Welcome to Carpe Datum’s weekly newsletter, the Federal Data Prospector, the only publication of its kind dedicated exclusively to Data & Analytics companies that share our passion for serving the Public Sector. As most readers know, we look for trends week-to-week in the data we curate for this publication. This week's theme is the U.S. Federal Government's growing interest in innovative data sources and the technology required to exploit them. NGA's "Collection Matching Data Fabric" solicitation seeks technology and expertise in support of the agency's rapidly growing GEOINT data supply chain.
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The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) - Collection Matching Data Fabric (formerly Relationship Storehouse) RFI - The new data fabric construct enables substantial workflow efficiencies by quickly aligning registered GEOINT suppliers against collection requests. It will incorporate Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML) within the matching algorithms and within all the telemetry logic. The incorporation of deep learning analytics into the data fabric structure will provide analysts with more efficient supplier allocation decisions, resulting in higher probability of meeting their analytical intent.
In other data news, on June 13th, Electronic Frontier Foundation published an article entitled How the Federal Government Buys Our Cell Phone Location Data. In this story, Bennett Cyphers explores the federal government's growing use of location data, describing how data brokers have formed a vast, secretive partnership with military, intelligence, and law enforcement agencies to surveil the movements of millions of people.
- "With access to location data from commercial data brokers, federal agencies can query data about the movements of millions or billions of identifiable people at once. They are not limited to data about a single area or slice of time... agencies can make extraordinarily broad queries that span entire states or countries, and filter the resulting data however they see fit."
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Application for Data Management and Informatics Requirements (ADMIR)
Dept. of Transportation
| The main objective of the development of ADMIR is to allow multiple disciplines within the DOT to share data to make the transportation system safer, more equitable, more efficient, and more sustainable. | |
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Scanner Data License Agreement
Dept. of Defense
| The Defense Commissary Agency (DeCA) intends to sell certain Commercially Valuable Information as defined in 10 USC §2485(h), including raw product movement data, hereinafter referred to as “Scanner Data,” generated by the front-end cash register systems used in the DeCA commissaries operated worldwide. | |
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SEC Sources Sought Notice for Municipal Bond Quote Data
Securities and Exchange Commission
| The Security and Exchange Commission is conducting market research for access to municipal bond quote data (actionable quotes at the time of the execution of municipal bond trades), as well as a means to identify municipal securities of similar characteristics (to those municipal bonds that were executed), to evaluate compliance with Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board (MSRB) Rule G-18. | |
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Pricing & Purchasing Economic Forecasting Online Subscription
Dept. of Defense
| The Defense Contract Management Agency (DCMA), Fort Lee, VA, provides cost and pricing assessments in order to support the Department of Defense (DoD) in the evaluation of proposed price rates, wage escalations, and economic price adjustment in contracts between private sector companies and the Government. | |
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Law Enforcement Investigative Services
Dept. of Homeland Security
| Extension of response date. | |
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TRANSCOM Reference Data Management (TRDM)
Dept. of Defense
| Extended response date to June 28, 2022. | |
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Request for Proposal for Research Topic Titled “Mulit-Sensor Multi-Data Analysis”
Dept. of Homeland Security
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SEC Sources Sought Notice for ESG Metrics Data Subscription
Securities and Exchange Commission
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Monitor and Analyze the Status of Infant Formula Supply Chain Impacts and Respond to White House Requests on the Outbreak
Dept. of Health and Human Services
| To manage risks most effectively to the U.S. food supply chain during this infant formula shortage crisis, a data subscription for Retail Measurement (Byzzer) and On-Shelf Availability is critical. | |
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Debtwire US Restructuring Data
Dept. of the Treasury
| The Office of Financial Research (OFR), on behalf of the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), is pursuing subscription data access to US corporate financial restructuring data and relevant analytic data covering US distressed and bankruptcy markets with over $100M in funded debt, updated at least monthly. | |
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Voyager Search Subscription Software Renewal
Dept. of Defense
| In order to respond to this Request for Quote (RFQ), you must be a manufacturer or authorized reseller of Voyager Search. | |
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Notice of Intent to Sole Source - NextFlow Towers
Dept. of Health and Human Services
| The Nextflow Tower Enterprise Edition provides a way to orchestrate and monitor bioinformatics and analytics pipelines, and enables access control, monitoring, and data sharing. | |
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Peraton Subsidiary Wins $563M DoD Cyber Crime Center (DC3) Task Order
Dept. of Defense
| Perspecta Enterprise Services will support essential DC3 missions by delivering digital forensics, multimedia forensics, technical solutions development, cyber analytics, and vulnerability sharing support for DoD and National requirements in law enforcement, counterintelligence, counterterrorism, cybersecurity, and critical infrastructure protection. | |
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DOL OCIO awards $6M OUIM Digital Support Services contract
Dept. of Labor
| Work is to provide Digital Support Services for the Modernization and Reformation of Unemployment Insurance in support of the DOL’s Office of Unemployment Insurance Modernization. | |
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Can a new data strategy can help the Department of Labor shape a more inclusive economy? | There are already some efforts at the department to use data to understand how programs are working, and for what people, and allocate resources to the most vulnerable using that information. A new pilot using state-level data on unemployment, for example, is looking at disparities among what applicants get the benefit. | |
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NGA Transfers HIFLD Program to DHS | HIFLD is a compilation of more than 455 data layers that cover national critical infrastructure for the U.S. and U.S territories. The data layers support preparedness and readiness, response and recovery decision making at the state, local and national levels, and event/incident response mapping to include recent efforts for the California wildfires, and Hurricanes Harvey, Irma and Maria. | |
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IRS Launched Tax Credit Website Without Authority to Operate, Watchdog Reports | A cloud security threat analysis report required by IRS policies was conducted days before the new identity system and child tax credit portal went live, but a "communication issue" meant that the report and ATO letter didn't get to the authorizing official in a "timely" way. | |
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CIA's Marie Falkowski: “Data Innovation is a National Emergency” | The urgency behind Falkowski’s remark stems from an intensifying global race for AI, data and technology dominance. Outlining the threat landscape, Falkowski said China and Russia pose a significant challenge to the U.S. in regards to AI and data due to their lack of “ethical guardrails” in these areas and their disregard for “laws or civil liberties.” | |
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Senator Warren Introduces Bill to Ban the Sale of Location and Health Data | On June 15, 2022, Senator Elizabeth Warren introduced a bill, cosponsored by a host of other Democratic and independent Senators, the “Health and Location Data Protection Act of 2022,” which, subject to a few exceptions, would, among other things, prohibit the selling, sharing or transferring location data and health data. | |
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Pandemic Response Watchdogs Urge Agencies to Focus on ID Theft | The federal government needs to take action to address identity fraud as it continues to grapple with criminals' use of stolen information and synthetic identities to target the over $5 trillion in pandemic relief efforts, inspectors general told lawmakers during a Tuesday hearing. | |
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UK's New Digital Strategy Promises Change – Will it Deliver? | The strategy outlines six core missions with the ultimate goal of delivering better and simpler citizen experiences, more value to the taxpayer, and greater public sector efficiency and security. | |
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Congressional Hearings Focus on AI, Machine Learning Challenges in Cybersecurity | The hearing chair, Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV), articulated the importance of AI and machine learning to the armed forces of the United States. Additionally, the committee highlighted the “shortfall of technically trained cybersecurity personnel across the country in government and industry alike.” | |
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Dcode Capital Invests in Strengthening Urban Resilience and Data Usage in Government | Dcode Capital, the affiliated investment arm of Washington D.C.-based federally-focused accelerator Dcode, announced it has invested in two high-growth, commercially successful technology companies with the potential to transform the U.S. government: UrbanFootprint, the world’s first Urban Intelligence platform, and Tamr, the leading cloud-native data mastering solution. | |
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This Oracle Data Provider Platform has Surpassed 4 Million Nodes Since Inception | Can a fully-functional oracle network ecosystem that anonymously collects and validates geospatial (location-specific) data exist? One blockchain firm seems to have gotten the gist of the idea. | |
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LeadsOnline Acquires Hawk Analytics to Expand Capabilities In Digital Evidence Mapping and Analysis | As the company’s flagship product, CellHawk is currently used by local, state and federal law enforcement agencies throughout the United States to extract rapid answers and compelling visual evidence from call detail records and location-based data. | |
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Palantir, the all-seeing US tech company, could soon have the data of millions of NHS patients. | The Financial Times recently reported that Palantir is “gearing up” to become the underlying data operating system for the NHS. In recent months it has poached two top executives from the NHS, including the former head of artificial intelligence, and it is angling to get a five-year, £360m contract to manage the personal health data of millions of patients. | |
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DHS/SVIP Topic Call: Software Supply Chain Visibility Tools Industry Day Webinar | On July 14, 2022, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. PT, the Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) in partnership with Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), will host a virtual Industry Day to discuss the newly released Software Supply Chain Visibility Tools topic call. | |
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The Air Force Disruptive Futures Division (EBZ) is shaping the future of the weapons enterprise NOW. Our topics of interest include Autonomous Weapons, Artificial Intelligence and Next Generation Weapons Systems. | |
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