VOLUME 3. ISSUE 3.

Welcome to Carpe Datum’s Federal Data Prospector (Vol. 3, Issue 3) newsletter. With the freshly inked fiscal year 2021 appropriations bill and pandemic relief legislation, a federal government shutdown has been narrowly averted and your friends at Carpe Datum are back at it again – searching high and low to find those new business opportunities for Data & Data Analytics companies. 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.    Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) – Department of Defense, Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) - Draft Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) Data Readiness Artificial Intelligence Development (DRAID) Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) -- The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) was established in 2018 to be the focal point of the DoD Artificial Intelligence (AI) Strategy to accelerate scaling AI and its impact across the Department. Working closely with the Services, Combatant Commands, and other Components, JAIC identifies appropriate use cases for AI across DoD, rapidly pilots solutions, and scales impact across our enterprise. The contractor shall accomplish all tasks needed to prepare or create data sets that are ready for use in Artificial Intelligence applications. Examples of such tasks include but are not exclusive to Extract Transform Load (ETL) and Data Engineering development, Database Design and Development, Data Science Development, Data Analysis, Project and Outreach Program Management.    In other data news, on December 24th, Nextgov published an interesting article entitled Thousands of Ocean Fishing Boats Could Be Using Forced Labor—We Used AI and Satellite Data to Find Them in which the author, Gavin McDonald, highlights how forced labor is a massive, global issue and a well-documented problem in open ocean fishing, but the scale has been very hard to track historically.   “By combining our team’s data science expertise with satellite monitoring, input from human rights practitioners and machine learning algorithms, we developed a way to predict if a fishing vessel was at high risk of using forced labor. Our study shows that up to 100,000 individuals may have been victims of forced labor between 2012 and 2018 on these ships." The Carpe Datum Team

Just-In-Time Multi-Mission Warfighter Needs Statement Dept. of Defense The Department of Defense’s Prototypes and Experiments office will conduct a Solutions Meeting on behalf of the Air Force Warfighter Integration Center (AFWIC) and the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL) in Late Spring 2021, which will be conducted virtually...

Electronic Data Management Dept. of Defense This Request for Quote (RFQ), W91CRB-21-Q-5008, is for the procurement of Media Monitoring News Aggregator Software, 12 month subscription. This requirement is a 100% Total Small Business Set-Aside...

NATIONAL SAMPLE SURVEY REGISTERED NURSE (NSSRN) DATA FILE Dept. of Commerc The United States Census Bureau is currently in the acquisition planning stage for the eventual award of a data file contract in support of collecting a universe of records...

9999--Reverse Industry Day Suicide Prevention Grand Challenge Summit Dept. of Veterans Affairs The purpose of this special notice is to announce a Save the Date the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), the Office of Acquisition, Logistics, and Construction (OALC) is sponsoring a Virtual Reverse Industry Day Suicide Prevention Grand Challenge Summit via virtual platform during the month of February 2021...

Search And Rescue Optimal Planning System (SAROPS) ArcGIS licenses and Environmental Data Server Subscriptions in support of multiple Foreign Military Sales Cases. Dept. of Homeland Security See attached Combined Synopsis/Solicitation and attachments for all details regarding this requirement...

Foreign Military Sales (FMS) Requirement for Aggregator Software 12 Month Subscription Dept. of Defense Questions from Industry - December 23, 2020

OFFICIAL RFP -Information Technology and Database Applications Support Services (ITDASS) Dept. of Commerce Section J Attachments - December 22, 2020

Research, Accountability and Evaluations Division Tech Data Support Dept. of Defense PWS RAE Tech Data Support - December 18, 2020

Army Exercises $114M Option to Extend Palantir’s Work on ‘Vantage’ Data Analytics Program The U.S. Army has awarded Palantir Technologies (NYSE: PLTR) a potential $113.8M contract option to continue work on a program that seeks to facilitate the decision-making process through a data analytics platform...

Data integration – driving improvements in patient care NHS England and NHS Improvement, working with NHSX, therefore set out to establish a single secure location to gather and analyse COVID-19 data to provide a single version of the truth about the rapidly evolving situation...

CBP Should Halt Expansion of the Biometric Entry-Exit Program, Many Commenters Write Advocacy groups and the City of Portland wrote the Homeland Security Department urging a full stop on expanding the use of facial recognition technologies...

China Used Stolen Data to Expose CIA Operatives in Africa and Europe The discovery of U.S. spy networks in China fueled a decadelong global war over data between Beijing and Washington...

Pentagon Targets Emerging Smart Technologies to Pilot in 2021 Companies are invited to apply to present relevant products during a solutions meeting next spring...

DHS Warns US Companies of Data Security Risks Posed by Firms With Ties to Chinese Gov’t; Chad Wolf Quoted The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has released an advisory warning U.S. businesses of security risks associated with using data servicesand equipment from companies with ties to the Chinese government...

Scot Currie: NGA Explores Commercial RF Data Integration With Agency’s Analytics Platforms S.P. Kothari to Conclude Tenure As SEC Chief Economist and Division of Economic and Risk Analysis Director Customs and Border Protection Announces New Strategic Plan

Intersection of Big Data Analytics, COVID-19 Top Focus of 2020 The top stories on HealthITAnalytics.com in 2020 focused on the industry’s use of big data analytics tools to understand, track, and reduce the spread of COVID-19...

Looking Beyond the Federal Data Strategy We may be entering a Golden Age of data sharing...

New Orleans to Reform Police Use of Facial Recognition Tech The city has banned police from using facial recognition software and several other types of surveillance technology, requiring officers to issue summonses for a wide range of minor offenses rather than make arrests...

A State Becomes the First to Suspend Facial RecognitionTechnology in Schools New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo said there are “serious and legitimate privacy concerns” with the technology—but only prohibited its use until 2022...

US Tech Firms Must Stop Helping China’s Defense-Linked Organizations ‘Explosion’ of health data fuels pharma advances: Linguamatics In 2020, a Reckoning for Law Enforcement and Tech Ethics

Facebook cuts off data brokers Facebook announced Wednesday it is shuttering an advertising program that used data from third-party brokers to precisely target ads to users of the social network — a change that comes as Facebook wrestles with criticisms that it has been cavalier about how it manages data on its some 2 billion users...

Neustar Launches the Fabrick ID™ to Future Proof Media Buying and Selling in a Post-Cookie World Neustar Fabrick™ powers next generation digital marketing and measurement with a privacy-centric, unified ID solution for publishers and advertisers...

Sramana Mitra: Analysis Of ZoomInfo’s Everstring Acquisition Go-To-Market intelligence provider ZoomInfo (Nasdaq: ZI) had listed earlier this year. Despite the current global conditions, the organization has been investing in acquisitions of other smaller companies to add AI and Machine Learning capabilities to its portfolio...

Cognizant Acquires Inawisdom, an Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning Services Expert Cognizant (Nasdaq: CTSH) today announced it has acquired Inawisdom, a UK-based, privately-held consultancy specializing in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and data analytics to help businesses make better, faster decisions that improve business outcomes...

Accenture Report Analyzes CFOs’ Need for Real Time Data Global Dun & Bradstreet Database Grows to 400 Million Companies Worldwide Moody’s elects Lloyd W. Howell, Jr. to its Board of Directors Bloomberg acquires Second Measure to unlock transaction data insights He was being groomed as Goodnight's successor. Now Schabenberger is leaving SAS Clear Channel and Bombora in B2B OOH Targeting Deal Comscore and MediaMath partner on ad targeting ProModel Corporation Government Services Division Acquired by Leading Advanced Analytics Solutions Provider IBM and Salesforce Join Forces to Help Organizations and Individuals Verify Vaccine and Health Status Equifax : Announces SVP of Product, Data & Analytics for Consumer Busin

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