When FEMA tasked the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) with constructing alternate care facilities (ACFs) during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic to meet the high demand for care, they did not yet know that this project would also call for solving to two huge data challenges. The first was to implement a fast and efficient way to collect geospatial data, and the second was to integrate this new data system with their legacy and proprietary data systems. It was USACE’s ability to solve these data challenges that would pave the way for seamless coordination between multiple levels of government and both the private and public sector, leading to the swift construction of ACFs.
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