VOLUME 3. ISSUE 6.

Welcome to Carpe Datum’s Federal Data Prospector (Vol. 3, Issue 6) newsletter. No matter where you fall on the political spectrum, the official start of a new Administration is always exciting with the introduction of a new agenda and a new set of priorities. Rest assured that Carpe Datum is working hard on your behalf to follow these developments closely, especially those that have a direct impact on our areas of focus – the data and data analytics industries. Stay tuned!   As always, please share our pub with a friend/colleague and spread the word about Carpe Datum - Click on this link to sign-up your co-workers.    Request for Information (RFI) – General Services Administration (GSA) - TTS Centers of Excellence (CoE) AI and ML Vendor Market Research – The General Services Administration has issued a request for information to understand vendor capabilities around artificial intelligence and machine learning products or services with potential government applications. The AI/ML marketplace survey contains questions that could help the agency learn more about technology offerings, including areas the product seeks to address, user training requirements and government compliance.   In other data news, on January 13th, Homeland Security Today published an interesting article entitled DOD nudges innovative startups toward ‘trusted capital’ with new digital marketplace in which the author, Jackson Barnett, describes how the Department of Defense wants to give defense-curious startups a safe space to pursue capital without having to look into funding from foreign investors that might have adversarial ties.   “The way it works is that both growing companies (“capability providers”) and investors (“capital providers”) apply to join the marketplace and be screened by DOD. If accepted, they are listed in the digital marketplace as trusted receivers and sources of funds and have the ability to connect with each other. So far 128 companies have “logged into the system” along with 30 capital providers, Katie Arrington, DOD’s chief information security officer for acquisition and sustainment, said during the briefing.” The Carpe Datum Team

242 Program Feasibility Studies Database Web-Based Subscription Services Dept. of Housing and Urban Development HUD requires an web-based tool designed specifically to house data information from Medicaid and Medicare Services (CMS). The data must be retrievable and remain current. HUD staff needs to be able to retrieve data from other sources recommended by HUD staff...

Terrorism Risk Modeling Dept. of the Treasury The Federal Insurance Office (FIO) in the U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) is seeking feedback from the vendor community on the draft Performance Work Statement (PWS) along with additional information to assist in formulating their requirement for Terrorism Risk Modeling...

USAF Weather Systems Program Office Industry Day (AFLCMC) Dept. of Defense The purpose of this Industry Day is to present a systems roadmap for USAF weather capabilities and program acquisition opportunities to interested industry, academia, and government research organizations, as part of general market research and awareness outreach...

Polaris GWAC Draft Request for Proposals GSA The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is seeking feedback from the small businesses information technology (IT) community and other interested stakeholders about Polaris, a new Governmentwide Acquisition Contract (GWAC)...

Reversible Quantum Machine Learning and Simulation (RQMLS) AIE Opportunity - Dept. of Defense Advanced Technologies to Enhance Warfighter Performance - Dept. of Defense Software Licensing Renewal Agreements, Operations, Maintenance, and Sustainment Support for the Joint Analytic Real-time Virtual Information Sharing System - Dept. of Defense AETC LMS AoA RFI - Dept. of Defense

Moody's Subscription Services Dept. of the Treasury The purpose of this sole source justification is to obtain approval to award a firm-fixed price (FFP) contract with Moody's Analytics Inc. for the purchase of the brand name items described in section 3.a below...

Data Subscription for Proprietary Airline Historical Schedule Files Dept. of Transportation The Government intends to award a purchase order on a sole source basis to OAG Aviation Worldwide LLC...

Common Enterprise Loan Origination and Servicing (CELOS) Platform Dept. of Agriculture Vendor Question and Answers - January 15, 2021

HQ USSOCOM Architecture Solution Dept. of Defense Sources Sought Updated - January 13, 2021

Energy/Power Data Dept. of Justice Questions - January 8, 2021

Broad Agency Announcement for Remote Monitoring of the Humanitarian Supply Chain - USAID RFI - Cellular Network Measurement and Analytic Solutions - Federal Communication Commission

SAS Gets FDA Cloud-Based Analytics Tech Contract; Jim Goodnight Quoted SAS has secured a potential $49.9M blanket purchase agreement to provide the Food and Drug Administration access to the company's cloud-based artificial intelligence, analytic and data management platform...

Informatica deal with French health research agency highlights role of data in pandemic fight Informatica announced that it has struck a deal with France’s major health research agency to help organize and manage its data. This partnership is emblematic of how critical data has become in the fight against COVID-19 and in health care more broadly...

1Spatial announces multi-year contract with California’s Office of Emergency Services 1Spatial, a global leader in Location Master Data Management (LMDM) software and solutions, has announced that it has signed a multi-year contract with the State of California’s Office of Emergency Services (CalOES) in the USA, for 1Spatial’s 1Integrate and 1Data Gateway SaaS offering. The contract has a total value of approximately US$0.6m over two years...

Raytheon, Palantir Secure Tech Maturation OTAs Under Army’s Tactical Ground System Modernization Program USPS biometrics program leans on its biggest asset: A post office in every neighborhood

USAID seeks remote sensing, analytics platform to track location, condition of aid The U.S. Agency for International Development is looking for a way to keep tabs on humanitarian aid as it travels from source to destination, often encountering including lengthy transit times, customs delays, poor transport infrastructure and harsh weather...

GSA introduces supply chain security process under Polaris contract The General Service Administration is working on a tool to better gauge risks to the supply chain, and it could require on-site assessments for vendors...

FDA Releases Action Plan for AI, Machine Learning Medical Software To enhance its oversight of AI and machine learning medical software, the FDA plans to improve algorithm development and foster a patient-centered approach...

As the SEC Launches Crypto Office, Blockchain Security Brings Out Its Big Guns With governments and institutions diving into the budding digital assets sphere, security companies are expanding their palettes from individual to custodial protection...

SBA Relaunches COVID Loan Program As Watchdog Warns About Possible Fraud  To get more use out of data, DOD needs to cut some old sources, Air Force CIO says National AI Initiative Office launched by White House Intelligence community’s three A’s of digital transformation: Augmentation, AI and automation

Machine Learning is Equipping Us for the Unknown In the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, the Department of Defense (DoD) offers a glimmer of hope: the ability to warn of an infection up to 48 hours before overt symptoms appear...

Data Science for Social Good Programme helps Ofsted and World Bank Data Science for Social Good (DSSGxUK) is a summer programme that has been hosted by the University of Warwick and The Alan Turing Institute for the last two years, and will this summer, 2021, be delivered by University of Warwick in collaboration with Ludwig Maximillian University (Munich) under the DSSGx UK chapter of the DSSG Foundation...

3 Ways Cloud Improves AI The pandemic has put governments around the world to the test. To cope with increased demands, services have needed to be bigger, faster and stronger — bigger in availability, faster in handling requests, and stronger in the face of cyberattacks and network strain...

The public sector’s path to modern customer identity and access management The COVID-19 pandemic has created both motivation and opportunity for federal agencies to interact with citizens in new ways. The growing demand for digital experiences means that identity and access management has become critical to the government’s success in delivering services...

Comscore and IHS Markit, PlaceIQ, and TransUnionLaunch First Cookie-Free Audience Targeting Solution at Scale With third-party cookie deprecation fast approaching, advertisers need bold new solutions to ensure their campaigns continue to reach the right audiences without interruption...

5 Healthcare applications of Hadoop and Big data There is a lot of buzz around big data making the world a better place and the best example to understand this is analysing the uses of big data in healthcare industry...

Neustar Announces Additions to Executive Leadership Team Neustar Inc., a global information services and technology company and leader in identity resolution, today announced five new appointments to its executive leadership team...

VIDEO: Equifax CEO on how the company will fight fraud Shares of Equifax are up after it announced the company will pay $640 million to acquire Kount, a company that uses artificial intelligence to drive its fraud prevention and digital identity services...

5 primary threats mentioned in Experian’s Future of Fraud Forecast ZoomInfo Reviews: Competitors, Pricing, and Alternatives for 2021 Babel Street® Acquires Cutting Edge Dark Web Indexing Technology Cognizant to Acquire Servian, a Leading Australian Data and Analytics Consulting Firm Snowplow Analytics raises $10 million in Series A2 funding Navteq to serve location-based ads in Nextar GPS system Premise Data Raises $85m for Global Growth Dun & Bradstreet Completes Acquisition of Bisnode, a Leading European Data & Analytics Business Sprinklr Achieves FedRAMP Ready Status IHS Markit Buys Cappitech Smartronix Announces the Acquisition of Datastrong

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