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. Our featured items begin the Transportation Security Administration's (TSA) request for information to enhance the efficiency and overall effectiveness of on-person screening at airport security checkpoints. The RFI seeks to explore existing and emerging technologies that could make the process quicker and less burdensome for travelers, including the use of synthetic data generation and/or automated data annotation tools.
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Department of Homeland Security, Transportation Security Administration (TSA), Capabilities Management and Innovation Division (CM&I) — Request for Information: On-Person Screening and Identity Management Capabilities - TSA has statutory and administrative authority to screen aviation passengers before boarding an aircraft, including identity verification procedures. Under the purview of this authority, TSA plans to explore, develop, and deploy solution to verify traveler identities. The goals of this solution are to further automate the identity verification process, to reduce physical contact between the TSA officer and passengers, and to reduce the level of staffing required to oversee identity screening operations, thus allowing TSA to re-allocate valuable resources to other pressing security tasks (e.g., baggage screening, alarm resolution).
In other data news, on April 17th, Nextgov published an article entitled Stopping Tax Fraud in Its Tracks: 4 Ways OSINT Enhances Investigations. In this story, Johnmichael O’Hare details federal and state tax agencies' use of open-source intelligence (OSINT) technology to aid in investigations and help mitigate tax fraud.
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“"For revenue authorities looking for a more efficient way of identifying resources and assisting with the collection of known tax deficiencies, leading to increased collection of revenue involving unfiled tax returns and other tax liabilities, OSINT tools represent an immediate opportunity to deploy innovative solutions to recognize, collect and resolve tax compliance cases."”
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Credit Check Subscription Services
Dept. of Energy
| NREL is seeking a Subcontractor with sufficient information to provide credit and payment history data in order to ensure NREL is offering credit to businesses appropriately. | |
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Real Estate Data
Federal Housing Finance Agency
| FHFA is seeking data that may be used to improve the existing and future house price indexing methodology, evaluating home price trends in different market segments, analyzing transactional issues related to home equity, and conducting research related to housing or mortgage finance. | |
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Commercial GEOINT Access Portal (CGAP) Request for Information
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
| The proposed solution features a contractor owned and operated web-based CI service, which includes product discovery, visualization, exploitation, and delivery capabilities. CGAP users include the DoD, IC, Federal/Civilian agencies, international partners, and state and local governments. | |
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National Drug Code (NDC) Level Information Data
Dept. of Health and Human Services
| CDER requires access to National Drug Code (NDC)-level data to accurately characterize each FDA-regulated product active or previously active in the U.S. marketplace, down to the level of the active ingredients, inactive ingredients, strength, dosage formulation, manufacturer, and packaging. | |
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RFI: OCC’s Geospatial Corporate Establishment Database Tool, Data Files Portal, and/or Data File Reporting Services
Dept. of the Treasury
| Questions must be submitted by Wednesday, April 26, 2023. | |
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Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program, Final RFP
NASA
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US Waterborne Foreign Transportation Data
Dept. of Defense
| Amended solicitation to clarify that the PWS was included in the solicitation. | |
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RFI for Artificial Intelligence for Technical Assistance and Information Technology Support
Dept. of Defense
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Online Insurance Industry Financial Data Subscription
Dept. of the Treasury
| S&P Global offers a single Web-based platform for real-time financial data, insurance sector analysis templates, granular asset-level data, regulatory data, and ad-hoc reporting, all with 24/7 support, as well as real-time access to SEC filings, statutory data, market share information, key analysis ratios, and comprehensive proprietary news. | |
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Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures Numbering Services
Dept. of the Treasury
| The Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service, on behalf of the Wholesale Securities Services (WSS) Division of Financing Operations, intends to make an award on a sole source basis to FactSet Research Systems Inc...for Committee on Uniform Security Identification Procedures (CUSIP) numbering services at a facility in Parkersburg, West Virginia. | |
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Glacier Resource Innovation Group
Dept. of the Interior
| The U.S. Geological Survey intends to make a non-competitive, firm fixed price Contract to Infomine USA.Inc.(legal USA name of Glacier Resource Innovation Group) Mining and Intelligence Companies and Properties Data to purchase a subscription of Information on mineral properties on a global scale. | |
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Big West Data Hub
Dept. of Transportation
| The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) intends to negotiate a single source purchase order with the Regents of the University of California to conduct exploratory research on engaging big data hubs. | |
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Commercial SmallSat Data Acquisition (CSDA) BPA Award to Capella Space Corp.
NASA
| NASA has awarded a sole source Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) to Capella Space Corporation of San Francisco, California, to provide High-resolution Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) (0.5 meter to 1.2 meters) Commercial Earth Observation Data products. | |
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Advana Partners with Digital University to Offer Innovative Data Literacy Education Program for the Department of Defense
Dept. of Defense
| Advana has joined forces with DU to offer an innovative data literacy education program. The initiative will guide learners through several phases of training, each building on the previous one, to help them develop a thorough understanding of data analysis, interpretation, and visualization techniques, culminating in the ability to effectively convey insights through storytelling with data. | |
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ESRI Streetmap Subscription
Dept. of Agriculture
| FPAC GEO seeks approval to procure the ESRI StreetMap Premium liscenses under a firm fixed price delivery order. | |
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Data Modernization Prepares Us for Future Health Crises, CDC Says | The Public Health Data Strategy is one element of a robust plan at CDC to create a modern data ecosystem for managing public health emergencies. | |
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DHS Announces Artificial Intelligence Task Force | The group will focus on combating the spread of fentanyl, helping victims of online child sexual exploitation, defending critical infrastructure and improving supply chains. | |
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Is that the IRS with your refund? No, it's a ChatGPT scam | Cyber security experts that are researching the burgeoning field of AI told Weekly Tax in interviews that chatbots threaten to advance the credibility, sophistication and success of tax scams in leaps and bounds, not only in phishing and malware scams that take the form of emails but also in calls where so-called “deep fakes” could imitate the voice of an IRS agent. | |
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Hyperautomation and AI: emerging tech trends for CIOs to watch for | Gartner has released its list of the top ten trends for CIOs to watch out for as the use of technology in the public sector continues its rapid evolution. According to the tech research consultancy, over the last two decades government has been moving into a “post-digital” era where digital administration has become so widespread that it is normalised, opening the door to whole new vistas. | |
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Seven reasons why the government should utilize AI | Through streamlining administrative tasks to optimizing decision-making processes, AI has the potential to make significant contributions to the way governments operate in terms of efficiency, accountability, and transparency. | |
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How data analytics can help predict passenger demand | The Prediction Engine can predict passenger demand based on a variety of factors, such as weather, holidays, and events. By using this data to optimise service delivery, transit agencies can ensure that public transport services are available when and where they are needed most. | |
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TransUnion Partners with Datavant to Provide Patient Journey Insights and Measurement Solutions for the Healthcare and Pharmaceutical Industries | The partnership will enable Datavant’s ecosystem of partners to connect to demographic data available in TruAudience®, TransUnion’s comprehensive suite of solutions. The integration will enable healthcare and pharmaceutical companies to improve customer outcomes across the full lifecycle of patient engagement, especially measurement of outreach effectiveness. | |
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How Informatics, ML, and AI Can Better Prepare the Healthcare Industry for the Next Global Pandemic | The pandemic underscored the opportunity and importance of the informatics discipline, as demonstrated by the widespread utilization of health informatics applications like telehealth, remote patient monitoring, patient engagement, AI-based drug discovery, precision medicine, and clinical decision support. To better respond to a similar or worse event in the future, countries must ensure that they are better prepared to deal with pandemics with a foundation in sound data collection, analysis, and more effective decision-making. | |
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Carahsoft Announces a Modern Identity Offering Powered by Okta and Socure to Fight Identity-Based Fraud in the Public Sector | Achieving accurate and inclusive digital identity verification is critical to accelerating constituent service delivery for vital programs. This is made possible through the combination of Socure’s fully automated, AI- and ML- enabled approach to digital identity verification and Okta’s identity and access management platform, including adaptive multi-factor authentication, best-in-class compliance and security features, and modern, frictionless cloud infrastructure. | |
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GLEIF and OpenCorporates expand Partnership to increase legal-entity transparency in global markets | The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) has announced that LEIs have been linked with corresponding records in OpenCorporates’ global database of legal-entity data, thanks to an expansion of a long-standing partnership between the two organizations. | |
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Login.gov Has a Long Road Ahead of It | The promise of Login.gov when it was launched was to have a single, secure signon for U.S. government sites. Since it launched to replace Connect.gov, however, Login.gov has not fulfilled all of its promise, with concerns about security being highlighted in a recent GSA inspector general office report. | |
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DOD’s EHR Approaches the ‘End of the Beginning’ | FEHRM and DHMS PEO provide the latest updates on the federal EHR rollout and discuss next steps, aimed to enhance the patient experience. | |
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NIST’s Secure Data-Sharing Platform Provides a Trusted Gateway to Clinical Data | Researchers at NIST Chris Compton, Joanna DeFranco, David Ferraiolo and Joshua Roberts during the HIMSS conference in Chicago highlight how the Secure Federated Data Sharing System is breaking down walls across institutions, clinics and other organizations to enable trusted access to the data powering tomorrow’s innovations. | |
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NAVSEA Data Science Summit (DSS) 2023 | It is crucial that we understand the implications of AI use and potential unintended consequences. NSWC Corona seeks interest from industry, academia, and state, local and federal entities capable of providing expertise relative to these topics. | |
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USSOCOM Innovation Foundry Event | The theme of IF13 is information operations, specifically actions to produce desired behavioral responses. The event seeks to explore the challenges of information advantage and informational power in the future, as it pertains to SOF operations and missions, as well as joint forces and partners. | |
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Master Data Management - IQVIA | Integrated master data about physicians, consumers, patients, inventory, and other insights to drive real-time decision making, is no longer a differentiator in healthcare; it's a core capability. Join industry experts from IQVIA, Vituity, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Dakota for a panel discussion to gain insights and perspectives on approaching MDM as part of their business-critical initiatives. | |
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