Nabeela Barbari, GDIT’s Business Area Vice President for Cyber, Law Enforcement, Intel and Citizenship, recently joined the Billington Cybersecurity Cyber and AI Outlook Series to talk about how agencies can set goals and track outcomes to ensure they’re getting the best return on their AI investments.
Alongside leaders from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Cybersecurity Operations Center at the U.S. State Department, the Government Accountability Office, and the Treasury Department, Nabeela discussed establishing mission-aligned goals for AI systems, measuring true cybersecurity outcomes and tracking effectiveness over time.
“Federal systems integrators have a responsibility to start with the outcome in mind,” she said. “At the beginning of any AI project, we start with a conversation on outcomes and on baselining and KPIs. You have to have a conversation around two types of performance metrics: the AI and the mission. Did the tool work, and did it minimize risk or advance the mission? You need to have conversation on both.”
