Welcome to Carpe Datum’s weekly newsletter, the Federal Data Prospector (Vol. 4, Issue 18) which happens to be the only publication of its kind dedicated exclusively to Data and Analytics companies who share our passion for serving the Public Sector. This week’s key themes are open source intelligence, social media tracking software, the FBI’s new Assistant Director of Information Technology Applications and Data Division (Nathan Taylor), and the Bureau’s record-breaking contract award to Babel Street -- following closely behind these exciting topics, we see a continued emphasis on supply chain security analytical tools and platforms, the DoD/IC’s expanding reliance on commercial satellite imagery providers and the Fed’s never-ending push against fraud using a myriad of identity and image recognition tools. What are you seeing out there in the marketplace? Please let us know … we are truly all ears.
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In other data news, on April 6th, The Washington Post published an interesting article entitled, The FBI is spending millions on social media tracking software. In this article, Aaron Schaffer describes how the FBI is doubling down on tracking social media posts, spending millions of dollars on thousands of licenses to powerful social media monitoring technology that privacy and civil liberties advocates say raise serious concerns.
- “The Justice Department has previously had Babel X in its arsenal, contracting records show. But the new contract appears to be by far the most the agency has ever shelled out for the software, and is one of the largest contracts for the software by a civilian agency, experts said. ‘It's both per year the biggest I'm aware of in terms of obligation, and it's also the fact that it's a five-year contract,’ said Jack Poulson, who runs the research advocacy group Tech Inquiry. ‘So if you combine those two things, it's the biggest Babel Street contract I'm aware of.’”
The Carpe Datum Team
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Scalable Science Data Exploration
NASA
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National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)/Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC) is seeking development of tools, services and platform for scalable visualization, exploration, and analysis of science data on the commercial cloud environment... |
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Storage and Management of Chemical and Biological Threat Agent Data
Dept. of Defense
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The Department of Defense (DoD) Joint Program Executive Office for Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear Defense (JPEO-CBRND) is conducting a market survey to identify owners and managers of data repositories to answer a questionnaire that addresses the capabilities of these data repositories...
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Nursing Home Merger Acquisition and Data
Government Accountability Office
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GAO intends to use private equity mergers and acquisitions data to develop a list of nursing homes that were acquired by for-profit
chain and private equity firms from calendar years 2014 through the present...
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Alternative Credit Data Services
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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Amendment - April 4, 2022 |
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Industrial Risk Analysis Services
Dept. of Defense
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Questions for Government - April 1, 2022 |
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FY22-FY26 Strategic Trends Division Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
Dept. of Defense
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Solicitation Updated - April 1, 2022 |
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DLA G2 - Risk Management Subscription
Dept. of Defense
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Sources Sought Updated - April 1, 2022 |
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Dow Jones Factiva and WSJ Pro
Dept. of the Treasury
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The Bureau of the Fiscal Service (Fiscal Service), on behalf of the Office of Financial Research (OFR) and the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), intends to contract with Factiva, Inc. at 4300 N Rt 1 820 Ridge Rd, Monmouth Junction, NJ 08852, on a sole source basis... |
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Notification of the SEC's Intent to Award a Single Source Purchase Order for Equities Risk Factor Model data subscription
Securities and Exchange Commission
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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) intends to award a fixed-price purchase order on a single source basis to Barra, LLC for a fundamentals-based risk model subscription, including historical data sufficient for calculations... |
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Building a Validation Server for Administrative Tax Data
National Science Foundation
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This sole source action is to issue a contract tothe Urban Institute for the unsolicited proposal titled, “Building a Validation Server for AdministrativeTax Data.” ... |
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FBI purchases 5,000 licenses for Babel X social media OSINT tool |
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has purchased 5,000 licenses for an analytics tool for gathering open-source intelligence from multiple social media platforms... |
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IDEMIA NSS Provides Biometric Security for Redstone Arsenal Army Site |
IDEMIA’s National Security Solutions (NSS) subsidiary will be deploying biometric and digital access control technology at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Alabama...
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Altamira Technologies Awarded JWAC CAPCON Data Services Task Order |
Altamira Technologies Corporation, a world class engineering and analytics technology company, today announced the win of the Joint Warfare Analysis Center (JWAC) Capabilities Contract (CAPCON) Data Services Task Order... |
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Maximus to Help DOD Identify AI Data Use |
Maximus will support the Department of Defense’s Joint Artificial Intelligence Center in AI program data preparation under a basic order agreement...
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National Vetting Center piloting automation of citizenship verification |
Customs and Border Protection plans to pilot technology that would automate the National Vetting Center’s process for verifying whether someone is a U.S. citizen... |
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DOE Allots New Funds for AI Research |
The Department of Energy intends to invest $30M in research efforts on artificial intelligence and machine learning for system management and science projects... |
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Israel’s Planning a Massive Traveler Database. It’s a Hacker Bonanza, Experts Say |
Israel wants to collect the names, passport numbers and even credit cards of every person entering or leaving. ‘We cannot allow ourselves to become a dictatorship,’ experts warn... |
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How U.S. Intel Community, DOD Work With Space Companies On Ukraine |
As Russian forces began to substantially build up on the border with Ukraine, the U.S. intelligence community went to commercial satellite imagery providers with a favor to ask... |
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Thieves Hit on a New Scam: Synthetic Identity Fraud |
In fall 2020, 43-year-old Adam Arena and a dozen suspected co-conspirators were indicted in New York on charges of trying to swindle banks out of more than $1 million through a scheme known as “synthetic identity fraud.”... |
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Virginia's new chief data officer has 'a million' ideas for stateanalytics office |
Ken Pfeil, Virginia’s newly minted chief data officer, said Tuesday that while he’s still getting his bearings in the role, he’s got no shortage of ideas for what the commonwealth’s analytics office can tackle as he begins his tenure... |
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Unique Entity ID Replaces DUNS Numbers in SAM.gov |
The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) has officially transitioned the System for Award Management (SAM.gov) to no longer use data universal numbering system (DUNS) numbers from Dun & Bradstreet (D&B), and now will use government-issued Unique Entity IDs... |
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Ready to boost your business with analytics? This data expert reveals all |
By itself, data is like a bicycle with no wheels. It can’t go anywhere. That’s where the power of analytics comes in... |
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How can US law enforcement agencies access your data? Let's count the ways |
A hack using a forged legal request that exposed consumer data collected by Apple and Meta shed light on the reach of the law... |
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insideBIGDATA Guide to Government - Part 2 |
When governments conduct analytics on their data, the tangible benefits can be wide- ranging: less crime, fewer traffic jams, faster postal services, smarter defense systems, better targeted social programs... |
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Clearview AI to sell technology to private sector as well as government agencies |
Facial recognition technology company Clearview AI is looking to sell services to banks and other private sector companies in addition to working with government agencies...
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Federal News Network's 2022 Industry Exchange: Data |
During Federal News Network’s Industry Exchange: Data, join us as we feature data science experts from across the federal IT industry to share insights about the latest technologies and offer advice for capitalizing on federal data. |
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CITP Seminar: Amy Winecoff - Today’s Machine LearningNeeds Yesterday’s Social Science |
Date: April 19, 2022 Time: 12:30 p.m. ET. Virtual
Research on machine learning (ML) algorithms, as well as on their ethical impacts, has focused largely on mathematical or computational questions...
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