Edge computing is the collection of technologies and capabilities necessary to enable processing of sensor data in real time, generate insights from that data, and interact with that data through applications in a distributed manner with varying levels of connectivity. Fog computing is a selective filter and provides additional data management and analysis between data at the Edge by sending it back to the Cloud for additional processing.

The US Army C5ISR Center, Engineering & Systems Integration (ESI) is interested in receiving information from companies that have policy driven technologies for Identity, Credential and Access control (ICAM) and dynamic access control solutions at a technology readiness level (TRL) of 6 or higher.

The WRIVA Program aims to develop software algorithm-based systems that can create photorealistic, navigable three-dimensional site models using a highly limited corpus of imagery, to include ground level imagery, surveillance height imagery (traffic camera), UAV altitude imagery, and Satellite imagery...

US Food Drug and Administration (FDA) Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) is interested in improving and validating their understanding of the worldwide Active Pharmaceutical Ingredients (API), their manufacturing facilities and their activities, and recognizing the critical importance that API manufacturers have in producing safe and effective drugs.

• USDA Sugar Production Data - Dept. of Agriculture
• White Papers for 2022 INSCOM Technology RFI - Dept. of Defense
• License Subscription Fees (Janes Digital Platform) - Dept. of Defense

SITE Intelligence Group will provide email news alerts, sector-specific analytical reports, and real-time feeds of terrorist-related data sourced from hard-to-reach online forums, as well as access to a global data set of confirmed terrorist and violent extremist online content sourced to proclamations, media, and online chatter for up to 20 users, renewable on an annual basis.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), Contracting Operations Branch (COB) intends to award a sole source firm fixed price purchase order with a base period of one year and four one year option periods to Capital Economics (N.A.) Limited for subscription services to access datasets Commodities Overview, Emerging Markets, Global Economics, and Latin American and use of the Capital Economics Interactive data tool.

This is a notice of intent to sole source for the renewal of the annual subscription to the Lexis+, CourtLink and Accurint databases.

FIA is seeking spatially explicit, parcel ownership data for the US.

• Notice of Intent - Long Term Outcomes Employment Related Data - Dept. of Health and Human Services
• Notice of Intent to Sole Source - Dow Jones & Co - Dept. of Energy

BlackSky Awarded Five-Year Joint Artificial Intelligence Center Contract for AI Data Readiness

Dept. of Defense

“From automatically tasking satellites to the low-latency delivery and analysis of high-frequency geospatial imagery and non-imagery data, our unique, data-rich platform brings a strong source of core AI-enabled end-to-end capabilities to the DoD’s mission sets,” said O’Neil.

Spire Global Awarded $6 Million NASA Contract Extension for Earth Observation Data

NASA

“The CSDA Program offers Earth observation data that is critical to the efforts of U.S. government agencies and researchers working to solve some of the biggest challenges we face, such as climate change,” said Chuck Cash, Vice President of Federal Sales, Spire.

DLA preparing for data analytics to become 'weapon system of the future'

“In today’s day and age, where data is is deemed a weapon — or they even say data analytics platform is almost like a weapon system of the future for the Department of Defense — we really need to be prepared and equipped to have access to our data very quickly, be able to understand our data, and not do what we’ve done in the past, which is really rely on a single person who has all of the knowledge,” Saul said.

The Pentagon's plan for 'responsible AI'

The 47-page document outlines the Pentagon's plan to incorporate its two-year old ethical AI principles throughout a system's design, development, and use. Each of the six tenets – governance, warfighter trust, product and acquisition, requirements validation, the responsible AI ecosystem, and workforce – includes lines of effort, goals, and estimated timelines. 

New intel program will tap AI to help personnel ‘walk through’ unfamiliar areas before they arrive

Through its new Walk-Through Rendering Images of Varying Altitudes (WRIVA) program, the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) will foster technology to acquaint government officials with potentially dangerous places before they deploy there.

IARPA researchers want immersive, 3D imagery for training and simulation

An Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity broad agency announcement, which was issued in partnership with the Department of Interior, calls for the development of software systems “that can create photorealistic, navigable site models using a highly limited corpus of imagery” taken from the ground, traffic cameras, unmanned aerial vehicles, and satellites.

• IARPA Explores AI to Reimagine Physical Safety and Combat Disinformation
• Digital identity challenges could be a roadblock to improved CX
• The Pentagon should keep better tabs on IT cybersecurity, supply chain risks, GAO says

Recognising the human side of data fabric

Data can be said to be an organisation’s most valuable asset. Organisations are finding more interesting and innovative things to do with data. A data fabric brings all this data together, catalogues it, subjects it to rules and policies and makes sure that data is accessible where and when it’s needed. Public sector organisations are planning or have implemented a data fabric architecture to power strategic, data-driven services critical to their organisation’s digital transformation mission.

China maps out digital government plan to 2035 as Beijing taps technology to improve its overall efficiency and control

In the blueprint published on Thursday, titled Guidelines for Strengthening the Construction of Digital Government, China’s State Council said that it aims to build a comprehensive data-driven system by 2025 to help the government to draw up scientific, accurate and efficient governance policies. By 2035, the government will be transformed digitally and achieve a higher governance capacity, according to the document.

Government insiders say digital IDs could make massive fraud events rare

When looked at through the lens of identity fraud in the United States, the pandemic has showed how poorly government systems performed in safeguarding an unprecedented emergency relief program. On the other hand – and this hand is not steady – it has been the catalyzing event that could propel the nation into digital IDs, making government services faster, cheaper and more secure.

Panel on use of facial recognition by UK police breaks issue down for lawmakers

The Biometrics Institute’s Isabelle Moeller and Roger Baldwin presented their organization’s perspective on ethical use of biometric technology, and the resources it has developed. Baldwin differentiated between the biometric verification typical at borders and 1:N identification performed by police during investigations, as well as live and retrospective or forensic facial recognition.

• Has one US state discovered the secret to successful government data sharing?
• States need to invest in unemployment systems, Labor secretary tells Congress
• Data literacy for government impact
• Inside New Jersey's data-driven content strategy to boost service delivery 

Google claims quantum advantage for machine learning

“Unlike previous quantum advantage demonstrations, no advances in classical computing power could overcome this gap,” the researchers who carried out the experiment wrote. “This is the first demonstration of a provable exponential advantage in learning about quantum systems that is robust even on today’s noisy hardware.”

Octo Launches Data Mesh Platform for Federal Government Agencies

The company said Tuesday the offering builds on the four core principles of data mesh that allow users to enable data ownership by domain, manage data as a product, deploy self-service capabilities and achieve federated computational data governance.

Esri releases ArcGIS GeoAnalytics Engine, enabling comprehensive spatial analysis for Big Data

Data scientists can perform spatial analysis wherever their data is stored—in a data lake, a data warehouse, or ArcGIS software—saving the time and cost of moving volumes of data out of cloud environments. The product is a comprehensive library of spatial analytics that is native to Spark, a unified analytics engine for big data and machine learning.

The omnichannel analytics solutions for customer engagement

Adobe recently announced new services in Adobe Analytics, delivering a single workspace for brands to unify data and insights across all media types—now including the metaverse and streaming media.

• Executive Spotlight: Portia Crowe, Chief Data Strategist for Defense and Applied Intelligence at Accenture Federal Services
• Recorded Future Announces Second Investment in Cyber Threat Cognitive Intelligence (CTCI)
• Tillful Announces Partnership With Experian to Help Small Businesses Get the Credit They Deserve
• ID.me Obtains ISO and SOC Certification Amidst Layoffs
• FreeWheel rolls out ad identity initiative
• Military AI speeds up human decision-making

U.S. Army C5ISR Center Combined Joint Systems Integration Laboratory (CJSIL) Virtual Open House

The goal of this CJSIL Virtual Open House (Replay) is to inform industry on the mission of the CJSIL, overview existing capabilities within the laboratory, and discuss new capabilities the CJSIL is exploring for the laboratory. Additionally, the event will overview how technologies are incorporated into experimentation performed at the CJSIL, including how and with whom vendors can engage/propose technologies for experimentation.