VOLUME 3. ISSUE 29.

Welcome to Carpe Datum’s weekly newsletter, the Fed Data Prospector (Vol. 3, Issue 29). For those who are familiar with our approach each week to the featured elements within our weekly newsletter, you will know that, where possible, we try to be not only topical but also thematic in terms of the government’s featured contracting opportunity in addition to each week’s news item spotlight. Thus, this week’s theme is the active collaboration between government and industry to address counter-terrorism initiatives via innovation facilitated by data and analytics.   As usual, please help us spread the word about this publication by sharing the wealth with colleagues, co-workers, and companions - Click here to sign-up for the newsletter.   Request for Quote (RFQ) – Treasury/Internal Revenue Service (IRS) -- Terrorism Risk Insurance Program (TRIP) for Terrorism Risk Modeling –The Contractor shall develop a Terrorism Risk Insurance Model to be provided to the Federal Insurance Office (FIO) that incorporates commercially available geocoded property and employment data covering the United States (as defined for purposes of the Terrorism Risk Insurance Act). The model shall be capable of generating loss estimates (as described further below) derived from the geocoded property and employment data used within the model-based upon identified attack modes taking place at any specified location in the United States as identified through queries made by FIO.   In other data news, on June 22nd, AIR Worldwide released an interesting announcement entitled, Verisk’s AIR Updates Its Terrorism Model to More Comprehensively Model Damage from Conventional Bomb Blast Attacks.  In this release, Kevin Long describes how catastrophe modeling firm AIR Worldwide has updated its Terrorism Model for the United States to more comprehensively model the extent of damage from conventional bomb blast attacks.   “The threat of terrorism continues to rise and managing risk from terrorism has become an essential part of business,” continued Tao Lai, vice president, research, AIR Worldwide. “Updates to the AIR Terrorism Model for the United States include enhancements to the modeling of conventional bomb blast attacks. In particular, the updated model can produce a more realistic damage extent for various forms of blast attacks, including the Oklahoma City bombing which was estimated to have had the energy of approximately 4,000 lbs. of TNT and damaged 324 structures within a five-block radius.” The Carpe Datum Team

Notice of Special Interest (NOSI): Harnessing Big Data to Halt HIV NIH This NOSI seeks to promote multidisciplinary collaborations across epidemiology, bioinformatics, mathematical modeling, statistics, social and behavioral sciences, HIV prevention and care, and bioethics, among others...

IMPORT/EXPORT TRADE DATA SUBSCRIPTION Dept. of the Interior The U.S. Geological Survey National Minerals Information Center, located in Reston, Virginia, has a requirement for access to import and export data from a comprehensive online database that contains official merchandise trade statistics under the Harmonized System (HS) classification of goods for countries all over the world...

AI and Networks Advanced Naval Technology Exercise (AINet ANTX) - Prize Challenge Q&A Dept. of Defense The Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) will be hosting a question and answer (Q&A) session for two recently posted Networks and Artificial Intelligence Prize Challenges on https://challange.gov...

Automated Financial Institutions and Providers Data Feed Products and Services (eFeeds) Securities and Exchange Commission The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) seeks information and invites industry input concerning automated electronic systems for monitoring employee ethics compliance with respect to personal securities holdings and transactions...

On-Line Real Property Database Subscription Service - Dept. of Homeland Security Media Monitoring Service: worldwide contact, distribution, and analysis database system for reporters who cover science and technology in various media platforms, print, broadcast, digital and social media. - Dept. of Energy R408--FSC Data Analytics Support Services - Dept. of Veterans Affairs DHS First Responders Group Open Broad Agency Announcement - Call 0003 - Dept. of Homeland Security The development of a Consumption Measure for the Dept of Labor - Dept. of Labor IBEX Somalia and Somaliland Market Research Reports - DLA CIGIE Technology Committee Industry Day Series - CIO Technologies - CIGIE Healthy Aging in Neighborhoods of Diversity across the Life Span (HANDLS) Medicaid Data Linkage and Analyses - Dept. of Health and Human Services

Data Readiness for Artificial Intelligence Development (DRAID) Services; Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) for The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) Dept. of Defense Solicitation (Updated) - June 25, 2021

Project Convergence Industry Round Table – June 2021 Dept. of Defense PC Industry Day Flyer - June 23, 2021

1-Step Broad Agency Announcement for Mission Analytics Technology and Research for Innovative Exploitation (MATRIX) Dept. of Defense Amendement, Attachment - June 22, 2021

NSWC Crane AISUM Prize Challenge - Dept. of Defense B--2D Seismic Data of Northern Florida and Panhandle - Dept. of the Interior

ASPR's Real Time Event Detection Support Dept. of Health and Human Services The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), intends to issue a Sole Source, Firm Fixed Price award to Dataminr, Inc. for a subscription to a commercially available, real-time event detection and alerting tool that utilizes publicly available information (PAI)...

Intent to Sole Source -Thomson Reuters CLEAR Subscription Services for OIA Dept. of the Treasury The Office of Business Solutions Acquisition (OBSA); Treasury Operations Branch, intends to negotiate a sole-source acquisition in accordance with FAR 6.302-1 with West Publishing Corporation for subscription services to Thomson Reuters CLEAR with the approximate start date of September 25, 2021...

National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (LETS) NLETS Subscription renewals Dept. of Defense The U.S. Army Contracting Command – Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG) is requesting a Firm-Fixed-Price (FFP) Quotation for Commercial-Off-The-Shelf (COTS) Iberon NLETS subscription renewal which is considered brand name to Iberon...

Intent to Sole Source - Thomson Reuters Checkpoint Subscription Services Dept. of the Treasury The Office of Business Solutions Acquisition (OBSA); Treasury Operations Branch, intends to negotiate a Sole Source Firm-Fixed Price Purchase Order under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b), to Thomson Reuters (Tax & Accounting) Inc. for the purchase of CheckPoint subscription service...

Housing Sales Data Subscription - Dept. of Housing and Urban Development Clarivate Subscription - Dept. of Health and Human Services S&P Global Subscription - Dept. of the Treasury Notice of Intent: FDA-21-NOI-1243256 Brightfield Ai-Driven Consumer Data on CBD - Dept. of Health and Human Services Graphpad Prism Annual Subscription - Dept. of Health and Human Services

Clarifai partners with US Army on sensor data labeling CRADA New York, NY-based Clarifai, an AI lifecycle platform provider for managing unstructured image, video, audio and text data, announced on June 22 that it has entered into a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement or CRADA with the U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (CCDC), C5ISR Center, Night Vision and Electronic Sensors Directorate (NVESD)...

Spectral MD wins $1.1m contract with US Department of Defense Predictive analytics company Spectral MD has been awarded $1.1m to advance its artificial intelligence wound healing assessment technology for use in a "far-forward military environment" and improve portability....

Informatica : Named to Carahsoft ITES-SW2 Contract to Support U.S. Army Enterprise Infrastructure Goals Informatica, the enterprise cloud data management leader, today announced that it has been named a manufacturer on the Information Technology Enterprise Solutions - Software 2 (ITES-SW2) contract for the U.S. Army Computer Hardware Enterprise Software and Solutions (CHESS)...

DHS Insider Threat Program Expanding to Anyone Who Accesses Agency Info The Homeland Security Department will begin tracking all personnel—federal employees and contractors, with or without a security clearance—in the hunt for insider threats...

US Needs to Defend Its Artificial Intelligence Better, Says Pentagon No. 2 AI safety is often overlooked in the private sector, but Deputy Secretary Kathleen Hicks wants the Defense Department to lead a cultural change...

DoD to Launch New AI and Data Accelerator Initiative Under JADC2 Deputy Secretary of Defense Kathleen Hicks said today that the Pentagon will be rolling out a new AI and Data Accelerator Initiative (AIDA Initiative) within the next 90 days as part of the Defense Department’s (DoD) Joint All Domain Command and Control (JADC2) strategy...

Ram Iyer: FDA Internally Pursues Data Modernization DOD to embed data experts within military units

Machine Learning, from Single Core to Whole Cluster The demand for production-quality software for mining insights from datasets across scales has exploded in the last several years...

Event round-up: CCS Big Data & Analytics Commercial Agreement Briefing On Tuesday 15 June, techUK was delighted to host Crown Commercial Service (CCS) & HMRC for a market briefing on a new Big Data & Analytics framework* for the UK Public Sector which the two Departments have been collaborating on...

Sensor data helps ports ensure efficient navigation Sensors affixed to commercial tugboats and other vessels traveling the Mississippi River will give port operators access to real-time data on water depth, currents and visibility – factors impacting sediment buildups that can impede river navigation...

Acryl Data, commercializing LinkedIn’s metadata tool DataHub, emerges from stealth with $9M from 8VC,LinkedIn and Insight In 2019, LinkedIn’s engineering team announced DataHub, a metadata tool it had built to help it organise, search and discover insights from its vast data trove...

Meltwater buys business information company Owler Media monitoring and social analytics software-as-a-service company Meltwater has agreed to acquire business information platform Owler in a deal worth $24.5m...

TransUnion wins in Supreme Court A 5-4 decision backed the Chicago-based company in its fight against a $40 million award to thousands of people the credit-reporting firm categorized as potential terrorists...

GovExec Acquires Two Business Intelligence Tools, Military Periscope and Government Contracting Institute, to Help Defense & Federal Government Contractors Identify, Track, and Pursue Business Opportunities Government Contracting Institute Marks the Company’s First Opportunity Data Tracking Tool...

riskmethods Launches riskmethods Supply Risk Network to Increase Sub-Tier Visibility and Resilience of Supply Networks NetApp Acquires Data Mechanics to Accelerate Spot Roadmap and Optimize Data Analytics and Machine Learning Workloads in the Cloud SafeGraph Announces Official Partnership with Tyler Technologies LexisNexis Risk Solutions rolls out new financial crime compliance solution G2 Raises $157 Million in Series D Financing to Continue Accelerating Growth of the World's Most Trusted Software Marketplace Maxar products to support Australia’s national security Israeli-based company collaborates in dash cam safety initiative DIY approach to social media candidate screening ‘risky’ 5 Q’s for Blake Hall, Founder and CEO of ID.me ZoomInfo Unveils Industry’s First Business Contact Preference Registry Openness and security in the big data era Cross River Bank acquires data analytics firm PeerIQ LookingGlass Cyber Announces Acquisition of AlphaWave Palantir Technologies : DataRobot Partner to Bring Speed and Agility to Demand Forecasting Models Dun & Bradstreet and Zeta Join Forces to Launch the Industry’s First Combined Consumer and Business Data Cloud for “Business-to-Person” Marketing FinTech: ClearScore, UK, Scores $200M Investment From Invus Opportunities

TransUnion Public Sector VP Jeffrey Huth To Moderate Expert Panel at Potomac Officers Club’s Trusted Workforce Forum on June 30th The Forum will host an expert panel moderated by Jeffrey Huth of TransUnion, featuring Heather Green of DSCA, Beth McGrath of Deloitte, David Buckley of KPMG Federal Services, Richard McComb of the DHS, Cindi Stuebner and Pegasystems and Mark Frownfelter of NCSC...

Transform 2021 - July 12-16 Transform 2021 is the AI event of the year for enterprise execs looking to maintain their competitive edge in an AI and data driven world...

ACT-IAC's Homeland Security & Law Enforcement Forum 2021 - June 30 The ACT-IAC Homeland Security and Law Enforcement Forum bring together the security and law enforcement leaders from Government and industry to address the current threats, trends, and lessons learned not only during the continued pandemic but the post era of the pandemic...

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