USCIS requires information for businesses around the globe that is verified by third party data sources for the agency’s Risk and Fraud portfolio. The third party will host and provision its global database via its web service, perform Entity Matching to associate business information with its record, and provide research services through subscription and performance of inquiries.

The purpose for this contract is to expand the CFA’s data network and have access to medical records of patients in the data network to investigate trends and to detect, monitor, and characterize emerging infectious and noninfectious threats. The core elements of the contract comprise of data sources, medical records, analytic capabilities, operations and management, and transition services.

FHFA is seeking to obtain an asset backed security/mortgage backed security (ABS/MBS) loan level dataset. The data will be used for modeling and monitoring the current and projected financial credit risk exposure of the Federal Home Loan Banks and the Enterprises’ investments in private label securities (PLS) deals.

This RFI is to identify publicly available assessments that recognize businesses or other organizations through a rigorous evaluation of performance outcomes across multiple dimensions; including, but not necessarily limited to, financial and market performance, customer satisfaction and engagement, and workforce satisfaction and engagement. 

Response to questions.

Response date changed to August 11, 2023.

Response to questions. Response date extended to August 4, 2023.

All one-on-one meetings with companies to review responses have been scheduled.

Data must include (but is not limited to) information on demographics, psychographics, lifestyle habits, consumer purchasing patterns, financial behaviors, health conditions, media habits (both traditional and social media/digital technology use), sports and entertainment interests, as well as attitudinal and behavioral items regarding health and perceived health threats on a large national scale.

The Forest Service intends to award a sole source firm-fixed price contract to LightBox Parent, L.P. to procure LightBox Landowner Parcel Data – National Database Subscription Annual User License. The product provides spatially explicit, parcel ownership data for the U.S. Data for all lands within all 50 US states provided in ESRI Geo Database format with separate polygon and point files for each state.

The U.S. Census Bureau intends to award a noncompetitive contract to the Circana Group L.P. to provide aggregated retail point-of sale/scanner transaction data.

The Department of Energy, Energy Information Administration (EIA), intends to issue a firm fixed price sole source award utilizing Simplified Acquisition Procedures for Certain Commercial Products to Oil Price Information Service (OPIS), LLC for data services that provide an integrated suite of crude oil, refined petroleum products, ethanol, and biofuels data and news information services to support EIA’s collection, statistical estimation, analysis, modeling, and data validation needs.

In accordance with the attached J&A, currently there are over 325 million vaccine records representing 152 million unique individuals which have had HealthVerity PPRL-IDs attached to them. These PPRL-IDs are used to match and link historically received de-identified data from jurisdictions with new de-identified data reported on a routine basis.

This procurement is for access to a database of verified real estate transactions with a nationwide scope of coverage of all segments, which is the scope required to support the NAVFAC Appraisers' effectiveness.

“By incorporating PlanetiQ’s commercial high quality GNSS-RO data, coupled with our deep understanding of RO technology, NOAA will have the information to significantly improve short and medium-range weather forecasts, and provide essential insights to enhance climate change research for the government, military and the private sector,” Ira Scharf, PlanetiQ CEO, said.

Upcoming strategy to outline agency’s supply chain security approach

Operations, acquisition and information technology teams at DLA Headquarters are outlining the strategy, which will chart how the agency detects and responds to problems in supply chain operations caused by threats like natural disasters, geopolitical developments, diminishing manufacturers, cyberattacks and nefarious activities.

The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency takes on artificial intelligence

The National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is about, well geography of course, and data. And now it’s about artificial intelligence. For a progress report,  Federal Drive Host Tom Temin checked in with the NGA’s director of data and digital innovation, Mark Munsell.

More proof of FBI abuse sparks calls for Congress to stop warrantless spying

"One warrantless query for Americans' private communications is one too many, and this opinion shows the government is still conducting hundreds of thousands per year, including thousands in violation of their own lax rules," said Jake Laperruque, deputy director of the Center for Democracy & Technology's Security & Surveillance Project, in a Friday statement.

Regulations to govern use of AI in health records could come later this year

A proposed rule from HHS would require electronic health record systems using AI and algorithms to provide information to users about how those technologies work.

US Spies Are Lobbying Congress to Save a Phone Surveillance 'Loophole'

The extent to which the NSA in particular uses data brokers to obtain location and web-browsing data is unclear, though the agency has previously acknowledged using data from “commercial” sources in connection with cyber defense.

US Senate Leader Champions More AI Security, Explainability

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer unveiled a framework for artificial intelligence development focused on security, accountability, explainability and minimizing foreign interference. Schumer, D-N.Y, urged lawmakers to put guardrails in place that ensure autocratic governments and rogue domestic actors can't use artificial intelligence for illicit or bad purposes such as financial extortion or political upheaval.

AI is a child: How do we raise it?

Like humans, AI can be a product of their environment and experiences and shape the way they perceive the world through their innate learning capabilities. I have narrowed down 5 potential near future AI events involving how to parent and help raise it, potential influences on its development and how it may directly help humans in the real world.

Blockchain in Finance:Legislative and Regulatory Actions Are Needed to Ensure Comprehensive Oversight of Crypto Assets

Blockchain technology records data and transactions in a shared, tamper-resistant, decentralized digital ledger—offering the promise of faster and cheaper financial transactions with no middlemen. Recent price crashes, bankruptcies, and fraud involving blockchain-related products and services, such as crypto assets, raised concerns about how much regulation exists now and the risks consumers face.

AWS Announces the General Availability of AWS Entity Resolution to Help Organizations Improve Data Quality and Customer Insights

The service offers customizable workflows that utilize rule-based and ML techniques for joining consumer, business, and product information. Business analysts and developers can quickly enhance data fidelity using preconfigured workflows or customize them to suit their specific needs. The service can be used by a wide range of industries and is applicable to scenarios such as fraud prevention, customer profiling, and supply chain optimization.

Alternative Data In Credit Reports Could Have Unintended Consequences

On April 27, the bipartisan group of senators held a hearing in which, for the first time, the CEOs of the three major credit reporting agencies, Equifax, Experian and TransUnion, testified in Congress. The committee members asked them difficult questions regarding controversial policies and practices pervading the credit reporting industry, including medical debt reporting, data breaches, credit invisibility and dispute investigation.

Babel Street Selected by the Institute for the Study of War for Strategic Partnership

"The ISW is a highly respected analysis team and think tank with unparalleled readership in open-source intelligence,” said Michael Southworth, CEO of Babel Street. “At Babel Street, we’ve designed our Insights platform to be powerful and user-friendly, ensuring quick adoption even in high-stakes environments. Our partnership showcases our ability to accelerate time to insights, enabling ISW to delve deeper into complex situations and communicate strategic insights effectively."

CAPE Analytics Partners with Intermap Technologies, Integrating Digital Surface Models Into its Property Intelligence Offerings

This new relationship with Intermap adds to CAPE’s wide array of data partnerships and Foundry platform, which uses machine learning to fuse and analyze diverse datasets and deliver the most accurate property insights available. In particular, CAPE will utilize Intermap’s DSM data to power property attributes that require an understanding of terrain and surface elevation, such as parcel slope and the visible view from a property.