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In other data news, on December 15th, NPR published an interesting article entitled Can Big Data Really Help Screen Immigrants? in which the author, Joel Rose, highlights how U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, hopes to build an automated computer system to help determine who gets to visit or immigrate to the United States..
- “Immigration officials say these concerns are overblown. They insist they are months, if not years, from actually building an algorithm like this. And they're backing away from the original idea of having a computer make the final determination on who gets a visa. "That's just not the case," says Clark Settles, assistant director in charge of National Security Investigations at ICE, who oversees the project. "There's not going to be some A.I., artificial intelligence, making a decision on whether people can come to the country or whether they can stay here."
The Carpe Datum Team
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Request for Information for Task Orders Supporting the HSI Innovation Lab and the Repository for Analytics in a Virtualized Environment (RAVEn) Platform
Dept. of Homeland Security
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In support of its investigations, HSI invests significant time and resources to analyze large volumes of data sourced from multiple data sets in order to understand patterns and uncover associations, links, and leads... |
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Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Requirement for Aggregator Software 12 Month Subscription
Dept. of Defense
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This Request for Quote (RFQ), W91CRB-21-Q-5008, is for the procurement of Media Monitoring News Aggregator Software, 12 month subscription. This requirement is a 100% Total Small Business Set-Aside... |
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NGA Accelerator -- St. Louis GEOINT tech accelerator seeks participants
NGA
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The NGA Accelerator is a first-of-its-kind innovative partnership with the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency and Capital Innovators designed to fund, mentor, and accelerate the growth of next-generation geospatial-intelligence technologies... |
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Homeland Security Startup Studio 2021
Dept. of Homeland Security
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The Homeland Security Startup Studio is a premiere program designed to accelerate and deliver commercial applications of technologies from DHS laboratories and research centers... |
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GLOBAL INSIGHT SUBSCRIPTION
Dept. of Defense
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The Naval Surface Warfare Center (NSWC) Corona Division intends to use other than full and open competition to award a sole source Firm Fixed Price (FFP) contract to IHS Markit... |
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Notice of Intent to Sole Source, CoSTAR Subscription
Dept. of Defense
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Under the authority of FAR 6.302-1, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Norfolk District, intends to procure, on a sole source basis, the CoStar subscription real estate commercial sales database... |
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Elsevier B.V. ScienceDirect online subscription services.
NASA
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The NASA Shared Services Center Contracts Department at Stennis Space Center, MS 39529, hereby formally announces the intent to award a sole source firm–fixed price purchase order on a sole source basis to Elsevier B.V to purchase for agency-wide access to ScienceDirect online subscription services... |
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Intent to Sole Source Subscription
Dept. of Defense
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In accordance with FAR 6.302-1, DLA Energy intends to award a Source Source Firm Fixed Price Contract to Platts for customized reports for DLA Energy's specific petroleum, distribution and shipment program... |
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Law Enforcement Investigative Database Subscription (LEIDS)
Dept. of Homeland Security
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Amendment 0001 signed by CO - December 15, 2020 |
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All Source – Intelligence Application Request for Information (RFI)
Dept. of Defense
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Sources Sought Updated - December 10, 2020 |
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Geospatial Parcel Data
Dept. of Agriculture
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RFI Parcel Data-rev December 11, 2020 |
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Other Transactions @ NGA (OT@NGA): Chain of Custody - Data Integrity
Dept. of Defense
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Data Integrity Five Functional Categories; Chain of Custody RFW Questions Responses - December 10, 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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NATO Awards Threat and Risk Assessment Contract to Geospark Analytics |
Geospark Analytics, developer of applied artificial intelligence (AI) solutions for risk and threat assessment, has been awarded a three-year contract from NATO for use of the company’s Hyperion global threat and risk assessment platform and API... |
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HawkEye 360 to Help NGA Adopt Radio Frequency Data for Analysis; John Serafini Quoted |
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DHS Awards $273M Business Intelligence Support Services Contract to ManTech |
ManTech has won a five-year $273 million contract with the Department of Homeland Security to provide Business Intelligence Support Services (BISS) that advance Customs and Border Protection (CBP) capabilities to preempt acts of crime and terrorism... |
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GAO: Agencies must ramp up supply chain risk management practices |
Most large federal agencies have not implemented supply chain risk management (SCRM) practices that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommend... |
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Open data: A critical tool for the new administration’s COVID-19 strategy |
The Biden administration has emphasized their commitment to creating a robust strategy to fight COVID-19, by strengthening the federal role in addressing the pandemic, prioritizing scientific analysis, and ensuring equitable distribution of vaccines and treatments... |
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Geospatial Intelligence & AI/ML During a Pandemic |
The recent global working climate, altered by COVID-19, has driven considerable change in how the geospatial community delivers support and new capabilities for artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML)... |
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Census Bureau showcases data projects to optimize 2020 population count |
The Census Bureau and its partner agencies hold a treasure trove of data, but continue to recruit outside talent to parse that data into valuable insights... |
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What Will Tech Regulation Look Like in the Biden Era? |
On December 9th, the U.S. government advanced a groundbreaking lawsuit against Facebook, calling for the tech giant to be broken up in response to antitrust concerns... |
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Emerging Tech Gets Off the Ground Amid Pandemic Response |
Drones, thermal imaging and contact tracing got traction in all levels of government as COVID-19 broke down procurement barriers, sped up development and paved the way for getting new tech up and running... |
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Machine learning could be fundamentally unexplainable |
I’m going to consider a fairly unpopular idea: most efforts towards “explainable AI” are essentially pointless. Useful as an academic pursuit and topic for philosophical debate, but not much else... |
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EU’s rejection of US surveillance also tests its commitment to privacy |
Europe has delivered a definitive rebuke of U.S. surveillance powers. Now comes the hard part: deciding how far the bloc will go to protect Europeans' data... |
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Former CIA data science chief hired as CEO of Exovera |
Reston-based defense and government contractor SOS International LLC (SOSi) announced Wednesday it has hired Barbara Stevens, the former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) chief of data science, as CEO of its software subsidiary Exovera... |
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TransUnion and Socially Determined Partner to Improve Health Outcomes By Using SDOH Data & Analytics |
With over 80% of an individual’s health outcome driven by economic and social conditions1, TransUnion Healthcare (NYSE:TRU) announced today an investment in and commercial partnership with Socially Determined, the social risk analytics company... |
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Forcepoint’s Petko Stoyanov: Agencies Should Enable Behavioral Analytics as Part of Zero Trust Journey |
Petko Stoyanov, chief technology officer for global governments at Forcepoint, wrote in an opinion piece published Monday on C4ISRNET that federal agencies looking to implement a zero trust architecture should enable behavioral analytics by consolidating identity platforms...
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S&P Global and IHS Markit Announce Divisional Structure of Combined Company |
S&P Global (NYSE: SPGI) and IHS Markit (NYSE: INFO) today announced the future divisional structure of the combined company, effective upon completing their pending merger... |
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Palantir Technologies: Announces Inaugural Live Demo Day on January 26, 2021 |
Tuesday, January 26, 2021. |. 4:30 PM
Palantir’s product demos will include its Foundry, Gotham, and Apollo platforms. Product leads will show the latest releases of each platform, and describe the upcoming research & development roadmap for 2021...
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