Base, Georgia. He was responsible for operational policy, strategic guidance, planning and programming and computer and information management systems supporting the command headquarters, Air Reserve Personnel Center, and more than 684 reserve units, including 43 flying wings and 75,000 personnel.

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