VOLUME 3. ISSUE 5.

Welcome to Carpe Datum’s Federal Data Prospector (Vol. 3, Issue 5) newsletter. For all of us looking for a major turn-around in 2021, it might be time to re-calibrate just a smidge and focus instead on smaller, more incremental improvements in this new year! In the meantime, we noticed a significant increase in both relevant news articles/media announcements, as well as some very promising federal opportunities – so, we've got that going for us, which is nice.   As always, please share our pub with a friend/colleague and spread the word about Carpe Datum - Click on this link to sign-up co-workers.    Request for Information (RFI) – National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) - Homeland Infrastructure Foundation Level Data (HIFLD) Business Points Data – the following geospatial requirements outline NGA’s request to extend foundational content by acquiring registered business records at locations where the primary use of the structure(s) and land is associated with the respective priority sector and feature type activities listed below in section 3.1.2. This geospatial content shall provide accurate locational data, and proper categorization of feature types in order to correctly identify, aid, and expedite response/recovery efforts to emergencies and natural disasters. The data shall NOT include businesses that are located in structures primarily used as residences (e.g. homes, apartments, condos) and businesses whose sole location is identified as a PO Box.   In other data news, on January 7th, Homeland Security Today published an interesting article entitled PERSPECTIVE: How Do We Find the Real Criminals? in which the author, Gary M. Shiffman, poses the question of how do public security professionals discover the most dangerous people so that they can invest their time in delivering the biggest impact?   “Screening is the important idea — discovery of the unknown and successful criminal. Proactively fighting crime means finding good leads; the good leads come from good screening technology. This technology didn’t exist five years ago, but it does today, and I have seen the impact firsthand. Machine Learning has led law enforcement to leads on child exploitation perpetrators, drug traffickers, money launderers, and terrorist financiers. In a recent independent test, a Machine Learning platform was shown to have discovered 600 percent more criminal leads in a population than the leading name-matching list provider uncovered.” The Carpe Datum Team

Issuer Credit Rating Office of the Comptroller of the Currency This is a requirement for Issuer Credit Rating. See the attached combined synopsis/solicitation document for full details...

Knowledge Aided GEOINT Latency Reduction (KAGLR) Dept. of Defense The Air Force Research Laboratory is soliciting white papers under this Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) for research, development, integration, test and evaluation of technologies/techniques to provide geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) in all its forms and from whatever source...

HQ USSOCOM Architecture Solution Dept. of Defense HQ USSOCOM is seeking information from qualified sources to provide a capability that enables DoD, Interagency, and international users to access and leverage PAI, providing increased situational awareness by leveraging Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) technologies and state-of-the-art analytic Tool Kits...

IRS-EDCMO-RFI-UPDATE Dept. of The Treasury Specifically, this posting will: 1) Provide context around general themes the RFI responses indicated, as well as the number of responses; 2) Provide additional information regarding the scope of work pertinent to the general themes of the RFI responses as well as updates from EDCM; 3) Provide the current acquisition strategy for the requirement; and, 4) Provide a list of future industry partner engagement efforts...

FDA DATA DASHBOARDS & ANALYTICS - Dept. of Health and Human Services GEOINT Tradecraft Suite (GTS) RFI - Dept. of Defense Transparent, Integrated, Autonomous Multi-Level Access and Transfer (TIAMAT) - Dept. of Defense Customer Experience, Cross Agency Priority Goal - Journeys and Personas - Dept. of the Treasury

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 RFI Questions and Answers, RAVn RFI - January 7-8, 2021

Multi-Source Exploitation Assistant for the Digital Enterprise (MEADE) Dept. of Defense 18-05 Amend 7 2020 - January 4, 2021

Common Enterprise Loan Origination and Servicing (CELOS) Platform Dept. of Agriculture 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...

Project Convergence 21 Industry Round Table - ARMY FUTURES COMMAND Dept. of Defense PC21 Industry Round Table QA - January 4, 2020

Just-In-Time Multi-Mission Warfighter Needs Statement - Dept. of Defense Country Risk/Country Industry Reports - US International Development Finance Corporation Energy/Power Data - Dept. of Justice 2021 Broad Agency Announcement: Development and Demonstration of Mine Safety and Health Technology - Dept. of Health and Human Services RFI: Geospatial Predictive Analysis - Dept. of Defense OFFICIAL RFP -Information Technology and Database Applications Support Services (ITDASS) - Dept. of Commerce

BlackSky awarded IARPA contract to develop platform for global construction monitoring using next-generation Artificial Intelligence BlackSky, a leading provider of global monitoring services and geospatial insights, announced an award from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) for a multi-phase, multi-year research contract...

Panalgo's IHD Platform to Be Used by the European Medicines Agency for Real-World Data Analytics Panalgo, a leading healthcare analytics company, today announced that its Instant Health Data (IHD) platform will be used by the European Medicines Agency (EMA) to facilitate the analysis of real-world data...

CBP 2021-2026 Strategy Emphasizes Investments in Tech, Intel, Workforce U.S. Customs and Border Protection added new mission and values statements and “a set of Enduring Mission Priorities that describe our core missions in a succinct and meaningful way” to its 12 strategic objectives to shape the agency’s 2021-2026 strategic plan, which is focused on investments the agency needs to confront future challenges and threats...

How IT modernization has helped HUD better manage its finances IT modernization proved critical to the Department of Housing and Urban Development issuing a clean, audited financial statement for the first time in eight years in December...

NIST updating guidance on facial recognition algorithms The pandemic has inspired new uses for facial recognition software, but may require tweaking of algorithms. Masks, which leave only the forehead, eyes and maybe the bridge of the nose exposed, can make it harder to identify people accurately – especially for law enforcement...

NGA Uses Secure, Unclassified Cloud to Facilitate Remote Work The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency has found ways to adapt its workflows to support users working from home during the pandemic...

National Security Experts Urge DOD to Fully Commit to Tech Development Matthew Graviss Named State Department’s First Chief Data Officer What AI Can and Cannot Do for the Intelligence Community NYSTEC to Help DHS S&T Scout Technologies Fountainhead Signs Deal to License Biz2X SBA Platform for PPP Loans, Other SBA Programs

Frontex Seeks Industry Assistance with Maritime Surveillance and Return/Reintegration Frontex, the European Border and Coast Guard Agency, is inviting industry to present innovations in border security...

Digital Health 2021: Trends in Big Data, AI, Telehealth, and Beyond Ropes & Gray attorneys examine key trends they expect in 2021 in the digital health and health-care space, including the continued expansion of big data, AI, and telehealth, and a movement toward increased portability of patient health information...

X Analytics: A New Approach to Data That Accelerates Digital Transformation X Analytics, a term recently coined by the Gartnerresearch firm, is the ability to run any type of analytics on all of an organization’s structured and unstructured data, no matter where or in what format that data resides...

As Jack Ma reportedly lays low, Chinese regulators are trying to push his fintech giant Ant Group to share consumer data with Beijing, according to the WSJ UK government funds project to track maritime shipping emissions with satellite analytics Maria Roat on Upcoming Federal Data Strategy 2021 Action Plan

ID Insight launches FI fraud investigation network ID Insight, a Minneapolis-based national leader in developing solutions to prevent account takeover and new-account fraud, announced today that it is applying its award-winning fraud-mitigation technology to launch the Fraud Investigation Network SM, creating the unprecedented level of industry collaboration needed to detect and shut down fraud rings and schemes that target financial institutions...

Informatica’s journey to the cloud Informatica’s introduction of more flexible pricing for its cloud services is the latest step in its evolution to becoming a service provider. It marks a good example of how this transition is a learning experience for established enterprise software providers whose roots began in the data center...

SRAX Announces Crypto Pioneer and Digital Media Veteran Lou Kerner as Chief Executive Officer of BIGtoken SRAX, Inc. (NASDAQ: SRAX), a financial technology company that unlocks data and insights for publicly traded companies, announced that Lou Kerner will be appointed Chief Executive Officer of BIGtoken, a wholly-owned subsidiary of SRAX...

FiscalNote Announces Acquisition of FactSquared FiscalNote, a global technology company that provides software and political intelligence around legislative and regulatory risk, announced that it has acquired AI-enabled transcription and alternative data firm FactSquared...

The End of the Data Broker Model and the Rise of the Data Marketplace Palantir Technologies Expands Japan Business with New $22‌.5 Million Spiceworks Ziff Davis Acquires Aberdeen Kharon And Accuity Partner To Advance Sanctions-Related Risk Screening Equifax will pay $640 million for Kount’s AI-driven identity and fraud prevention tools Netwise, Bombora’s Valued Partnership Brings Unique B2B Data Usage To Customers TechTarget Acquires Enterprise Strategy Group To Expand Content Base Moody’s Acquires Proptech Firm Catylist HG Insights Receives Investment From Riverwood Capital Partners CoreLogic : Partners with Freddie Mac to Help Automate Income Calculation and Analysis for Self-Employed Borrowers Narrative Integrates New Consumer Data Source Into Its Data Streaming Platform

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