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Welcome to Carpe Datum’s weekly newsletter, the Federal Data Prospector (Vol. 4, Issue 25) which happens to be the only publication of its kind dedicated exclusively to Data & Analytics companies that share our passion for serving the Public Sector. We hope you had a wonderful Memorial Day weekend! Despite the holiday, our friends in the Federal Government were quite busy this past week and it appears this issue’s theme is a familiar one – Open Source Intelligence. OSINT is topping the charts once again with a compelling opportunity at the Administrative Offices of the U.S. Courts as well as an article discussing the State Department’s efforts to stand up an open-source coordination office. We hope you enjoy and prosper!
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Request for Proposal (RFP) – Administrative Office of the United States Courts – Social Media Collection and Analysis Tool – The objective is to procure a firm fixed price, Commercial off-the-shelf (COTS), Software as a Service or Perpetual Licenses, user-friendly, on-demand, secure, Social Media Collection & Analysis Tool that allows for 140 users to monitor, archive, and preserve an unlimited amount of data from a wide variety of social media platforms and websites such as: FaceBook, Instagram, Twitter, Youtube, Vimeo, Linkedin, Tumblr, and TikTok. The tool shall be capable of archiving both publicly and privately available social media data for target accounts.
In other data news, on May 23rd, Federal News Network published an article entitled, State Department intelligence arm to set up open source coordination office. In it, Justin Doubleday describes how the State Department’s intelligence branch is setting up a new open source office to improve how it shares analysis with diplomats worldwide under a new strategic plan that puts a major emphasis on upgrading the bureau’s IT operations.
- “Brett Holmgren, assistant secretary of state for intelligence and research, says the Strategic Open Source Coordination Office will serve as a ‘central point of contact’ for policy, training and tradecraft around open source intelligence, or OSINT. The new unit will also test and procure open-source tools, help deliver them overseas, and manage contracts.”
The Carpe Datum Team
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PBGC Investment Risk Management System (IRMS)
Pension Benefit Guarantee Corporation
| CID requires a robust Investment Risk Management System (IRMS) with capabilities necessary to measure, manage, and monitor the risks of the Investment Program’s assets and liabilities, both Single-Employer and Multiemployer Programs. CID currently has a contract in place for an IRMS that expires in September 2022. | |
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Multi-Sensor Multi-Data Analysis
Dept. of Homeland Security
| Provide improvements over existing data analytics capabilities or creation of new data analytics capabilities for point, local, regional, national and/or worldwide targeting and interdiction of potential CWMD threats or indicators of potential CWMD threats by domestic and foreign partners. | |
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Sources Sought – Design/build a Data Access Portal
Dept. of Health and Human Services
| We are currently seeking subcontractors who can design, build and deploy a Data Access Portal that uses Cancer Data Aggregator (CDA) and other relevant data resources to search CRDC and provides users with both a visual and computable output that could be used to analyze data. | |
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Machine Learning Assessment Event (AE)
Dept. of Defense
| Machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI)-enabled systems can effectively reduce Warfighter burden by automating portions of their workflows to increase Warfighter accuracy and throughput. | |
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Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Business Information Reports and Analytics Service
Dept. of Veterans Affairs
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TRANSCOM Reference Data Management (TRDM)
Dept. of Defense
| Draft RFP Posted - May 26, 2022 | |
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Scalable Science Data Exploration
NASA
| QA Clarifications - May 26, 2022 | |
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Mortgage Data Service File
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau
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Birth Certificate Verification Services
Dept. of Homeland Security
| The Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Enrollment Services and Vetting Programs (ESVP) intends to negotiate a sole source contract with National Association of Public Health Information Statistics (NAPHSIS), as the only responsible source that can provide access to birth certificate verification and certification services... | |
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Silicon Expert
Dept. of Defense
| Silicon Expert Technologies, Inc. is the only source capable of fulfilling the Government's requirement of the Silicon Expert tool renewal. This renewal is a web-based subscription tool providing counterfeit risk information on electronic components and calculation based on manufacturer alerts and material shortages. | |
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ICEYE Announces Agreement with European Space Agency to Support Copernicus Emergency Services with Flood Insights | Leveraging the world's largest synthetic aperture radar constellation, ICEYE will provide ESA with active flood hazard data before, during and after large-scale flood events. | |
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Palantir USG Inc., Palo Alto, California, has been awarded a $53,899,333 firm-fixed-price modification | The contract modification provides for a Data-as-a-Service platform that supports three mission areas to automatically ingest data across the Department of the Air Force... | |
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Maxar wins 10-year NRO contract | EOCL’s expanded scope and value includes Foundation, Intelligence Area and Points collection plus the additional capabilities of shortwave infrared, non-Earth imaging, nighttime imaging and theater direct downlink. | |
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The PADSI program provides a complete range of technologies for data management, data processing, data analytics, and visualization on common user interfaces supporting U.S. Special Operations Command (USSOCOM). | |
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Advocates urge Amazon to drop controversial DHS surveillance program | Digital and human rights activists are demanding that Amazon Web Services drop out of a contract to host the Department of Homeland Security’s next-generation biometric data-hosting system. | |
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New leader chosen for Air Force’s information warfare command | President Biden has nominated Maj. Gen. Kevin Kennedy to be the next commander of the 16th Air Force, the service’s information warfare entity, the Pentagon announced Wednesday. | |
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NGA opens access to human geography population data | The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, in partnership with Oak Ridge National Laboratory, is offering its LandScan Global and LandScan High-Definition data sets free without restrictions to the public for the first time since their initial publication in 1999. | |
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FTC Fines Twitter For ‘Deceptive’ User Data Sharing | The Federal Trade Commission has cracked down on the social media company before, and now demands $150 million in penalty fees for sharing user information. | |
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How State and Local Agencies Can Transform Their Relationship With Data | As the public sector looks to integrate emerging technologies like cloud, artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, agencies will need to establish a solid foundation to become more digitally enabled and data-driven. | |
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Transforming Data With Platform as a Service | Before DFSS began its data reinvention, it faced challenges with data silos and legacy data management technologies that lacked analytical capabilities. “One of the biggest challenges for our department is the fact that our data is separated into various applications and locations,” said Kevin Givens, DFSS’ deputy commissioner of IT, contracts and programmatic monitoring. | |
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16 Senators Push FTC: What Are You Doing to Protect Location Data of Women Seeking Abortions? | A group of 16 senators has written to the Federal Trade Commission looking for answers on what the agency will do to protect data of women and their health choices in the wake of likely changes to the legality of abortion. | |
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How Informatica reinvented itself for the cloud | Informatica has a solid enterprise story, as the IDMC offers scalability, governance, security and integration – all important requirements for any enterprise-class cloud platform. The company’s partnerships are also enterprise-class... | |
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Can European Regulators Stop Clearview AI? | The US-based facial recognition company Clearview AI once told investors that “almost everyone in the world” could soon be identifiable via its biometric database. The company’s methods have been declared illegal in multiple jurisdictions—most recently in the UK. But do European regulators actually have any power to stop Clearview AI? | |
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MeasureOne Continues to Scale Consumer-Permissioned Data Platform To Reach New Data Domains With Expansion Into Insurance Data
| Over the last few months, MeasureOne has launched partnerships with BeSmartee, Einstein Higher Edu Solutions, GDSLink, and TurnKey Lender to streamline the loan underwriting process and expand access to credit for thousands of borrowers in the United States. | |
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Alteryx Empowers Public Sector to Accelerate Insights with Automated Analytics | Using repeatable drag-and-drop workflows, users can quickly profile, prepare, and blend data without having to write code or custom scripts. | |
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KDD 2022 Opens Registration for the Premier International Data Science and Analytics Conference – Aug. 14-18 in Washington, D.C.
| The annual KDD conference is the premier international, interdisciplinary data science gathering, bringing together researchers and practitioners from data science, machine learning, big data and artificial intelligence to fuel innovation. | |
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Python at Scale Summit, Presented by NumFOCUS Opens the Call for Proposals | The conference aims to showcase new and upcoming big data solutions for Python developers and enterprises in a hybrid format via talks, tutorials, hackathons, and interactive workshops. | |
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