SDSC’s PACE program comes as the administration’s Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) last month announced $200 million in funding for new investments in big data research and development projects with the announcement of its Big Data initiative. With support of the National Science Foundation (NSF), and to achieve their goals of leveraging data-intensive tools to aid in the country’s research, defense and economic programs, the White House and the OSTP are bringing together six federal agencies or departments, including Homeland Security, the Department of Defense (DoD), the Department of Energy (DOE), the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). Guided by industry representatives, PACE will lead collaborative and coordinated nationwide education and training efforts to build a competitive workforce in data management and analysis, in part by developing and promoting a new, multi-level curriculum to involve all individuals in the field of predictive analytics. To read more, please visit http://pace.sdsc.edu/node/88.