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Request for Information (RFI) -- The Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) -- R499 -- Data Management, Data Analytics, and Evidence-Based Policymaking RFI – The Office of Data Governance and Analytics (DGA), within the Office of Enterprise Integration (OEI), is responsible for leading VA data stewardship and governance and providing capstone population-level analytics services, coordination, and oversight. DGA seeks support in the following areas: program and project management; data analytics and visualizations; change management; performance frameworks; strategic communications; technical and programmatic assessment; requirements analysis; metadata management; data quality; data curation and enrichment; data validation; master data services; applications and analytics; and data governance.
In other data news, on December 8th, Nextgov published an interesting article entitled, Senator Doubles Down On Data Privacy, Sends Letter to CFPB. In this article, Alexandra Kelley describes how Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., fresh off of a Senate committee hearing on data broker restrictions, published an open letter to the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau requesting the agency stop credit agencies from selling the personal data of American citizens.
- “In a letter addressed to CFPB Director Rohit Chopra, Wyden refers to data brokers as “shady middlemen” who sell personal and sensitive information of American citizens to various entities. He specifically denounces the federally-recognized credit unions Equifax, Experian and Transunion as examples of credit reporting agencies that sell personal information of clients who request financial data to data brokers.”
The Carpe Datum Team
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Support to Targeting - Intelligence Applications (Intel Apps) Solicitation
Dept. of Defense
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The United States Army Contracting Command - Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG), Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005, on behalf of US Army Project Manager (PM) Intelligence Systems & Analytics (IS&A), intends to solicit and award a new Single Award, Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP), Indefinite-Delivery/Indefinite-Quantity (ID/IQ) type contract with an ordering period of five (5) years... |
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Risk Assessment Support Services - SCRM
Dept. of Defense
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Sources Sought/Request For Information interest for Risk Assessment Support Service - Supply Chain Risk Management capabilities in a classified environment for staff augmentation support... |
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FBI National Cyber Investigative Joint Task Force National Security and Criminal Mission Centers RFI
FBI
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This effort requires the support of cyber intrusion analysts who will review the details of Internet communications that are obtained from FBI field offices, other Government agencies, and FBI partners in order to provide these organizations with investigative and operational leads to enable attribution and link analysis, and coordination... |
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DOJ News Clipping Service
Dept. of Justice
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The purpose of this Request for Information (RFI) is to conduct market research related to the Department of Justice (DOJ), Office of Public Affairs (PAO)’s requirement for a comprehensive review of the day’s major news stories from sources including all major national and local newspapers, national and local television, national radio, news wires, online news outlets, magazines, legal journals, and specialty press/trade journals... |
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FDIC Business Data Services (FBDS) II Engagement Outline
Dept. of Commerce
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FDIC FBDS II Virtual Industry Day PPTX - Dec. 8, 2021 |
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All Source II - Intelligence Applications (Intel Apps) Solicitation
Dept. of Defense
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Past Performance Questionnaire - Dec. 7, 2021 |
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RFI for DLA Document Services – Content Management (DLADS-CM)
NASA
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Questions Pt 3 - Dec. 9, 2021 |
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Transparent, Integrated, Autonomous Multi-Level Access and Transfer (TIAMAT)
Social Security Administration
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Daily U.S. Credit Card Transaction Data
Dept. of Commerce
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The Office of the Secretary intends to award a sole source contract for the Bureau of Economic Analysis to Fiserv, Inc. 255 Fiserv Drive Brookfield, WI 53045, to procure card transaction data that provide timely information about spending at establishments across the U.S. aggregated to different levels of geographic detail including national and at the state-level and including expenditure across various retail and service industries... |
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Notification of the SEC’s intent to award a sole source purchase order for CLEAR System-to-System subscription
Securities and Exchange Commission
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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 West Publishing Corporation for an Application Programming Interface (API) web solution that provides secure integration of data from CLEAR Investigation system into SEC internal applications... |
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Notice of Intent to Sole Source for SeaWeb Subscription Renewals
Dept. of Homeland Security
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The US Coast Guard, C5I Service Center,. Intends to solicit and award on a sole source basis under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b) to IHS Global Incorporated, 15 Inverness Way E., Englewood, CO 82112... |
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Cloud Price Index Service for Data
Dept. of Commerce
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The Office of the Secretary intends to award a sole source contract for the Bureau of Economic Analysis to S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC, 55 Water St Fl 40 New York, NY, 10041-0004, for data purchase, which provides a wide variety of statistics, facts, and current market data on many industries and topics that are all relevant for measuring cloud price index services... |
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Department of Defense awards C3.AI $500M Other Transaction Agreement |
The Department of Defense has signed an other transaction agreement with software and artificial intelligence company C3.AI that could be worth up to $500 million... |
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CALIBRE Systems, Inc. and LexisNexis® Risk Solutions Team up to Strengthen SecureAccess to Government Agencies through the Login.gov Single Sign-on Solution
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CALIBRE Systems, Inc. and LexisNexis® Risk Solutions, a leading provider of data, analytics and technology to help organizations predict and manage risk, today announced that the General Services Administration (GSA) has awarded the companies a contract to provide industry leading digital identity verification for Login.gov. The $34M award is the continuation of longstanding relationships with federal, state, and local agencies...
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C3 AI wins $500M OTA with DoD |
Redwood City, CA-based C3.ai, Inc. announced on December 9 that it has established a new five-year Production-Other Transaction Agreement with the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD)...
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Digital measures confirmed under UK procurement overhaul |
A new platform and data standard will be introduced as part of a government move to bring simplicity and transparency to contracting...
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VA Aims To Reduce Administrative Tasks With AI, Machine Learning |
A wide-reaching program looks for fresh machine learning technology to complete menial procedures and tasks, allowing VA clinicians and partners to focus on care... |
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ACLU Calls for Halt of Homeland Security’sUse Of Facial Recognition Technology |
The civil rights organization said that the biometrics technology can lead to discriminatory arrests based on race... |
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Machine Learning Models: The Legal Need for Editability (Part I) |
“If companies train their machine learning models without adequate rights to their underlying data, they risk having to jettison the entire model.” |
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Breaking down data silos in federal digital transformation |
As cybercriminals and nation-state actors continue their daily assaults on the U.S. government’s most sensitive data and networks, agency IT leaders are fast-tracking their approach to adopting a zero trust architecture – especially in a post-pandemic world filled with more remote workers and cloud environments... |
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How identity and access management enabled county's remote work |
Data protection is particularly important for the county, which must comply with multiple government regulations ranging from the Criminal Justice Information Services to the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act... |
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DoDIIS 2021: Intelligence Community to Revamp Common Approach to IT |
The Office of the Director of National Intelligence is poised to release a revised strategy for the intelligence community’s common IT platform... |
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Edge Impulse wants to bring machine learningat the edge to everyone, announces $34M Series B funding |
55.000 projects, 30.000 developers, $54M funding, and customers, including the likes of NASA, in a bit over 2 years. Edge Impulse is riding the wave of machine learning at the edge... |
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A Cartel of Influential Datasets Are DominatingMachine Learning Research, New Study Suggests |
A new paper from the University of California and Google Research has found that a small number of ‘benchmark’ machine learning datasets, largely from influential western institutions, and frequently from government organizations, are increasingly dominating the AI research sector...
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Accenture Invests in Operational Resilience and Supply Chain Cybersecurity Company Interos |
Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has made a strategic investment, through Accenture Ventures, in Interos, an operational resilience and supply chain risk management company that uses machine learning to monitor global business relationships and identify risks...
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Clearview AI is closer to getting a US patent for its facial recognition technology |
The company’s controversial technology fills its database with images it scrapes from social media... |
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- Quantifind Project with the Department of Defense and Defense Innovation Unit Serves as Case Study in New "Responsible AI Guidelines in Practice" Report
- BrightTower Advises Informa on its Acquisition of Leading B2B Content Syndication and Lead Management Platform NetLine Corporation
- Qualtrics to Open New East Coast Hub, Create 400 New Tech Jobs in Reston, Virginia
- Similarweb Adds Contacts to Sales Intelligence Platform
- UrbanFootprint Named to Inc.'s 2021 Best in Business List for Government Services
- ICE Expands Climate Change and Alternative Data Capabilities With Acquisitions of risQ and Level 11 Analytics
- Brace yourself for these five top data breach trends in 2022, Experian warns
- Data democratization a key focus forInformatica as it expands partnership with AWS
- Outward Media, Inc. Provides B2B Data to Federal Agencies for the First Time via Grist Mill Exchange
- FICO may be losing its lead
- Torch.AI Acquires Leading Data Warehouse and Analytics Firm DataTech, Expands U.S.Department of Defense Support
- IDEMIA NSS Adds Sandra Joyner Williams, Marg Schulenberg, Mike Ronayne to VP Executive Team
- Xometry Acquires Thomas, Accelerating the Manufacturing Industry’s Digital Transformation
- ZoomInfo Technologies Grows International Business
- Tamr Recognized for the First Time in the 2021 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Master Data Management
- Reveleer raises $65M for payer-focused data analytics platform, eyes acquisitions in interoperability, NLP tools
- Irish analytics company NewsWhip to double its engineering team
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MENA countries lag in Open Data Barometer and can catch up at the 2nd Data Driven Government Conference |
More than 300 senior government officials, Chief Information Officers, IT experts, ICT companies, public policy-makers, and suppliers will brainstorm at a two-day conference from Feb 15-16, 2022 |
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