This contract will provide commercially available, HR oriented research services in support of the AHR strategic priorities.

Specifically, ARPA-H is soliciting innovative proposals for research and development (R&D) in data integration and usability technologies. Proposed R&D should investigate innovative software approaches that enable revolutionary advances in the collection and usability of biomedical datasets that originate from thousands of different research labs, clinical care centers, and other sources of data in order to accelerate technical innovation across the health ecosystem. 

The CHIPS Program Office (CPO) requires access to company financial information for public and private companies in order to conduct its analysis and review of grant/loan applicants to validate assumptions and viability of the proposed projects. CPO is seeking a vendor to provide access to corporate financial data and research (both public and private) to perform financial analysis and risk assessment of applicants and sub-tier factors. 

CPO is interested in subscribing to a service that can provide quantitative analysis on semiconductor manufacturers, especially front-end or fabrication activities. The service should include information on average wafer selling price, foundry capacity, company capital expenditures, industry inventory, and utilization rates. Specifically, CPO requires quarterly updated data on the average selling price of fabricated wafers broken out by feature size.

Original announcement republished to incorporate previous amendments.

Industry Day slides posted.

Changes to solicitation.

Offer due date extended to September 20, 2023.

The IQVIA data license subscription provides DLA Troop Support Medical Directorate with current national commercial medical/surgical supplies and pharmaceutical sales data.

82 CS requires data classification software to identify and properly secure sensitive content/data located on the base share drive.

This procurement requires the purchase of 3 co-related items (SEPPO CORE software tools, SEPPO Geospatial, and SEPPO training and software establishment support). Each of these components is needed to ensure proper instillation of the software and migration of the NESDIS SAR flood monitoring algorithms and production environment into NCCF.

The purpose of this requirement is to procure the latest Healthcare Cost and Utilization Project (HCUP) state database files including State Inpatient Databases (SID), State Ambulatory Surgery Databases (SASD), and State Emergency Department Databases (SEDD).

The purpose of this requirement is to purchase the American Medical Association (AMA) Year End 2022 Physician Master File. The AMA Physician Master File is unique, the only source of information on physicians that combines current information on locations and practices with information regarding their training and specialty. This master file is needed to estimate current health occupational supply at the state and national level and to track health workforce trends over time and ensure that HRSA is able to compare these trends from year to year.

This effort will allow CISA to obtain access to Definitive Healthcare data subscription services. Definitive Healthcare provide data-driven insights to commercial healthcare intelligence that combines data, analytics, and expertise from multiple datasets with advanced data science and artificial intelligence to create a holistic picture of the healthcare landscape. 

This contract was awarded for subscription to comprehensive fixed income credit ratings data including all credit ratings and credit watch updates from S&P, Moody’s and Fitch for the following asset classes: 1) corporates 2) municipals and 3) asset-backed. 

Army to treat OSINT as ‘intelligence discipline of first resort’ under new strategy

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Attorney General Bonta Announces $93 Million Settlement Regarding Google’s Location-Privacy Practices

California Attorney General Rob Bonta today announced a $93 million settlement with Google resolving allegations that its location-privacy practices violated California consumer protection laws. The settlement follows a multi-year investigation by the California Department of Justice that determined Google was deceiving users by collecting, storing, and using their location data for consumer profiling and advertising purposes without informed consent.

Treat AI as your ‘crazy drunk friend,’ not like ‘peanut butter’: CIA tech chief

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DHS Announces New Policies and Measures Promoting Responsible Use of Artificial Intelligence

The policies, developed by the DHS Artificial Intelligence Task Force (AITF), build on a commitment from the Biden-Harris Administration to manage the risk and harness the benefits of AI. The Department uses AI technologies to advance its missions, including combatting fentanyl trafficking, strengthening supply chain security, countering child sexual exploitation, and protecting critical infrastructure.

The Rise of Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, and the Next Generation of International Rules Governing Cross-Border Data Flows and Digital Trade

Cross-border data flows are integral to the modern economy, enabling communications, financial transactions, access to a vast array of services, efficient manufacturing, medical research, and so much more. Cross-border data flows are even more important now with the rapid growth of new artificial intelligence (AI) applications, which depend on massive amounts of data.

Amazon Accuses US Government of Sharing Confidential Information

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Social Media Threat Monitoring Improves National Security

National security, customs and border security, law enforcement, and other organizations can monitor publicly available information on social media to gain threat intelligence — spotting and mitigating criminal acts, and potentially stopping them before they start. The best social media threat monitoring platforms also include situational awareness capabilities to help governments and emergency services organizations improve disaster response.

CISA Releases Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program: Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) Reference Architecture

Today, CISA released the Continuous Diagnostics and Mitigation Program: Identity, Credential, and Access Management (ICAM) Reference Architecture to help federal civilian departments and agencies integrate their identity and access management (IDAM) capabilities into their ICAM architectures.

LinkedIn cofounder Reid Hoffman thinks pausing AI development is 'foolish' and 'anti-humanist'

Hoffman is one tech leader who has been "beating the positive drum," on AI for years and the venture capital firm he is part of, Greylock Partners, has invested in several AI companies. He was also an early investor in OpenAI and previously served on its board.

S&P Global Market Intelligence Launches Entity Insights, a Single-Source Solution with Data for 27 Million Global Entities

"The traditional process for collecting and analyzing entity due diligence data is time intensive and manual," said John Barneson, Head of Network and Regulatory Solutions, S&P Global Market Intelligence. "Entity Insights enables users to efficiently meet their entity due diligence obligations for clients, vendors and other third parties by streamlining data collection and analysis while minimizing risk via increased data transparency."

TransUnion TruIQ Data Enrichment First to Offer Financial Institutions with Unlimited Access to Pseudonymized Credit Data within Their Private Environments

TruIQ Data Enrichment includes a proprietary linking app to connect businesses’ first- and third-party data with TransUnion credit data. As a result, customers can execute highly targeted marketing campaigns or conduct cost-benefit analyses when entering a new segment – all without creating the risk of sensitive data leaving their private environments, relying on third-party data processors or manually linking and matching data.

Legal Battle Unfolds: OpenAI Accused of Unlawful Data Scraping in AI Training

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Changing Federal Policy for Supply Chains – What’s Next? Implications and Success Strategies

Amid shifting global alliances and continued geopolitical turmoil, policymakers are adamant the U.S must strengthen its defense supply chain resilience and adopt more effective procurement strategies to maintain national security and global competitiveness.

Industry Day for Fast Agile Lifecycle for Continuous Verification, Operations, and NextGen (FALCON)

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