VOLUME 3. ISSUE 36.

Welcome to Carpe Datum’s weekly newsletter, the Federal Data Prospector (Vol. 3, Issue 36). The month of August presents such an unusual dichotomy for those of us who have chosen the path of government contracting (GovCon). On one hand, many people are off taking advantage of these last few days/weeks of summer before the kids return to school, etc.; however, at the same time, with the government’s fiscal year coming to a close at the end of September, there tends to be a mad dash for many federal agencies to “use it or lost it” – referring, of course, to their annual funding allocations. So, whether you’re lollygagging on a beach in the French Riviera or simply stuck working in a dank office park near Riviera Beach, MD, Carpe Datum’s mission is to help you discover all of the relevant opportunities within the federal marketplace for your company's data and data analytics services. Happy hunting!    Please share this publication with anyone who might find it interesting, educational or rewarding - Click here to sign-up for the newsletter.   Request for Quote (RFQ) – The Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Federal Protective Service (FPS), Protective Investigations Division (PID) -- Event Detection Subscription Service - FPS – Federal Protective Service has a requirement for a subscription to a service that will provide real-time detection of event-based, breaking news alerts (“Alerts”) to enable real-time data on known and unknown global emerging events to which FPS may need to respond. Alerts are sourced from publicly available data, information, and materials, including public tweets and other public content made available through Twitter, Inc. and other social media and public message boards (collectively, the “Third Party Materials”), and made available to users via multiple mechanisms including email and dashboard-style interfaces.   In other data news, on August 12th, Yahoo published an interesting article entitled, Google banned a location-tracking company that sold users' data. In the article, Kris Holt describes how Google has banned SafeGraph, a company that captured and sold Android users' location data. Android developers who used the company's software development kit (SDK) were given seven days to remove SafeGraph's location gathering tools from their apps or face possible ejection from the Play Store.    “SafeGraph reportedly sells its location data to almost anyone willing to pay for it. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is said to be among SafeGraph's customers, while The New York Times used SafeGraph data for a project that showed where people were gathering after COVID-19 lockdown restrictions were loosened. The publication told Motherboard that it aggregated the location data. In February, Google took a similar action against Predicio, which is linked to a company named Venntel. Public contracts that emerged last year showed that US Customs and Border Protection bought data from Venntel, reportedly for warrantless phone tracking. Google and Apple both banned X-Mode, another location data broker, last December. Location data brokers sometimes pay app developers to use their tracking code so they can sell the information, which violates Google's rules.” The Carpe Datum Team

Request for Information – Synthetic Data for Training Aided Target Recognition (AiTR) Algorithms Dept. of Defense The United States Army C5ISR Center is issuing this RFI to determine the state-of-the-art and state-of-industry in synthetic data for training Aided Target Recognition (AiTR) algorithms...

Insider Threat Data Subscription Dept. of Defense The Office of Naval Intelligence (ONI) has a requirement for Insider Threat Data Subscriptions. This competition will be based on a firm fixed price Best Value award...

Governmentwide IT Transparency Professional Support Services (GITPSS) GSA The General Services Administration (GSA is issuing this RFI notice to measure the interest and availability of vendors that are experts, managers, analysts and/or specialists that can lead, implement, and support a wide range of improvement initiatives...

Knowledge Aided GEOINT Latency Reduction (KAGLR) Dept. of Defense Pre-solicitation Updated - August 12, 2021

Electronic Data Sets for Real Property Management Tool Dept. of Transportation RFQ Questions - August 11, 2021

Subscription for Virtual Currency Tools for the Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) Dept. of the Treasury Combined Synopsis Solicitation Updated - August 16, 2021

MULTI-SOURCE, MULTI-DOMAIN DATA EXPLOITATION FOR BATTLESPACE AWARENESS AND DECISION SUPPORT Dept. of Defense Pre-solicitation Updated - August 11, 2021

National Level Vehicle Data/Statistics to Support NHTSA Database and Analysis - Dept. of Transportation U.S. Marine Corps Training & Education Command (TECOM) Range and Training Area Management Branch (RTAM) Military Operations Data Support - Dept. of Defense Research on Small Business Topics Using Economic Data - Small Business Administration

Collection of Data and a Subject Matter Expert Dept. of Homeland Security The United States Secret Service intends to negotiate on a sole source basis with LexisNexis Risk Solutions, Inc., 1150 18th Street, NW, Suite 250, Washington, DC 20036 for a collection of data and a Subject Matter Expert...

Notice of Intent to Sole Source - CLEAR Subscription Dept. of Defense This requirement is for Thomson Reuters Consolidated Lead Evaluation and Reporting (CLEAR) Software Subscription...

Notification of the SEC's Intent to award a Single Source Purchase Order for Activist Shorts subscription 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 Insightia Activist Insight for access to the Activist Shorts Database....

Notification of the SEC’s intent to award a sole source purchase order for subscription to leveraged loan data Securities and Exchange Commission The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) intends to use the procedures of FAR Part 13.501(a) to award a fixed-price purchase order on a sole source basis to Capital IQ, Inc. for subscription to leveraged loan data...

Panjiva Subscription - Dept. of Homeland Security Notice of Intent to Sole Source - Bloomberg Anywhere Subscription - Dept. of Justice Dun and Bradstreet Subscription Renewal - Dept. of Defense Sole-Source Notice of Intent for Bloomberg Anywhere Subscription - Dept. of Justice RFQ - Apptopia Mobile Intelligence Data Platform Licenses - Dept. of the Treasury D--Standard & Poor's "Ratings Direct Global" Subscription - Dept. of the Interior Data Resource for Post-marketing Surveillance of Nonmedical Use of Pharmaceuticals and Use of Illicit Drug Substances - Dept. of Health and Human Services Global Trade Atlas Subscription - Dept. of Homeland Security

DoD Awards a $979 Million Contract to Combat Misinformation  The Department of Defense (DoD) awarded a five-year $979 million contract to Peraton to counter misinformation specifically originating from adversaries of the United States...

Novetta to Deploy IoT Platform to Air Force Bases Novetta, a data analytics company, announced it was selected to deploy an internet of things platform to Air Force bases over the next five years...

OMB find agency data needs work to understand inequality in public-facing services The Biden administration is calling on agencies to identify bottlenecks that make their public-facing services inaccessible to certain demographics, and to collect more reliable data on how programs could better serve certain populations...

Labor Dept. to Push Out $500M to Combat UI Fraud, Boost Equity Yesterday, the U.S. Department of Labor announced it would send $500 million to states from three different pots of money to address unemployment insurance fraud and equity. Two of the funding streams involve grants...

The Pentagon is using AI to predict eventsdays into the future It's science fiction turned science fact, but without all the weird gesture-controlled computer systems...

GSA, Executive Councils Seek Vendor to Improve Transparency in IT Acquisition The new Governmentwide IT Transparency Professional Support Services contract will assist a wide swath of GSA’s tech-focused offices, as well as all the federal executive councils...

Digital ID left out of infrastructure bill The bipartisan $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill that passed the Senate on Monday night has billions in technology investments, but a plan to dramatically ramp up the federal government's involvement in digital identity was left on the cutting-room floor...

Top 7 Free Datasets Sources to Use for Data Science Projects Data is preliminary for companies and corporations to analyze and obtain business intelligence. It helps in finding the correlations between the data and the unique insights for a better decision-making process...

How the Supply Chain Can Get its Resiliency Back Shipping delays and material shortages continue making headlines as manufacturers worldwide struggle to meet consumer demand for everything from auto parts to pharmaceuticals...

Through 20 million addresses and 24 states, how this startup sifts and digitises land and property data in India Economist Kshitij Batra and lawyer Rohan Shridhar’s journey of founding Bengaluru-based Terra Economics and Analytics Lab (TEAL) demonstrates how problem solving can lead to unimaginable entrepreneurial solutions...

Karen Britton: Data Can Drive Personnel Management, Equity Efforts Viewpoints: Buffalo should not spend federal dollars on ShotSpotter Dead People Get Millions in Checks as Feud Over Data Endures

Equifax announces acquisitions to expand its fastest-growing business Equifax Inc. is buying two technology companies that will expand its largest and fastest-growing business...

Infutor Adds Total Property Profiles Dataset onSafeGraph Shop Consumer identity management expert Infutor today announced that it has added its Total Property Files dataset to the new SafeGraph Shop which includes energy consumption and county assessor energy level data assets...

Cloudera and Nvidia partnership looks to streamline data science and accelerated workloads The recent partnership between Cloudera Inc. and Nvidia Corp., announced in April, is worth watching as it represents an important step in creating architectures of the future for streamlining data science and machine learning pipelines...

Digital Intelligence Agency Similarweb is Expanding into the DC Region with a New Office in Reston With eyes on local tech talent, digital intelligence agency Similarweb is opening an office in Reston, Virginia, this fall...

Expression Networks, GHX Partner on Development of Supply Constraint PredictiveAnalytics Tool BlackSky and Palantir Collaboration Aids Government Agencies in Predicting Events HG Insights Certifies Commitment to Security and Confidentiality with SOC 2 Compliance Spire and Gravity Supply Chain announce maritime data partnership GovExec Acquires Cutting-Edge Market Intelligence Company, GovTribe, to Expand Services to Government Contractors Thompson Street Capital Partners and Endicott Growth Equity Partners Portfolio Company GovSpend acquires Fedmine Zignal Labs takes media intelligence real time Tamoco partners with Narrative to offer location datasets Geospatial is a natural fit for AI Waycare Acquired by ALPR and Traffic AI Company for $61M MarTech Interview with Erik Matlick, CEO and Founder at Bombora Satellogic + GeoTerraImage Partner To Develop Geospatial Solutions For Africa Introducing eZverifi – a New Disruptive Cutting-edge Technology to Verify the Device Identity of a ...

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