Welcome to Carpe Datum’s Federal Data Prospector (Vol. 3, Issue 1) newsletter. With the Holidays kicking into high-gear, the Government’s procurement engine finally seems to be slowing down just a tad. Ultimately, it’s hard to tell if this shift has more to do with the season of the year or the Nation’s official commencement of the Presidential Transition process. Either way, your friends at Carpe Datum will be on this wall for you…waiting, searching and finding those juicy Data & Analytics opportunities for you!
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Sources Sought – US Department of Agriculture/Rural Development -- Common Enterprise Loan Origination and Servicing (CELOS) Platform – Rural Development will implement a Common Enterprise Loan Origination and Servicing (CELOS) platform that uses industry standard forms, data sets, and data definitions utilizing low-code/no-code solutions. The preferred solution will include the use of Commercial-off-the-Shelf (COTS) / Government-off-the-Shelf (GOTS) products, Data as a Service (DaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), and Software as a Service (SaaS). The solution should have the capability to integrate all customer data so that RD has an enterprise view for customer relationships. The solution may use operational data stores and must store all data in a central data repository. The solution must provide an enterprise data dictionary.
In other data news, on December 11th, Federal News Network published an interesting article entitled Contagion of fraud: PPP exploits designed to bypass ID verification in which the author, Jonathan McDonald, highlights how most government agencies aren’t in the business of looking for significant technologies that are available to keep fraudsters in check. Their main job is simply to look out for consumers and the economy on an everyday level.
- “Nevertheless, good technologies do exist that can help stop criminal activity within support programs, and organizations are already using these tools effectively. Government agencies can leverage these technologies and potentially save millions or even billions of dollars, which can lessen anxiety about the ballooning national debt and free resources up for a more effective COVID-19 response. And so, education and awareness about these technologies is vital.”
The Carpe Datum Team
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RFI: Geospatial Predictive Analysis
USSOCOM
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THIS IS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION (RFI) ONLY to identify sources that can provide continued support of this USSOCOM Program... |
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HUD’s Annual Homelessness Assessment Report and Homelessness Data Exchange Applications
Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
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The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is issuing this sources sought synopsis as a means of conducting market research to identify parties having an interest in and the resources to support this requirement for HUD’s Annual Homelessness Assessment Report and Homelessness Data Exchange Applications (AHAR/HDX)... |
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TECHNOLOGY/BUSINESS OPPORTUNITY Autonomous Vehicle Collision Avoidance Using Traffic Management Data
Dept. of Energy
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Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory (LLNL), is offering the opportunity to enter into a collaboration to further develop and license its novel collision avoidance technology for unmanned vehicles using sensor data and traffic management information... |
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Real Estate Data Subscription Service for the Albuquerque District Corps of Engineers
Dept. of Defense
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This is a non-personal services contract to provide an on-line subscription service to a real estate specific database... |
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Sole Source Subscription Renewal to CQ Roll Call, Inc.
International Trade Commission
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The USITC anticipates award of a Purchase Order, on a sole source basis, to CQ-Roll Call, Inc. for the annual renewal of the subscription CQ-Roll Call, Inc, which provides the USITC with exclusive coverage of all Congressional activities including bill text, Committee Reports, testimonies, floor votes, schedules, news and custom alert service... |
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NOTICE OF INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE - Subscription to WSJ Pro Bankruptcy and Venture Capital add-ons
Dept. of the Treasury
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The Office of Business Solutions Acquisition (OBSA); Treasury Operations Branch, intends to negotiate a sole-source acquisition with Dow Jones & Company for subscription services to Wall Street Journal’s Pro Bankruptcy and Venture Capital premium packages with the approximate start date of February 1, 2021... |
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Law Enforcement Investigative Database Subscription (LEIDS)
Dept. of Homeland Security
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Special Notice Updated - December 7, 2020 |
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NGA Commercial Data and Analytic Services Planned Investment Areas for FY21 Industry Day
Dept. of Defense
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Opening Remarks - December 9, 2020 |
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Identifying and Enabling Emerging Technology Leaders
Dept. of Defense
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Amendment December 8, 2020 |
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Global Banking Resource and Banker's Almanac Subscription
Dept. of the Treasury
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Questions and Answers - December 9, 2020 |
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Palantir lands $44.4M FDA contract for data management and analytics platform |
The Food and Drug Administration awarded a $44.4 million contract to Palantir Technologies to develop an enterprise data management and analytics solution to support human drug reviews... |
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New White House guidance downplays important AI harms |
Following a February 2019 executive order, the U.S. Office of Management and Budget (OMB) issued its final guidance on the regulation of artificial intelligence (AI) on November 17, 2020... |
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US Govt, States Sue Facebook for 'Predatory' Conduct |
The U.S. government and 48 states and districts sued Facebook Wednesday, accusing it of abusing its market power in social networking to crush smaller competitors and seeking remedies that could include a forced spinoff of the social network’s Instagram and WhatsApp messaging services... |
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Artificial Intelligence in Government and the Presidential Transition: Building on a Solid Foundation |
Here are the key steps that the incoming Biden administration should take to make the federal government AI-ready... |
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How Bad Data Is Undermining Big Data Analytics |
One of the biggest challenges many face with Big Data is that it is unstructured, often of low quality and inaccurate data... |
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What Other Countries Can Learn from the UK’s Data Strategy |
The United Kingdom may be the European country with the largest tech ecosystem with a third of Europe’s tech unicorns, more AI companies and startups than France and Germany combined, and 35 world-renowned research centers—but it does not intend to rest on its laurels... |
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AI Is Reshaping the US Approach to Gray-Zone Ops |
Artificial intelligence and machine learning tools aren’t just for big hot wars, but also for places where the battle lines aren’t clear... |
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Novetta advances analytics and high-end technology to address challenging government missions |
While there is a traditional belief that government processes are slow, laborious and generally behind best commercial practices, this isn’t always true... |
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Domo Supports the Smartronix Team to Deliver Real-time Tracking of COVID-19 Response Spending for the Federal Government |
Domo announces being part of the Smartronix Team in supporting the launch of the Pandemic Response Accountability Committee’s (PRAC) public website... |
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IRI and 1010data Partner to Develop New Data Democratizing Solutions |
IRI®, a global leader in innovative solutions and services for consumer, retail and media companies, and 1010data, a leading provider of analytical intelligence to the financial, retail and consumer goods markets, today announced their partnership to focus on democratizing data-driven analytics across organizations in the CPG ecosystem, leveraging both companies' data, technology, relationships and expertise... |
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ROSS Intelligence will shut down amid lawsuit from Thomson Reuters |
ROSS Intelligence, which launched an AI-based legal research platform six years ago, announced Friday that it plans to cease operations early next year because of an ongoing copyright infringement lawsuit that Thomson Reuters brought against the company... |
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Advancing Data Policy in 2021: A Preview of the Year Ahead |
Wed, Dec 16, 2020 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM EST
As the country emerges from the 2020 election cycle and plans for the 117th Congress and new officials in leadership positions across the Executive Branch, join thought leaders from the Data Coalition membership to discuss opportunities in the year ahead.
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