VOLUME 4. ISSUE 44.

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Welcome to Carpe Datum’s weekly newsletter, the Federal Data Prospector, the only publication of its kind dedicated exclusively to Data & Analytics companies that share our passion for serving the Public Sector. This week, our featured items begin with a request from the Air Force for information on vetting and credentialing solutions that can screen visitors and employees to confirm identity and assess risk.

 

  • Department of Defense, Department of the Air Force — Access Control Vetting - The Air Force Life Cycle Material Command (AFLCMC) Environmental and Industrial Facilities Branch, Wright-Patterson AFB, Ohio (AFLCMC/EZV), requires expert services vetting government employees and visitors against an authoritative law enforcement database is necessary to determine the fitness and reliability of personnel accessing our facilities and the associated national security resources and information. The Contractor shall provide the capability to vet credentials to authoritative law enforcement databases including but not limited to: National Crime Information Center (NCIC) Person Files (including Wanted Persons, Violent Persons, Immigration Violators, Known or Appropriately Suspected Terrorists, and National Sex Offender Registry), Interstate Identification Index (III), National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System (Nlets), and Commercial criminal background screening.

 

In other data news, on October 5th, Government Technology published an article entitled White House Publishes AI Guidance, Voluntary ‘Bill of Rights’. In this story, the Government Technology news staff describes the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy's recently released blueprint for an “AI Bill of Rights.” At its core, the document serves as a voluntary guide detailing how to responsibly deploy artificial intelligence to protect the rights of citizens.

 

  • The blueprint notes concerns associated with technology, including exclusionary hiring and health care and credit practices, as well as the potential to unjustly track individuals online and through social media platforms. Additionally, using automated systems to surveil workplaces, schools and in the law enforcement space were also areas of concern.”

 

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Science of AI: Basic Applied R&D

Dept. of Defense

The goal of this basic research topic is to develop a principled computational framework and architecture for vision-language interaction, informed by human performance, that is open-domain and capable of strong compositional generalization.

Hyperspectral Data Products

Dept. of Defense

The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL), located in Washington, DC, is seeking to purchase Hyperspectural Data Products.

Night Haunter

Dept. of Defense

The Department of Defense (DoD) seeks new technologies that will improve the U.S. military’s ability to track a path in GPS and network-denied environments (e.g., subterranean, dense structures, under water, etc.) using commercial and/or internet of things (IoT) devices.

Congressional Research Service

Dept. of Defense

The contractor shall provide NAVSUP HQ OCC personnel 24/7/365 access to its website/software that will allow those who access the contractor system to monitor media Congressional affairs from a variety of resources.

Agency Information Management and Software Services (AIMSS)

Dept. of Defense

Finalized acquisition strategy for the Agency Information Management and Software Services (AIMSS) contract.

Draft Attachment X - Performance Work Statement Template

Dept. of Veterans Affairs

Statement of Work added and extended response date to October 17, 2022.

USACESS 2.0, Identity, Credential, and Access Management

General Services Administration

Extended response date to October 14, 2022.

Financial Data Analysis - Notice of Intent to Sole Source

Dept. of the Treasury

The requirement is to provide online access to a commercial off the shelf (COTS) financial data product that has been standardized and modified for year to year research.

Monitor and analyze the status of infant formula supply chain impacts and respond to White House requests on the outbreak - Additional datasets

Dept. of Health and Human Services

This requirement is to purchase critically needed data sets to help understand and monitor infant formula supply chain impacts and product recalls and delays.

Justification to an Exception for Fair Opportunity: NOAA Financial Management Data System

Dept. of Commerce

The system fuses data from a variety of disparate data sources into one filterable and manageable data set, and presents the information through custom visualizations that quickly and effectively allow the user to extrapolate the relevant metrics without assistance from others.

CMS' Supply Chain Risk Management (SCRM) Program - Logical Follow-on

Dept. of Health and Human Services

CMS has contracted for support with the development of a fully robust and scalable SCRM program to meet all of the requirements; to include Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management (C-SCRM), which encompasses cybersecurity, Software Bill of Materials (SBOMs), and application reviews prior to obtaining an Authorization to Operate (ATO) and rolling-out the program over on a network. 

Data Science Rapid Prototyping

Dept. of Defense

The contractor will provide information systems and data science expertise to ADST in order to develop and transition applications, processes, and tools across NIPRNet, SIPRNet, and JWICS networks.

ICE Awards Indev Analytics and Visualization Services Contract

Dept. of Homeland Security

Indev will focus on empowering user communities with the ability to leverage analytics and visualization solutions to make data driven decisions through dashboards, reporting, and related solutions leveraging microservices, Tableau, Qlik, PowerBI and other industry leading tools and platforms.

IMMAD/GATE

Dept. of Defense

USSTRATCOM requires further high impact improvements to the current GATE and IMMAD platforms, which integrate all-source intelligence information on a variety of DOD problem sets into one comprehensive display to maintain situational awareness and advise DOD Senior Leadership.

Palantir Selected by Army Materiel Command to Support Prognostic and Predictive Maintenance Requirements

Dept. of Defense

AMC will utilize Palantir's software to support logistics in contested environments, improve equipment reliability, and advance supply chain optimization.

Labor Department, USPS team up on ID proofing

A pilot project set to launch in 2023 will see the Department of Labor and the postal service teaming up to help unemployment insurance applicants verify identities on behalf of participating states.

DISA’s Sweeping New Plan Takes Aim at Data Silos, Mistagged Info

The strategy, dated in July and publicly released in late August, lays out four lines of effort: data architecture and governance, advanced analytics, data culture, and knowledge management.

NASA Still Falls Short of Geospatial Data Act Compliance, Watchdog Says

NASA has only complied with about half of its key geospatial responsibilities, according to a government watchdog; however, the agency has made progress since the previous audit report.

OIG Medicare Telehealth Data Brief Demonstrates Continued Focus on Data Analytics in Program Integrity Efforts

The data brief is OIG’s latest effort to use data analytics to identify program integrity concerns and includes specific proposals to improve data quality to aid in program integrity efforts.

Federal Agencies Pledge Support For Biden’s AI Framework

Leadership from various federal agencies discussed their individual plans to help enforce the blueprint for the first national artificial intelligence framework, following its formal release today.

State beefs up gun crime data analysis

The center will create an information-sharing interface between information management systems of the Connecticut Forensic Science Laboratory and law enforcement for forensic data on firearms used in crimes.

Next-gen health info exchange enables more data-informed decisions, better care

As Maryland’s newly designated health data utility, CRISP can access more data, expand and scale services and better support other state agencies.

Biden order promises EU citizens better data privacy

The order builds on a preliminary agreement Biden announced in March with European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen in a bid to end a yearslong battle over the safety of EU citizens’ data that tech companies store in the U.S.

The fight against money laundering: Machine learning is a game changer

Recent enhancements in machine learning (ML) are helping banks to improve their anti-money-laundering (AML) programs significantly, including, and most immediately, the transaction monitoring element of these programs.

ZoomInfo Expands Global Business Contact Database To More Than 235M Profiles

ZoomInfo, a go-to-market software, data and intelligence provider, revealed its global contact database has grown to more than 235 million B2B professional profiles, including more than 145 million contacts in markets outside of the U.S.

Palantir and Concordance Announce Partnership to Power First, Fully Integrated Medical Supply Chain Ecosystem

Those utilizing this new supply chain platform will have access to the ecosystem’s live inventory data and supply chain signals within an actionable interface – meaning complete line of sight and proactive signals into supply chain information at each stage, from production, to point-of-care.

BigBear.ai developing 'intelligent automation platform' to replace 14 legacy systems for Army

Artificial intelligence analytics company BigBear.ai is developing an “intelligent automation platform” for the Army that a company executive says will streamline over a dozen outdated data systems into one solution, getting rid of manual processes as the service moves toward becoming more data-driven.

Workforce data key to unlocking DEIA at State Department -- All About the Data Podcast

Amb. Gina Abercrombie-Winstanley, the State Department’s chief diversity and inclusion officer, discusses how disaggregated workforce data is key to the department’s five-year goals to improve diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility.

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