Information management professionals, whether they are federal employees or contractors, are faced with certain challenges when working within the Federal government. Whether those challenges are due to legislation or regulations, hierarchical oversight, multiple streams of guidance, or compliance with government directives, there are great opportunities for implementing best practices in information management and governance. This special interest group discussion will provide an open forum for identifying relevant issues associated with these, and other contexts:
 
     - Federal Enterprise Architecture/Data Reference Model
     - Privacy Act
     - The Data Quality Act
     - Data Exchange and Data Sharing
     - Consolidation of application systems
     - Metadata management and Metadata registries
     - The Federal Metadata Management Consortium

Ms. Young is one of the leading proponents of sound information management principles and practices, and enterprise-wide information stewardship. Her professional objective is to provide leadership in improving, safeguarding, and effectively leveraging information resources within the global aerospace community. As the FAA Data Registrar, in the FAA Office of Information Services and Chief Information Officer, she is responsible for the implementation of the FAA's Enterprise Data Management Program. She is also leading international efforts in data standardization and data quality improvement of aviation safety information. Ms. Young is cofounder and leader of an interagency organization - the Federal Metadata Management Consortium (FMMC). The FMMC is focused on implementing sound metadata management practices and sharing metadata management resources across the federal government. Ms. Young's professional experience spans over two decades of progressively increasing technical and theoretical challenges within the information service industry. During the course of her career, Diana has provided a wide variety of information resource management services both in the private and public sectors. She has specialized in the areas of information /data management program and policy definition, information stewardship and quality program development, and information quality assessment and improvement practices. She has provided both educational and practical support in strategic information resource management planning, information architecture definition, enterprise modeling, metadata definition and management, information stewardship, and enterprise information/data quality analysis.