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 Air Force Materiel Command's (AFMC) procurement of a data-driven SAS solution that can uncover supply chain vulnerabilities through comprehensive vendor intelligence that includes company backgrounds, financial health, and corporate structures.
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Department of Defense (DoD), U.S. Air Force, Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) — Vendor-Specific Supply Chain Risk Information Licenses - SCRM is part of a strategy that integrates capabilities across the Command to protect and secure Air Force interests in the global commercial industrial base. This PWS facilitates the accomplishment of SCRM activities such as Supply Chain Risk Management, Supply Chain Illuminations, Supply Chain Risk Analysis, and programmatic services to support risk triage and mitigation, as well as the procurement of tools that support improved shared situational awareness and decision-making across the various echelons of the military hierarchy including individual level, installation level, and management headquarters level. This effort is ultimately designed to support and enhance the visibility of suppliers in sub-tiers of the supply chain and identify and potentially address any vulnerabilities that may affect supply chain providers.
In other data news, on March 10th, SpaceNews published an article entitled Intelligence agency copes with workforce reductions amid AI modernization. In this story, Sandra Erwin describes the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's management of staff reductions while accelerating AI integration. Despite workforce uncertainty, NGA leadership remains focused on its mission, expanding AI initiatives like Project Maven to handle increasing intelligence data.
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“As the agency manages workforce realignment, it is simultaneously accelerating efforts to integrate artificial intelligence into analysts’ workflows. This push aims to increase productivity and expedite intelligence delivery to decision makers, building upon foundations established by Project Maven, an initiative launched in 2017 to apply AI to drone footage and satellite imagery analysis. “We’re talking this year about a true acceleration of AI,” [Vice Adm. Frank] Whitworth said.”
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Sources Sought : Global Market Pricing Data Subscription
Securities and Exchange Commission
| The SEC requires a subscription to global market pricing data to support various analytic tools. 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. | |
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Wildland-Urban Interface Risk Approaches
Dept. of Agriculture
| This project aims to develop and deliver a database of wildfire-affected building footprints, classified by building type, attributed with structure separation distance (SSD), construction materials, and uncertainty categorized for this data. The database will cover significant spatiotemporal extents (e.g., 2010 to 2022 in the U.S.) and include unique information from the National Fire Incident Reporting Systems and other databases. High-resolution (e.g., 1 meter) pre-fire and post-fire-affected vegetation datasets will be derived at select fires. | |
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Request for Information: NOAA NESDIS Commercial Satellite Data-as-a-Service (Including Weather and Space Environmental Data)
Dept. of Commerce
| NOAA is requesting information on commercial satellite environmental data and related capabilities available from FY2026 to FY2032, either 2 currently on orbit or planned to be on orbit, that contribute to NOAA’s diverse mission objectives. Responses to this RFI will be used to inform the NOAA NESDIS Commercial Data Program (CDP) of the industry capabilities for Commercial Weather Data Pilot (CWDP) projects, operational data purchases, and other applications in the areas of terrestrial weather and space weather. | |
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Media Monitoring and Analysis Solution
Dept. of Defense
| By integrating a media monitoring solution into its communications program, Office of Communications will have instant visibility to actionable intelligence that is critical to streamlining its day-to-day efforts, building strategy, managing reputations, executing campaigns, and optimizing reporting. | |
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Cost-of-Living Data Collection and Analysis
Dept. of Defense
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ARPA-H ImagiNg Data EXchange (INDEX)
Dept. of Health and Human Services
| Proposal due date extended to April 18, 2025. | |
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Mobile Biometric Application RFI 01302025
Dept. of Justice
| Response to questions posted. | |
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Signals Intelligence Focused Technologies for Exploitation and Reporting (SIFTER)
Dept. of Defense
| Technical point of contact updated throughout the synopsis. | |
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Notice of Intent to Sole Source to Janes Group US LLC.
Dept. of Defense
| Naval Supply Systems Command (NAVSUP) Fleet Logistics Center San Diego (FLCSD) intends to award a firm fixed price contract to Jane’s Group US LLC...The requirement is for a database that provides high quality, timely, reliable, validated, unbiased, and relevant open-source defense intelligence. | |
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Premier Healthcare Solutions, Inc. Healthcare Database License and Data Delivery
Dept. of Health and Human Services
| Premier is the only healthcare database of its scale with such extensive geographic coverage. The database will include data from over 100 U.S. hospitals spanning the last six years, covering both inpatient and outpatient encounters, physiological variables, microbiology, susceptibility data, and other data points found in additional databases, such as billing codes for diagnoses and procedures, medication administrations, and lab test results. | |
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DOJ Data Trends Analytics Support
Dept. of Justice
| The Department of Justice (DOJ), Justice Management Division (JMD), Procurement Services Staff (PSS), intends to award a firm-fixed price contract on a one-time, sole source basis to: Palantir USG, Inc. located at 635 Waverly Street, Palo Alto, CA 94301 for the purpose of providing Palantir Platform Evaluation Term Software License in support of DOJ Data Trends Analytics Support. | |
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Avian Data Support for the Department of Defense
Dept. of Defense
| The DoD not only fully endorses the use of the Avian Knowledge Network (AKN) but is mandating its use DoD-wide with implications for all Military Services (Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and National Guard) and over 300 military installations...The DoD AKN Program Management Plan outlines tools, tasks, and data initiatives in five broad categories for the next five years. | |
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Commercial Satellite Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program additional evaluation data
NASA
| This action is a firm-fixed price order for radio occultation data products from PlanetiQ’s commercial satellite constellations for evaluation purposes to assess quality and utility of the data. | |
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System-Wide Test and Evaluation and Applied Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Dept. of Defense
| The Department of Defense is awarding a contract to MORSE Corp Inc. for research and development in the area of system-wide test and evaluation and applied artificial intelligence/machine learning. | |
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Data Strategy Support Services 2 (DSSS 2)
Dept. of Homeland Security
| Without continued contractor support, OPQ and OCDO will lose contractor support for its core mission of providing USCIS immigration statistics and operational data accessibility. ... USCIS Leadership requires precise data driven analysis and insight derived from immigration and operational data to develop the policies and procedures to guide the operations of the Agency directorates, program offices, and the USCIS Front Office. | |
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BigBear.ai Awarded Contract to Modernize Critical Department of Defense Force Management Platform
Dept. of Defense
| BigBear.ai will deliver and maintain the DoD Joint Staff J-35’s ORION Decision Support Platform (DSP) which provides automated force management capabilities and data analytics to the DoD’s Joint Planning and Execution Community (JPEC). | |
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DHS Launches Remote Identity Validation Rally | The new evaluation series aims to accelerate the development of secure, accurate and user-friendly remote identity technologies. These innovations will be utilized for critical activities such as applying for government services, opening bank accounts and verifying social media accounts. | |
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NOAA firings spark concerns for agency’s data-centric mission | NOAA is one of many federal agencies in the U.S. that has cut probationary workers in recent weeks as part of President Donald Trump’s plan to reduce the size of the federal government. While critics of the Trump administration have argued the rapid and widespread staffing reductions could have adverse consequences across the government, the picture they paint with respect to NOAA’s terminations is particularly grim. | |
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Shrinking tech team endangers a nationwide disease tracking system at CDC | This system — called the National Electronic Disease Surveillance System Base System, or NBS — helps public health departments track and investigate reportable disease data and share that information with the CDC for a nationwide view to prevent and monitor diseases. | |
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CECOM uses data-centric approach to drive operational and strategic success | Over the past several years, the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command has taken significant steps to increase the ways in which it can support Army leadership. Chief among them is the evolution of data analytics as a strategic initiative. As CECOM has shifted toward becoming a more data-centric organization, it has implemented new tools and technologies that are enhancing operational efficiency through better supply chain optimization and resource management. | |
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OpenAI and Google call for US government action to secure AI lead | “As America’s world-leading AI sector approaches AGI, with a Chinese Communist Party (CCP) determined to overtake us by 2030, the Trump Administration’s new AI Action Plan can ensure that American-led AI built on democratic principles continues to prevail over CCP-built autocratic, authoritarian AI,” wrote OpenAI, in a letter to the Office of Science and Technology Policy. In a separate letter, Google echoed this sentiment by stating, “While America currently leads the world in AI – and is home to the most capable and widely adopted AI models and tools – our lead is not assured.” | |
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Rutgers, ThirdLine, and UHY Partner to Combat Fraud in Local Government Payments with AI | The collaboration combines ThirdLine’s expertise in government audit analytics and fraud detection, UHY Advisors’ government accounting experience and Rutgers’ continuous audit knowledge and advanced methods capabilities. Together, they aim to transform financial oversight in local government by applying advanced data analytics to uncover anomalies and patterns indicative of fraud and errors in vendor payments. | |
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Senate votes to scrap CFPB oversight of Big Tech payment apps | Finalised late last year, the CFPB rule is designed to ensure that the big nonbank players follow federal law just like large banks, credit unions, and others already under its supervision. In addition to the likes of Google, Apple and PayPal, it would likely impact X, which has outlined plans to add payment services this year. | |
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The UK's Digital ID Power Play: Big Finance and Government Push Corporate IDs | A major initiative is underway in the UK to develop a Digital Company ID prototype, with major financial and tech companies, government agencies and regulators, and the likes of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change, among the prominent forces behind the push. The prototype, that would be “fully functional” is defined as, “a unique digital representation of a business entity for the purpose of digital verification” – and the launch of personal digital IDs is viewed as a key part of the Digital Company ID. | |
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Dun & Bradstreet Powers New Marketing Opportunities by Seamlessly Integrating Business Data with Consumer Insights, Enabling Personalized Omnichannel Campaigns at Scale | Dun & Bradstreet (NYSE:DNB), a leading global provider of business decisioning data and analytics, today unveiled D&B ID Graph Plus, a cutting-edge identity solution that connects consumer insights with comprehensive B2B2C linked data and digital signals, offering expanded visibility to 360-degree customer profiles. | |
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Socure releases predictive risk score solution, lays out data on fraud protection | The Identity Manipulation Risk Score allows companies to estimate the likelihood of identity manipulation during account opening, high-risk transactions and dispute resolution. Identity manipulation behaviors include consumers applying for services with different emails or phone numbers to exploit organizations. | |
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Veeam and Microsoft to build new AI-powered solutions to improve customers' data resilience | Veeam will integrate Microsoft AI services, including machine learning (ML), to enhance Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365, Veeam Data Cloud Vault, and new Entra ID Solutions, which aims to strengthen identity security and resilience for cloud-first organisations. | |
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Washington, D.C., Uses Data to Deliver on Right to Shelter | Winter weather conditions create dangerous — and sometimes deadly — circumstances for the unhoused, but some experts argue better data tools can help address this issue. | |
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NASA Ames Partnership Days | On April 29-May 1, 2025, representatives from the space industry, US federal labs, government agencies, academia, and other related sectors are invited to Ames to explore the cutting-edge research, technologies, and unique capabilities that drive forward advancements in space exploration, aviation, and STEM. | |
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Event Reminder: This Thursday – Craft's Navigating the Weaponization of Supply Chains | Join us to learn how geopolitical dynamics are reshaping global supply chains and impacting government procurement strategies. This webinar will cover real-world examples of supply chain weaponization, highlighting risks from dependence on foreign suppliers, especially those threatening U.S. security. | |
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Leading AI Government Contractors in 2025 | On March 20, join influential execs from top GovCon companies for a full day of networking, ideation and collaboration about the latest advancements in AI and how they can enable government and military missions. | |
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