Welcome to Carpe Datum’s weekly newsletter, the Federal Data Prospector (Vol. 3, Issue 41). As we close in on the end of FY21 and approach the beginning of a new fiscal year for the federal government, the two featured items in this week’s newsletter accurately reflect the overall dichotomy of views within this marketplace around the public sector’s use of Data & Analytics --specifically speaking, consumer data. On one hand, you have the DoD and the Intelligence Community making an open call to industry for a wide variety of data sources, analytic techniques, and technologies to meet the ever-evolving needs of the country’s national security operations. Conversely, the featured news article in the newsletter describes the more than twenty-year battle on Capitol Hill, and beyond, around the government’s use of individual's personally identifiable information (PII) within highly controversial “mass surveillance” systems. We hope you enjoy, enlighten and enrich yourself by taking a moment to read our Federal Data Prospector!
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Broad Area Announcement (BAA) – Department of the Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command, AFRL -- Geospatial-Intelligence Processing and Exploitation (GeoPEX) – The Department of Defense (DoD) and the Intelligence Community (IC) intend to meet future customer intelligence needs through anticipatory analysis that is both robust and holistic. GEOINT encompasses all aspects of imagery and includes, but is not limited to, data ranging from the ultraviolet through the microwave portions of the electromagnetic spectrum, as well as information derived from the analysis of literal imagery; geospatial data; georeferenced social media; and information technically derived from the processing, exploitation, literal, and non-literal analysis of spectral, spatial, temporal, radiometric, phase history, polarimetric data, fused products, and the ancillary data needed for data processing and exploitation, and signature information (to include development, validation, simulation, data archival, and dissemination).
- “Meanwhile, TIA and its concepts continue to spread across intelligence agencies, law enforcement, private companies, and mercenaries. Governments around the world, many with far fewer protections for civil rights, have eagerly adopted its approach, along with its justification, as part of a putative global war on terror. And collecting this personal data has never been easier. The U.S. government needn’t issue secret demands or tap cables to obtain individuals’ data: they can simply buy it on the open market from data brokers and facial recognition companies.”
The Carpe Datum Team
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Specially curated data
Dept. of Defense
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The Government is researching the availability of specially curated data that is the product of the translation and synthesizing of global judicial, corporate, and maritime, aviation, and trade data and niche data sets from sources that fall outside of the normal reach of the USG due to their scarcity... |
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Automated Data Collection Reduction and Analysis (DCRA) Framework Request for Information (RFI)
Dept. of Defense
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Army Contracting Command - Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG) in support of the Program Manager (PM) Intelligence Systems and Analytics (IS&A) Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), is conducting a round of market research to further identify commercial items to satisfy automated data collection reduction and analysis capabilities... |
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Development of a nationwide list/directory of qualified appraisers for livestock and poultry appraisal
USDA
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Contract for expansion of national appraiser directory, including information to support remote appraisals... |
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Initiatives Modernization and Support Services (IMSS), U.S. Census Bureau, Economic Program Directorate
US Census Bureau
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The purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to solicit input from the industry regarding their capabilities and past performance in providing Initiatives Modernization and Support Services (IMSS) for the U.S. Census Bureau (USCB), Economic Program Directorate... |
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Request for Information – Synthetic Data for Training Aided Target Recognition (AiTR) Algorithms
Dept. of Defense
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Questions and Answers - Sept. 17, 2021 |
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Intelligence Risk Mitigation Platform
Dept. of Health and Human Services
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Combined Synopsis/Solicitation - Sept. 15, 2021 |
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Access to Publicly Available Electronic Information (PAEI) and Social Media Data
Dept. of Defense
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Question Answer Matrix, Amendment - Sept. 17, 2021 |
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Improving the Cross-Program Data Infrastructure for Foster Care Prevention
Dept. of Health and Human Services
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Sources Sought Notice - Sept. 15, 2021 |
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SITE Subscription
Dept. of Homeland Security
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DHS OPO intends to award a Purchase Order to SITE Intelligence Group (dba IG, LLC) 4938 Hampden Ln Ste. 156, Bethesda, MD 20814 for SITE Subscription Services... |
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Notice of Intent to Sole Source: CFIS Deluxe Enterprise Licensing
Dept. of Justice
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The Executive Office for United States Attorneys (EOUSA), intends to solicit and award a Purchase Order to Action Intelligence Technologies, Inc. (AIT), located at 105 Executive Drive, Suite 200, Dulles, VA 20166... |
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CFTC Sole Source - Global CUSIP Data Provided by S&P Global
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
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The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") intends to negotiate and award a sole-source contract for the procurement of the Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures (CUSIP) Global Services dataset from S&P Global... |
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Fugro wins new contract with US Geological Survey to support national mapping initiatives |
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Continental Mapping Consultants Awarded FEDSIM ASTRO Contract |
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Geospark Analytics wins NGA contract |
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency awarded Geospark Analytics a base year plus four option years contract for their Hyperion artificial intelligence-driven open source global threat intelligence platform and application programming interface (API) earlier this year... |
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NGA to Allow Commercial Sources as Primary |
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, in seeking to harness innovation and aid its workforce in the development of intelligence, is allowing its analysts for the first time to use commercial solutions as primary sources... |
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USDA Chief Data Officer Ted Kaouk moving to OPM in October |
Ted Kaouk, the Agriculture Department’s chief data officer and chairman of the Federal CDO Council, is moving to the Office of Personnel Management... |
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Law Enforcement Reportedly Use Commercial Data for 'Warrantless' Surveillance on Possible Criminals |
Several US federal agencies and state police departments have for years been using data collected by private companies and sold via brokers in the pursuit of criminals, illegal migrants and evidence... |
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Planet provides data to federal civilian agencies under NASA contract |
Researchers delving into climate change, biodiversity loss and other topics through work funded by U.S. federal civilian agencies and the National Science Foundation will have access to Planet Earth-observation data through September 2022... |
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The Unemployment Insurance System Is Set to Get a Tech Makeover — but It Needs Much More, the Biden Administration Says |
The U.S. Digital Service has embarked on a reconstruction that will cover the entire UI system, according to a memo and presentation obtained by ProPublica... |
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How data, analytics and AI power public health |
The pandemic has put a spotlight on how big data and analytics technologies are being used in the public health sector... |
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Clash of the Titans: Government vs. Big Tech Over Your Data |
- Data are essential to civilization...
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New selfie biometrics customers for GetID and Trueface, solutions from Socure and Equifax |
Europe’s largest airline group Ryanair has selected Checkin.com’s GetID for image recognition and face biometrics to enable passengers to complete remote identity verification...
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Alternative Data Provider App Annie and Ex-CEO Fined More than $10M in SEC Fraud Action |
On Tuesday the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) announced the issuance of a cease-and-desist order against App Annie Inc., a data analytics company serving securities trading firms, and its co-founder and former CEO and Chairman Bertrand Schmitt...
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Neustar Security Solutions Becomes Portfolio Company of Golden Gate Capital, GIC |
Neustar Security Solutions will become a new portfolio company of Golden Gate Capital and GIC following the sale of its marketing, risk and communications solutions businesses to TransUnion... |
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Amazon, Microsoft Swoop In On $24 Billion India Farm-Data Trove |
Amazon.com Inc., Microsoft Corp. and Cisco Systems Inc. are among technology giants lining up to harness data from India's farmers in an ambitious government-led productivity drive aimed at transforming an outmoded agricultural industry... |
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Featuring IBM, NASA JPL, KNIME and more:
The 3rd Annual IM Data Conference
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A great opportunity for experts and aspiring data scientists worldwide to learn about the positive social impacts of AI and data science... |
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