How the FDA is building a secure, AI-ready data foundation on Databricks for Government
Summary
The FDA built HALO, an enterprise data platform on Databricks on AWS GovCloud using Unity Catalog to modernize fragmented pipelines and establish a unified foundation for AI and analytics. The implementation successfully scaled to over 6,000 users while delivering 30% faster SQL queries, a 20% reduction in compute costs, and a 75% decrease in data provisioning time.
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