The scope of this effort is to develop and establish a threat intelligence platform and data feeds for use.  The TIES end state must have inherent flexibility to support a wide range of potential user bases from a contractor that optimizes execution via teaming arrangements or other streamlined approaches. 

Implementation of this service will continue the PID’s outstanding record of successful use of satellite AIS data in combating IUU fishing and other non-compliant activity in our region. Countering foreign IUU fishing is one of our highest mission priorities.

The BIG-ST BAA will seek innovative concepts to address hard GEOINT problems that align to one or more of the following technical domains: (1) Foundational GEOINT, (2) Advanced Phenomenologies, and (3) Analytic Technologies.

The purpose of this notice is to obtain information regarding the availability and capability of qualified Women Owned Small Businesses (WOSB) to provide a software suite to address and improve Federal Procurement Data System Next Generation (FPDS-NG) reporting data quality, automate contractor responsibility assessment reports, provide data, automations, and reporting capability for Federal Category Management initiatives, and provide access to procurement metric reports relevant to the top priorities in federal procurement.

Response to questions.

Changes to solicitation and extended response date.

Changes to solicitation and extended response date.

The subscription will enable NGA to access commercial and governmental GEOINT including, but not limited to, various missions and products of Sentinel, Modis, Aster, Landsat, and VIIRS, as well as a population density raster, CHIRPS, and ArcticDEM. The subscription also includes optical, radar, IR, hyper-spectral imagery and mineral identification capability based on spectral science. 

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention intends to award a sole source firm fixed price purchase order modification to CareFusion Solutions, LLC. This modification will add a CLIN to the original purchase order for additional data years through 2023. 

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Immigration and Customs (ICE), Office of Acquisition Management (OAQ) Irving, TX 75063, intends to solicit from a single source under the authority of FAR 13.501(a) to Pathfinder Labs of Auckland, New Zealand for Investigative Scenario Platform.

In order to facilitate reporting, measure impact, and raise the visibility of USDA research, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Agricultural Research Service (ARS), National Agricultural Library (NAL) requires an integrated solution to capture and curate research activities (such as funding and project information) and output (including publications and datasets) and provide tools to reuse these data for public display and/or reporting in systems like Tableau.

The Department of Health and Human Services will purchase comprehensive and longitudinal inpatient and hospital-based outpatient data.

The Securities and Exchange Commission will purchase a digital assets data subscription from Anchain AI.

This contract action seeks to award a sole-source award on a brand name basis to Sayari Analytics LLS for four licenses to access their Search Engine Database. 

Award to the University of Texas at Austin.

Commerce discloses more AI use cases in updated inventory

The Department of Commerce has updated its inventory of AI use cases, a list of deployments of the technology that many federal agencies are required to produce by a 2020 Trump administration executive order.

Top US Spies Meet With Privacy Experts Over Surveillance 'Crown Jewel'

Senior United States intelligence officials met privately in Virginia yesterday with over a dozen civil liberties groups to field concerns about domestic surveillance operations that have drawn intense scrutiny this summer among an unlikely coalition of Democratic and Republican lawmakers in the US Congress.

How Biden's $60 billion will transform IRS technology

And U.S. Deputy Treasury Secretary Wally Adeyemo has said that “the IRS is going to hire more data scientists than they ever have for enforcement purposes,” with the goal of using data analytics in audits.

CFPB Announces Decision To Launch Rulemaking Targeting Data Brokers

Following a related request for information (RFI) earlier this year, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) announced on August 15, 2023, its intention to launch rulemaking targeting data brokers. This rulemaking could significantly expand the scope of the entities and data subject to the Fair Credit Reporting Act (FCRA), including by imposing onerous requirements on entities and data not previously subject to the law.

California Gov. Newsom orders study of generative AI use in state government

Newsom’s order tells state agencies to create risk assessment reports for how AI could affect their work, California’s economy and the state’s energy usage. It also urges legislators to establish new policies and regulations for the technology, ensuring that AI tools the state purchases are developed and used responsibly.

AUKUS partnership success hinges on export controls for sensitive tech, officials say 

Government officials working in federal diplomatic policy testified before a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Wednesday, the common denominator of which emphasized leveraging the Australia-U.K.-U.S. — or AUKUS — partnership to further advance emerging technology systems, namely artificial intelligence, quantum sciences and hypersonic technology.

China telcos following their own path to AI

Feng told an AI conference in July the aim of Jiutian was to make AI a native capability of China Mobile's next generation network and support "the digital intelligence transformation."

Identity Provider (IdP) Solutions are Critical to Identifying and Mitigating Government Benefits Fraud

Slalom’s Stephen Walsh, a former public agency CIO and a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, dives into ways government agencies can identify and mitigate benefits fraud.

Supply Chain Risk Platform to Bring Visibility to Public Sector Agencies

Dun & Bradstreet introduced D&B Protect, a new supply chain risk platform designed for the North America Public Sector that illuminates sub-tier suppliers and identifies risk in real-time throughout an entire supply chain to address high-risk vulnerabilities to supply chain fraud, abuse, and exploitation by adversaries.

RELEX and FourKites Establish Strategic Partnership for Advanced Supply Chain Visibility

By integrating the RELEX AI-driven unified retail and supply chain planning platform with FourKites' real-time supply chain insights, companies can mitigate risk, protect revenue, fine-tune workforce scheduling in line with shipment timelines, and bolster comprehensive supply chain visibility. The combined solution will give customers the ability to better orchestrate the end-to-end supply chain across inventory, space, pricing and labor in one, unified platform.

Dataminr Pulse Expands to Offer AI-powered Risk Management Capabilities

Dataminr Pulse for Corporate Security’s new Risk Management capabilities enable teams to collaboratively manage risks to their business in one place, giving them a holistic view of risk events, workflows, actions, analysis and reporting, as well as prepare for risks before they occur with a comprehensive set of new AI-powered scenario planning and resource allocation capabilities.

Businesses celebrate, prep for AI changes

“I think everybody is concerned with questions, including ‘Is the output of an AI reliable? Can I trust it? Is there bias in the data? and well, what about privacy? Is my data out there secure or is someone using those?” Briggs said.

The Army’s intelligence chief discusses the service’s new OSINT strategy

The Army is making a strong push into open source intelligence. Earlier this year, the Army published its first OSINT strategy. The service’s goal is to “professionalize” its OSINT workforce and use OSINT as an intelligence discipline “of first resort,” Lt. Gen. Laura Potter, the Army’s deputy chief of staff for intelligence, tells me in this week’s show. 

Unified Data Reference Architecture Industry Day

This industry day will focus on how the Army will expose our trapped data through a Unified Data Reference Architecture making Army data visible, accessible, understandable, linked, trusted, interoperable and secure (VAULTIS).

Industry Day: NOAA'S Commercial Data Program

NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) will host a Commercial Data Program (CDP) Industry Day on November 16, 2023, from 9:30 am - 5:00 pm EST, at the Silver Spring Civic Building (719 Ellsworth Drive, Silver Spring, MD 20910). Topics will include the purpose, function, status, and plans of the Commercial Data Program, including operational data purchases and data pilot projects with commercial Radio Occultation data and other potentially valuable observations for NOAA.