Welcome to Carpe Datum’s Federal Data Prospector (Vol. 3, Issue 4) newsletter. We would like to wish all members of our rapidly growing community a warm and hearty Happy New Year! With the advent of 2021, Carpe Datum is excited to bring you the latest news, developments and contracting opportunities from the exciting intersection of Data & Data Analytics companies and the Federal Government! As always, please share our pub with a friend/colleague and spread the word about Carpe Datum - Click on this link to sign-up family & friends.
Note: Don’t be fooled by the inactive status on the opportunity posting listed below, we’re pretty sure NGA didn’t intend for the solicitation to expire ten months before it was posted. Apparently 2020 just refuses to die, but we expect a revision to the expiration and solicitation due dates will be forthcoming. In the meantime, this one looks interesting.
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Request for Information (RFI) – National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) - Geophysical Data Brokering Services – intends to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for the acquisition of brokering services as an avenue for NGA to purchase off the shelf geophysical data from external sources in areas of the world where NGA currently has gaps in data coverage. Desired data types include but not limited to: magnetic, seismic reflection data, soils data, hydrographic data, and well log data. These types of data are useful in the modeling process and should be considered for purchase in addition to gravity data. This effort is designed to streamline and expedite the data acquisition process.
In other data news, on December 30th, Nextgov published an interesting article entitled DOD Released Its First Enterprisewide Data Strategy in 2020. Here’s Why It Matter in which the author, Mila Jasper, highlights how the Defense Department’s first enterprise-wide data strategy, released in October, is succinct, coming in at less than 20 pages, but many defense observers say the strategy plants a clear and necessary stake in the ground declaring the importance of good data management at the Pentagon.
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Tara Murphy Dougherty, chief executive officer of Govini, a decision science firm supporting the Pentagon and the defense industry, told Nextgov in a recent conversation the foundation of the strategy is ‘quite sound.’ "I really would call upon the incoming Biden administration to adopt the data strategy and run with it," Dougherty said. "So much of what is in it is right and spot-on from a needs perspective, they're better served by defining the ‘how’ than going back and re-litigating any of the first principles, which all data professionals would tell you are quite sound,’ she added."
The Carpe Datum Team
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Country Risk/Country Industry Reports
U.S. International Development Finance Corporation
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DFC’s Information Center requires commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) web-based information system(s) providing access to two types of worldwide country intelligence... |
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Energy/Power Data
Dept. of Justice
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The Department of Justice (DOJ), Justice Management Division, Library Staff is seeking to purchase on behalf of the Antitrust Division a subscription to a commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) web-based platform that provides licensed content to energy/power information... |
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RPA Support and Maintenance RFI - USPS OIG
USPS
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The United States Postal Service Office of Inspector General (OIG) is performing market research to find Suppliers that are capable of providing support and maintenance of the UiPath software platform... |
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Notice of Intent to Issue Sole Source Award- Utilizing algorithms, machine learning processes and data visualization tools, the vendor provides analysis on private equity and venture capital
Dept. of the Treasury
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The Office of International Affairs Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) is looking to acquire a brand-new subscription to CB Insights Analytics Package, for 11 users... |
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Standard & Poor’s On-line Subscription
Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) intends to award a sole source contract to S&P Global Market Intelligence, under the authority of FAR 6.302-1 Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements... |
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Redacted J&A for Subscription Services
Dept. of Defense
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The action is for the purchase of a subscription renewal from GlobalView Software, Inc. (GlobalView) for a software system that allows DLA Energy the ability to view and extract market pricing data from various sources... |
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Data Subscription Services
Dept. of Defense
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Questions and Answers Final - December 29, 2020 |
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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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Questions and Answers - December 28, 2020 |
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Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Requirement for Aggregator Software 12 Month Subscription
Dept. of Defense
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Questions from Industry, Amd 0002 - December 28, 2020 |
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Patent Data
Dept. of Defense
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Was for Sources Sought Patent Data - December 28, 2020 |
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IRS Awards DRT’s Idea Lab™ Innovation Contract to Create Labor and Wage Data Analysis Tool for Government Procurement |
The IRS awards DRT Strategies its Labor/Wage Data Mashing contract as part of its Pilot IRS “Frictionless Acquisition” priority. DRT is creating an innovative tool that aggregates, analyzes, and accesses labor and wage data from multiple sources, to help all government acquisition professionals answer the question, “Am I getting a good deal?”... |
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An Open Letter To FinCEN: Newly Proposed Regulations On Cryptocurrency |
The rules propose applying the existing CTR reporting framework to any customer making a withdrawal or series of withdrawals over $10,000... |
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GAO Report Ponders Database to Track Chemical Weapons ‘Fingerprints’ |
The Government Accountability Office (GAO) has outlined technical and policy options for creating database resources that can be used to identify chemical “fingerprints” and help investigators track down the sources of chemical weapon agents used in attacks... |
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2020. The year that has felt like five years in one. This year has tested us all. While holiday celebrations look and feel different this year, I wanted to take some time to raise a glass of eggnog and thank the staff of the Department of Homeland Security... |
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Report finds holes in U.S. policies on foreign influence in research |
A new report by a congressional watchdog says U.S. agencies need to flesh out and clarify their policies for monitoring the foreign ties of the researchers they fund... |
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Artificial Intelligence Begins to Realize Its Potential |
Here's a look at some interesting projects, like one that helps programmers maintain and update COBOL.. |
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Effective Governance Requires Implementation of Artificial Intelligence |
The quick advancement of artificial intelligence can possibly revamp how the government provides an expansive range of core services to citizens in a significant manner...
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The 6 Types of Data Everybody Should Know to Avoid Confusion |
Everybody tosses the word “data,” but few actually know what it actually means and does. MountainTop Data CEO Sky Cassidy explains the 6 different kinds of data everyone should know something about in order to avoid confusion... |
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Big Data & Credit Score: What’s Changing |
The availability of large quantities of consumer data, also known as big data, has broad implications for the way we measure credit... |
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He was being groomed as SAS next CEO. Now he's leaving the company |
Oliver Schabenberger, the man who was previously named heir apparent to the CEO role at SAS, is leaving the company...
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FICO and Crystal Blockchain of Bitfury Group Announce Partnership |
The partnership will feature an integration between FICO’s anti-financial crime solutions and Bitfury Group’s Crystal analysis... |
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Navy Hosts Project Overmatch Industry Day, Communicates Importance of Government-Industry Collaboration |
Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) Commander Rear Adm. Doug Small engaged with industry partners at a classified Industry Day focused on Project Overmatch Dec. 15 at Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacific in San Diego... |
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HackerEarth Machine Learning Challenge: Resolving citizens’ grievances |
Machine Learning is an application of Artificial Intelligence (AI) that provides systems with the ability to automatically learn and improve from experiences without being explicitly programmed... |
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EMERALD Follow-on: "CLOVER" update (Set-Aside, ARC, Industry Day, Draft RFP status) |
The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency (NGA) will host an Unclassified Virtual Industry Day for the Clover Program Tuesday, January 19, 2021 at 0830 EDT. The Clover Industry Day will consist of a virtual presentation led by the Clover Program Manager, along with information presented by NGA officials... |
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