The latest news and opportunities in government data and analytics                                                   

VOLUME 7. ISSUE 6.

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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 and analytics companies that share our passion for serving the public sector. Our featured items begin with the Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency’s search for a business analytics and due diligence software solution. This opportunity focuses on providing insights into private capital markets, investment activity, and M&A transactions, with tools to assess risk, analyze supply chain exposure, and evaluate financial stability.

 

  • Department of Defense (DoD), Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA), Office of Entity Vetting (OEV) — Analytical/Due Diligence Software (Licensing) - The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) Office of Entity Vetting (OEV) is seeking business analytical/due diligence software access that will deliver data, research and technology covering private capital markets including venture capital, private equity, investment activity, and merger and acquisitions (M&A) transactions. Additionally, and specifically, access to a data base that includes analytical tools which would help users make sense of the information it collects on companies, investors, deals, mergers and acquisitions, funds, advisors, and people. The solution must access and search billions of up- to-date public records and databases and provide tools for visualization of search output. Lastly, the solution must identify areas of risk related to a company’s personnel and business practices in the areas of criminal activity, financial viability, supply chain dependency, market share and criticality, foreign interconnectedness, investment relationships and other areas.

 

In other data news, on February 5th, Federal News Network published an article entitled DOGE’s ‘unimpeded’ access to classified data poses national, economic security risks. In this story, Anastasia Obis details lawmakers' demands for answers from the White House regarding DOGE's unchecked access to classified and sensitive federal data - questioning the legality, security risks, and lack of oversight of its personnel. Concerns include unauthorized system access, potential cybersecurity threats, and the broader implications for national and economic security, with some officials warning of a constitutional crisis.

 

  • 'DOGE seems to have unimpeded access to some of our nation’s most sensitive information, including classified materials and the private personal and financial information of everyday Americans. In light of such unprecedented risks to our national and economic security, we expect your immediate attention and prompt response,' the lawmakers wrote.”

 

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DCSA Public Record Data

Dept. of Defense

DCSA’s Adjudication and Vetting Services (AVS) has the potential need for consolidated and extensive criminal, financial and public record information necessary to help DCSA more effectively use data to satisfy its personnel vetting mission and supports the Trusted Workforce. Specifically, DCSA is seeking potential Vendors who are capable of providing access to automated record datasets to public records for the purpose of monitoring trusted individuals enrolled in Continuous Vetting (CV).

Single Source Intelligence INSCOM Technology RFI

Dept. of Defense

This is a request for information (RFI) seeking White Papers only for innovative technologies that accelerate attainment of critical technologies. In this context, innovative means any new technology, process, or business practice, or any new application of an existing technology, process, or business practice that contributes to enhancing of INSCOM’s military effectiveness and sustaining global peace and U.S. national security.

3ID Data Analytics Support

Dept. of Defense

The 3rd Infantry Division and Fort Stewart are modernizing their digital infrastructure with a fully scalable, internally managed common operating picture (COP) and data analytics capability. This platform is designed to ingest data from systems of record and provide data that is visible, accessible, understandable, linked, trusted, interoperable and secure.

Federal Geographic Data Committee (FGDC) Support for Geospatial Shared Services

Dept. of the Interior

The scope of this effort includes a full range of support for programmatic, administrative, facilitation, communication, architecture, data standards and technical services. These efforts will focus on development of GDA governance, planning, policy, procedures, standards and enabling users to search, discover, integrate and use geospatial data products and services to meet complex mission requirements across multiple organizations.

Sources Sought: Publicly Available Information (PAI) Alerting Service

Dept. of Defense

Response to questions.

ATTN Cedric Jackson FY 2025 PIO Data Investigative Subscription (VA-25-00011266)

Dept. of Veterans Affairs

Response to questions.

Media Monitoring Services

Dept. of State

The solicitation was cancelled and will be reissued at a later date.

Structured Finance Transactions Modeling and Credit Risk Modeling Applications

Federal Housing Finance Agency

FHFA requires a fully integrated system for credit risk modeling of structured finance transactions such as residential mortgage-backed securities (RMBS), commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), residential and multifamily agency credit risk transfer (CRT) securities, and stand-alone credit risk modeling applications for residential and commercial mortgage loans (Whole Loans).

Notice of Intent - World FAB Forecast Data Subscription

Dept. of Commerce

OICT and DOC are seeking to procure a quarterly data subscription, with comprehensive data on the operations of semiconductor fabs around the world. This data is presented in a format that can be sorted by fab, device manufacturer, region, and wafer size, providing details on operations and capacity for each fab.

Full RSMeans data library

Dept. of Defense

The Naval Air Warfare Center, Weapons Division, China Lake, CA intends to procure on an other than full and open basis the following items: 1) Full RSMeans data library POP 1/31/2025 to 1/30/2026.

Pentagon prototypes AI platform to better analyze adversaries’ news media

Dept. of Defense

The Pentagon’s AI acceleration hub recently moved to operationally prototype custom, commercial machine learning models that can monitor and assess adversarial media and associated data to support U.S. national security missions and swiftly supply predictions based on high-tech analysis.

Palantir partners with data-labeling startup to improve accuracy of AI models

Dept. of Defense

Under the agreement, federal customers using Palantir’s Foundry system — a software-based data analytics platform that leverages AI and machine learning to automate decision-making — will be able to request data labeling services from Enabled Intelligence. The goal of the partnership is to improve the accuracy of custom AI models built by users by providing them with higher-quality datasets to create and test them with.

Spire Global Canada nets $72M contract to design WildFireSat mission

Government of Canada

Spire has agreed to design and develop the dedicated satellite constellation. OroraTech has agreed to develop the wildfire detection payloads that will be deployed on the satellites, as well as build the data handling and processing system.

Renewal of Coveo for Sitecore Enterprise Cloud Subscription

Dept. of Energy

The Department of Energy is awarding a contract to Coveo Software Corp for a Sitecore Enterprise Cloud Subscription.

CFPB Updates List of Consumer Reporting Companies for 2025

On January 30, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB or Bureau) released its updated list of consumer reporting companies for 2025. The list includes nationwide consumer reporting companies as well as several other companies that focus on specific market areas, consumer segments, and types of users. According to the CFPB, consumers can use the list to know about the kinds of personal financial information that is collected for credit and other consumer reports, request their consumer reporting data, dispute inaccuracies, and block access to their credit reporting data through security freezes.

Does DOGE have what it takes to actually tackle billions in US govt IT spending?

Tesla reportedly decided not to upgrade its SAP's enterprise software a decade ago, opting to build its own system instead. Now, with Elon Musk heading up the Trump-blessed US Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE), his cost-cutting mindset could have major implications for federal IT spending - and the big tech vendors cashing in on government contracts. If he thought SAP was too bloated and overpriced, what does that mean for big-spending government departments?

Army finalizing contracting approach for scaled-up version of enterprise data platform

The service published a request for information in November that sought comments on the organization’s vision for the so-called ADP 2.0 — including plans to sign on multiple companies that can offer additional easy-to-use data analytics tools and support the platform’s growing number of users. Now, officials are taking responses from both the RFI and input given during a recent industry day to craft a final request for proposal, with the intent to award initial contracts sometime this year.

Trump administration orders consumer protection agency to stop work, closes building

Russell Vought, the newly installed director of the Office of Management and Budget, directed the CFPB, in a Saturday night email confirmed by The Associated Press, to stop work on proposed rules, to suspend the effective dates on any rules that were finalized but not yet effective, and to stop investigative work and not begin any new investigations.

No data for Musk: US Federal Judge blocks DOGE from getting its hands on

A federal judge early Saturday blocked Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency from accessing Treasury Department records that contain sensitive personal data such as Social Security and bank account numbers for millions of Americans. US District Judge Paul A. Engelmayer issued the preliminary injunction after 19 Democratic attorneys general sued President Donald Trump.

Retaliation and Economic Uncertainty: The High Stakes of Trump’s Tariff Policies

President Trump has identified other U.S. allies – the European Union and United Kingdom – as potential upcoming targets of tariffs as well. This is a dramatic shift from the ongoing re-globalization of the global economy and supply chains along geopolitical fault lines and is a much more aggressive adoption of the economic nationalism and the mercantile policies that undermined globalization almost a century ago. 

A quiet revolution: driving efficiency in government using 'pragmatic AI'

During a recent Global Government Forum webinar with knowledge partner Unit4, public and private sector experts discussed what is known as ‘quiet’ or ‘pragmatic’ AI. As Bryce Wolf, Unit4’s director of strategic growth, put it: “It’s not about dramatic overhauls or flashy technologies, it’s about integrating AI quietly and pragmatically to make everyday processes more efficient and effective.

Australia bans DeepSeek AI program on government devices

The DeepSeek chatbot -- developed by a China-based startup -- has astounded industry insiders and upended financial markets since it was released last month. But a growing list of countries including South Korea, Italy and France have voiced concerns about the application's security and data practices.

LinkedIn Co-founder Reid Hoffman Believes AI Agents Will Be an Essential Part of How We Work

We spoke with Hoffman—who is also a co-founder of AI startups Manas AI and Inflection AI, a Microsoft board member, a venture capitalist at Greylock, and a former OpenAI board member—about how his vision for AI could apply to a workplace context. Here are excerpts from our conversation, edited for space and clarity.

Cofactr Acquires AI Solution to Manage Supply Chains That Bring Together Thousands of Parts and Hundreds of Suppliers to Create Products in the U.S.

Cofactr will integrate Factor.io's capabilities into its unified platform, where critical hardware manufacturers and R&D teams manage and automate every process involved in getting products to market fast while navigating rigorous corporate and governmental processes. Now, they will additionally have complete visibility into the status of every part in their Bill of Materials (BOM), across the end-to-end direct material management process.

Google drops pledge on never using AI for weapons, surveillance

In a blog post on Tuesday, Google executives James Manyika and Demis Hassabis defended the move. They emphasised that AI frameworks from democratic countries have helped Google better understand AI’s potential and risks. “There’s a global competition taking place for AI leadership within an increasingly complex geopolitical landscape. We believe democracies should lead in AI development, guided by core values like freedom, equality, and respect for human rights,” the blog post said.

New 'moonshot challenge' at Harvard aims to make giant leap in AI

Humanity has big hopes for artificial intelligence, but in reality machines have a long way to go to catch up with the human brain. Enter Harvard University, which has just won a $28 million grant to change all that.

AI & Big Data Expo North America 2025

Explore what’s new and worth attention in the AI and big data ecosystem at AI & Big Data Expo North America. Join us at the Santa Clara Convention Center in CA, USA on 4-5 June 2025 to hear from industry leaders representing companies such as PayPal, Bank of America, Meta, HelloFresh, United Nations, Capital One and many more.

Securing AI for Battlefield Effective Robustness (SABER) Proposers Day

DARPA I2O is sponsoring an unclassified hybrid Proposers Day in support of the anticipated Securing Artificial Intelligence for Battlefield Effective Robustness (SABER) Broad Agency Announcement (BAA). The purpose of this event is to provide information on the SABER technical goals and challenges, address questions from potential proposers, and provide an opportunity for potential proposers to consider how their research may align with the SABER program objectives.

Gov Identity Summit 2025

Join us at the Digital Identity Destination for U.S. Public Sector. You will deep dive into modern Identity and access management approaches designed for people working to bolster our nation’s cyber posture and improve public services.

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