The latest news and opportunities in government data and analytics                                                   

VOLUME 7. ISSUE 22.

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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 SEC’s request for a Global Market Pricing Data Subscription. The agency seeks an enterprise license for 10+ years of historical and daily pricing, security master data, and exchange rates across global asset classes, with robust API access to support analytics and legal use.

 

  • The United States Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) — Global Market Pricing data subscription - The data subscription shall cover a broad range of securities, including global equities, fixed income, and certain categories of futures and options. The data subscription shall also cover global exchange rates and security master file information. The data subscription shall cover at least a ten-year history for all securities that were in the marketplace, with point-in-time identifiers as well as any changes to these identifiers.

 

In other data news, on May 26th, BiometricUpdate.com published an article entitled Hacks cause Login.gov to advance digital ID verification through remote proofing. In this story, Anthony Kimery describes GSA's overhaul of Login.gov’s identity verification processes after a series of breaches, as they seek scalable, privacy-conscious solutions for document authentication and facial matching.

 

  • This next generation of Login.gov’s remote unsupervised identity proofing solutions, which has a potential total value of $7.5 million, reflects a transformative shift in how the federal government is operationalizing identity verification. It is designed not only to increase security and accuracy, but also to prioritize usability, accessibility, and inclusivity.”

 

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Data Analytics

Dept. of Homeland Security

The purpose of this procurement is to allow ICE organizations to quickly and efficiently engage the growing use of aggregated data to include proprietary data to precisely target criminal investigations of criminal, fraud, risk, and terrorism activity by utilizing data analysis to transform data into actionable insights.

TV and Radio Monitoring Support Services Subscription

Dept. of Defense

The television news video database shall provide a fast, easily searchable way to find defense- and national security-related TV news segments from all major U.S. TV networks, and well over a hundred foreign, regional and local sources. The addition of video segments from these sources shall continuously take place at nearly the same time they appear on the networks’ host sites and stations.

RFI: RADAR-AS-A-SERVICE

Dept. of Commerce

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), National Weather Service (NWS) is conducting market research on the technological capabilities of vendors to support the planning for a future generation network of weather radars to replace the aging Weather Surveillance Radar (WSR-88D) operated by the interagency Next Generation Radar (NEXRAD) program.

Cyberspace Situational Awareness System (CySAS).

North Atlantic Treaty Organization

One of the key responsibilities of ACO Cyberspace Operations Centre (CyOC) is to build, maintain and disseminate Cyberspace Situational Awareness in order to support operational decision making. This entails much more than knowing the status of the underlying communications and information systems. It entails being able to define and describe the cyber domains of interest for the mission(s); monitor the status of NATO and non-NATO networks; define dependencies and mission impacts; collect information on threats and vulnerabilities; determine potential courses of action and propose mitigation actions, when appropriate.

PEO SDA CSO PM Intel Digital ISR Area of Interest

Dept. of Defense

Response to questions posted.

Persistent Wide Area Maritime Surveillance (PWAMS) Concept of Operations (CONOPS) for USCG CG-741

Dept. of Homeland Security

Response to questions posted and submission instructions revised.

DoD Clause Logic Service

Dept. of Defense

Notification of a strategic pause to understand how implementation of Executive Order 14275 may affect the requirements for Clause Logic Service (CLS) modernization efforts.

Army Declassification Modernization

Dept. of Defense

Response due date extended to June 10, 2025.

Notice of Intent to Award Sole Source Contract – Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Global Market Intelligence Subscription

Dept. of the Treasury

S&P Global Market Intelligence has identified common items across regulatory reports and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) accounts for different types of institutions and across countries, which facilitates analysis that incorporates national banks, thrifts and other banking organizations in the U.S. and the development of analytical tools that apply across a wide range of countries.

Notice of Intent to Sole Source-Bloomberg Government Online Subscription Services

Dept. of Labor

OCIA requires online access to Bloomberg’s Government comprehensive suite of federal legislative news and tracking services. This access will be facilitated through a single, centralized web portal, ensuring that all services are available under one easily accessible link.

Standards and Specifications Subscription

Dept. of Defense

The Army Futures Command Combat Capability Development Command - Chemical Biological Center (DEVCOM CBC) requires subscription to industry specifications and standards from multiple Standard Developing Organizations (SDOs). This effort will enable AFC to continue an AFC wide Standards & Specifications Information Solution in order to maintain existing efficiencies and cost savings.

Bloomberg Anywhere - 1 year subscription from 06/01/2025 to 5/31/2026. Follow-on to order 89303024FIA000017. Price includes 1.25% discount when paid annually.

Dept. of Energy

The Department of Energy is awarding a contract to Bloomberg Finance LP for a one year subscription.

CDAO - APT EA and AWG Sustainment - DRAID BOA Holders

Dept. of Defense

Army Contracting Command - Rock Island (ACC-RI), acting on behalf of the requiring Activity (RA), Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Office (CDAO), hereby awards the requirement for the Analytic Product Team (APT), Enterprise Analytic (EA), and Analysis Working Group (AWG) Sustainment Team on a small business set-aside basis to Black Cape, Inc.

Annual Subscription for Wards Auto

Environmental Protection Agency

The Environmental Protection Agency is awarding a contract to Informa Tech LLC for an annual online subscription with desktop access to Wards Auto Intelligence.

Joint Data Analysis Support

Dept. of Defense

The OSD/CAPE has a requirement to provide data development, analysis and information technology support to implement Joint Data Support (JDS) activities associated with the DoD’s Analytical Support Services to Future Force Planning. JDS provides data development and analysis support to DoD’s studies and analysis in the following functional areas: Air and Space; Ground; Maritime; Logistics; Command & Control (C2) Communications & Computer systems (C4); and Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR).

Air Force, Coast Guard Talk Data Security Efforts for AI Development

The Air Force and Coast Guard are strengthening defenses against data poisoning and other cybersecurity risks as they scale up artificial intelligence development. Leaders from both services detailed efforts to ensure AI models are built on clean, protected data.

Trump entrusts Palantir, a data analytics firm, with merging Americans' information

The Trump administration has stepped up its collaboration with Palantir Technologies, giving the data analytics firm a central role in integrating personal information on U.S. citizens across multiple federal agencies, according to a report from the New York Times. In March, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing federal agencies to share data, aiming to “eliminate information silos and streamline data collection across all agencies to increase government efficiency and save hard-earned taxpayer dollars.”

Fannie Mae partners with Palantir on mortgage fraud detection tech

FHFA Director Bill Pulte, who also serves as chairman of the Fannie Mae board, said the financial crimes division that monitors Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac “is only able to root out crime that it gets made aware of.” Palantir’s red-flag approach, meanwhile, tips off those investigators to conduct probes they otherwise might not have known to launch.

Helping DOGE break down data silos

Imagine trying to get a complete picture of a citizen's interaction with various government services when their information is scattered across dozens of different databases, managed by separate agencies or even sub-departments. Or, think about coordinating disaster response when critical infrastructure data, population demographics and emergency service resources reside in incompatible systems.

AI is only as smart as its data, so how to make it ready for real missions?

The phrase “garbage in, garbage out” has never been truer than it is in today’s era of artificial intelligence and Large Language Models that are only as trustworthy as the data they were trained on. Bad data can lead to AI models “hallucinating,” which makes them undependable and unusable for many defense applications.

DHS S&T testing provides opportunity to examine and improve mobile document verification

Using any smartphone, a selfie, driver’s license or any copy of any official document can be transferred digitally without hours of waiting. With the convenience of digital transmissions comes the exploitation of bad actors and professional fraudsters who can potentially rake in millions of dollars pretending to be someone else.

The case for careful reform of the federal statistical system: Preserving data integrity in an era of government transformation

In dire need of strengthening, the federal statistical system is under significant stress due to a cascade of interconnected challenges fundamentally impacting its ability to perform over the years.

‘E-authentication’ memo puts the focus on secure, usable digital identity

Identity management technologies are evolving rapidly. But cyber attackers and fraudsters alike are taking advantage of gaps and lapses in identity management to steal data and money. Adversaries are already using artificial intelligence to supercharge their attacks using AI-aided phishing, deep fakes and more.

Data broker giant LexisNexis says breach exposed personal information of over 364,000 people

It’s not immediately clear what circumstances led to the breach. Richman said LexisNexis received a report on April 1, 2025 “from an unknown third party claiming to have accessed certain information.” The company would not say if it had received a ransom demand from the hacker.

Salesforce CEO Says $8B Informatica Buy Will Create ‘Most Complete’ AI Data Platform In The Industry

The acquisition aims to enhance Salesforce’s data foundation for deploying powerful and responsible agentic AI. The combination of Informatica’s data catalog, data integration, data governance and privacy, data quality, metadata management, and MDM services with the Salesforce platform will create a unified architecture for agentic AI, the company said.

Accrete AI and Carahsoft Partner to Deliver AI Solutions for Social Media and Supply Chain Influence to the Public Sector

“The sheer volume and complexity of the data collected by the Department of Defense (DoD) and the Intelligence Community has resulted in an unprecedented analytic burden which represents a significant vulnerability,” said Bill Wall, CEO of Accrete AI Government. “Accrete’s AI Knowledge Engine platform is highly configurable, which enables Expert AI Agents such as Argus to gather massive volumes of information, analyze that information using encoded tacit human domain knowledge, and surface insights by revealing hidden relationships.”

Ethics in automation: Addressing bias and compliance in AI

As companies rely more on automated systems, ethics has become a key concern. Algorithms increasingly shape decisions that were previously made by people, and these systems have an impact on jobs, credit, healthcare, and legal outcomes. That power demands responsibility. Without clear rules and ethical standards, automation can reinforce unfairness and cause harm.

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