VOLUME 3. ISSUE 16.

Welcome to Carpe Datum’s Federal Data Prospector (Vol. 3, Issue 16) newsletter. With March Madness kicking into high gear and Spring trying to break through here in the Nation’s Capital, there’s no shortage of hope and optimism in the air. Luckily, it appears that our friends in the Federal Government share these ebullient feelings and have stocked our weekly rag with lots and lots of promising opportunities for this community to pursue … so, please proceed and pursue at will!   As always, please share our newsletter with anyone you think might enjoy it and derive some value from it - Click here to sign-up.    Request for Information (RFI) – The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (PBGC) Public Records Database Subscription –  The vendor shall provide database access for 40 PBGC users to a web-based public records search system that will be used to assess the ownership records and asset information of corporations. The product must include user access to the following data fields at no additional cost: Full Social Security Number for corporate principals; Telephone numbers for businesses and corporate; Reverse phone; Employer Identification Number for businesses; Consumer reporting information from two real-time credit bureaus; Web analytics that return information not found through public records such as social network pages, blogs, chat rooms, business and political affiliations, news references, professional history, email addresses, personal and business phone numbers; Asset information on vehicles, boats, and real estate owned by individuals; Corporate family tree data that provides historical and current relationships between parent and subsidiary companies; Google Maps compatibility to physically locate/view real estate properties and business locations.   In other data news, on March 22nd, Forbes published an interesting article/interview entitled, Startup ID.me Reaches $1.5 Billion Valuation For Its Identity Software Used By 22 U.S. States. In this article, Alex Conrad, describes how when Californians log on remotely to update their address or change a registration with the local DMV, there’s a good chance they’re using a software tool called ID.me. According to CEO Blake Hall, 38% of the state’s adults have an ID.me account today—some of the million people the service is adding every two weeks.   “While Google and Facebook’s one-click log-in options might be more familiar to Web surfers today, ID.me has built an impressive network through government contracts: 22 states have maintained contracts since August 2020, while agencies like the IRS and Department of the Treasury have signed on to roll out its use, joining longtime customer the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. In 19 states like Georgia, ID.me helps citizens log in to access their unemployment benefits. Soon that will be 30 states, Hall says." The Carpe Datum Team

DOE Announces $34.5M for Data Science and Computation Tools to Advance Climate Solutions Dept. of Energy The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has announced up to $34.5 million to harness cutting-edge research tools for new scientific discoveries, including clean energy and climate solutions....

Procurement to obtain real-time transactional pricing data to improve motor vehicle estimates allowing for seasonal pricing adjustments. Dept. of Commerce BEA has a requirement to obtain additional real-time transactions price data in order to improve the motor vehicles estimates by allowing for seasonal adjustment...

2021 Global Needs Statement Dept. of Defense RRTO is looking for highly innovative technologies that have the potential to provide leap-ahead capabilities against near-peer adversaries and fill gaps in critical joint mission needs no later than 2028. RRTO is focused on technologies within the DoD modernization areas...

Request for Information - National Childhood Cancer Registry (NCCR) Data Platform Dept. of Health and Human Services This Request for Information (RFI) is intended to obtain information to formulate a procurement strategy for a data platform to support the National Childhood Cancer Registry (NCCR), a component of the larger Childhood Cancer Data Initiative (CCDI)...

Notice of Future Artificial Intelligence Exploration Opportunity: In Pixel Intelligent Processing (IP2) - Dept. of Defense NCSES Technical and Analytical Support Services - National Science Foundation CAPABILITIES FOR CYBER ADVANCEMENT - Air Force

Ingestion of Social Media Data (DataMinr incumbant) Dept. of Homeland Security - TSA Estimated Solicitation Release: April 15, 2021 Estimated Dollar Range: $1,000,000.00 to $2,000,000.00 Description: To acquire licenses, support, and maintenance Brand Name or Equal Dataminr First Alert Licenses...

Social Media/Deep/Dark Web (Babel Street incumbant) Dept. of Homeland Security - TSA Estimated Solicitation Release: April 8, 2021 Estimated Dollar Range: $500,000.00 to $1,000,000.00 Description: The tool shall provide accesses to a broad scope of publicly available social media, deep web public records, and also dark web sources such as well-known markets and forums...

Operational Dashboards Dept. of Homeland Security - ICE Estimated Solicitation Release: March 30, 2021 Estimated Dollar Range: $250,000.00 to $500,000.00 Description: This acquisition will provide a proof of concept for multiple Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) operational insight dashboards that support the southwest border and/or ICE leadership priorities...

Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction - Dept. of Homeland Security Cargo Systems Modernization - Dept. of Homeland Security - CBP Imagery Data - Dept. of Homeland Security - CBP

Identity Next Generation - Request for Information Dept. of Defense Vendor Questions and Answers, RFI Identity Commercial Capability - March 24, 2021

Request for Information - CDC Data Acquisition Requirements Dept. of Health and Human Services CDC Responses - Data Acquisition Requirements; Question and Answers - March 23, 2021

PURCHASE OF CREDIT CARD, DEBIT CARD, OR SIMILAR TRANSACTION DATA Dept. of Commerce TOPR Solicitation, QA Updates - March 25, 2021

Request for Information: Strategic Risk Management (SRM) award under the Next Generation Global Health Supply Chain Suite of Programs (NextGen)/Worldwide Agency for International Development Risk Management Question Submission - March 23, 2021

DB10--RFI - Common Operating Platform Supporting Federated Data Management and Operational Decision-Making - Dept. of Veterans Affairs DLA Enterprise Market Research Subscription Tool - Dept. of Defense Collecting Nutrition Data for Top 100 Restaurant Chains - Dept. of Health and Human Services Center for Tobacco Products’ (CTP’s) Office of Compliance and Enforcement’s (OCE’s) data collection, review, compiling, and analysis services IDIQ - Dept. of Health and Human Services

Sole Source Notification Data Subscription Services Dept. of Defense MAXAR Technologies A-Wave data subscription includes the ability for a user/analyst or other user/analyst to upload shape files of geo-boundaries of interest and receive data relevant to their geospatial and time-bound queries...

Notification of the SEC's Intent to Award a Single Source Purchase Order for news and database subscription to Asset-Backed Securities and Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities Securities and Exchange Commission The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) intends to award a fixed-price purchase order on a single source basis to Green Street Advisors, LLC for subscription to global news and statistics on asset-backed and mortgage-backed securitization activities and commercial mortgage-backed securities...

ASPR's Healthcare Data Services Dept. of Health and Human Services The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), intends to make a Sole Source, Firm Fixed-Price award to Definitive Healthcare, for live data feed services that allows use of data in a Geographic Information Systems’ (GIS) spatial database...

D--MOODY'S SUBSCRIPTION - Dept. of the Interior Notice of Intent to Sole Source OptionMetrics Ivy DB US Database Subscription - Dept. of the Treasury Gartner Subscription-based Research and Related Services - Dept. of the Treasury

Codeplay inks landmark deal with U.S. government to enable next-generation supercomputer The AI software firm will work with researchers in the high-performance compute community to analyze big data to simulate future pandemics and other areas...

Missing E-Tran controls saw SBA issue $692M in duplicate pandemic relief loans The Small Business Administration issued $692 million in duplicate pandemic relief loans because it failed to add the proper controls to its electronic application system, according to its Office of Inspector General...

DoD Cloud Exchange: Chris Mayfield, Navy Chris Mayfield works in a world that requires a lot of juggling. As the chief engineer for cloud and DevSecOps for the Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC), Pacific, he’s at the center of scores of product developments for the Navy’s information warfare...

DHS migrating to ‘cloud-first’ identities en route to zero trust Migrating from legacy identity solutions to “cloud-first” identities is the next step in the Department of Homeland Security’s implementation of zero-trust security...

GAO: Government Needs Urgent Actions to Secure Federal Systems, Protect Critical Infrastructure The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has called on the federal government to accelerate efforts to carry out critical actions to address major cybersecurity challenges...

FCC now collecting first-hand consumer data on broadband service, availability FDA Approves Machine Learning Tool for COVID-19 Screening Pandemic Analytics Center of Excellence will help IGs investigate fraud

‘Dark Patterns’ in Consumer Data Privacy Garner Policy Attention California’s first-in-the-nation ban on web and app designs that make it difficult for consumers to control use of their data for advertising could usher in greater regulatory scrutiny of tech companies’ privacy practices...

Why Data Analytics Can Be Compared To A Water Pipeline Today, data is being increasingly seen as a source of competitive advantages for businesses of all sizes today...

The US Government is Using Big Data in Education for Development Even though technology has been at the core of the US’s development for the past few decades, it officially got major recognition during former President Barack Obama’s tenure in office...

Tech industry requests TMF process updates to fast-track COVID-19 and SolarWinds recovery projects Misinformation Plagues Government. Can Technology Help?

QCI Launches Quantum-Powered QGraph™ for Compute-Intensive Graph-Analytics Quantum Computing Inc. (QCI), a leader in bridging the power of classical and quantum computing, has launched QGraph™ which analyzes graphs (i.e., collections of vertices and edges) with QCI’s cloud-based Qatalyst™ ready-to-run quantum software...

Equifax Snaps Up i2verify; Street Sees 21% Upside Data and analytics provider Equifax has acquired income and employment verification provider i2verify. The acquisition will help Equifax expand its automated verification solutions...

Dataminr raises $475M on a $4‌.1B valuation for real-time insights based on 100k sources of public data Significant funding news today for one of the startups making a business out of tapping huge, noisy troves of publicly available data across social media, news sites, undisclosed filings and more...

Neustar Launches Unified Identity Neustar, an information and identity resolution services and technology provider, has released Neustar Unified Identity, an end-to-end identity management solution that enables resolution of offline-to-online identifiers by connecting people, location, and device data...

Hivestack and Bombora Bring B2B Intent Measurement to Programmatic DOOH Marketing Worldwide Deloitte launches new artificial intelligence research center to help advance federal work New industry partnership promises to strengthen authentication security HERE Marketplace includes PlaceIQ data used by marketers to deliver custom services Idemia’s Biometrics Tech Demos Over 95% Accuracy for Masked Subjects During DHS Event FreightWaves acquires ELD Ratings; relaunches as FreightWaves Ratings Exiger Appoints The Honorable Ellen Lord, Former Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment, as Advisory Board Chair and Strategic Advisor Dataminr Announces $475M Financing Round, Raising its Valuation to $4.1B Leading Consumer Identity Resolution Provider FullContact Partners With New Placekey Universal Location ID To Improve Customer Recognition In Real-Time Moody's (MCO) Closes Buyout of Cortera, Boosts MA Division Accenture and Ripjar partner with Shell to enhance supply chain risk screening using AI Cognism embeds 'intent to buy' into prospect database to deliver the hottest leads for business development Scienaptic Partners with Urjanet to Combine the Power of AI and Permissioned Alternative Data What is Nextdoor? How to use the social network for neighborhoods Reltio unifies data sources to deliver customer context in real time

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