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 a VA solicitation seeking a web-based investigative database for detecting fraud in veterans' benefits and healthcare. The five-year contract supports 20 users with real-time public records access, financial data, and analytics tools to identify fraud risks.
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Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Business Oversight (OBO), Program Integrity Office (PIO) — PIO Data Investigative Subscription - The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA), Office of Business Oversight (OBO), Program Integrity Office (PIO) has a requirement for the use of an existing, real-time or near real-time, searchable, web-based database of public and financial information and healthcare data to aid PIO staff in identifying potential fraud perpetrators against Veterans and the Department of Veterans Affairs. The service will provide data to assist in locating people and businesses, determining relationships, both financial and personal, and verifying credentials.
In other data news, on February 1st, Signal Magazine published an article entitled Cross-Cloud Collaboration Paves the Way for Data Transparency: OPM’s Groundbreaking Analytics Solution. In this story, Jim Craft discusses the Office of Personnel Management's groundbreaking cross-cloud collaboration solution that enables seamless data sharing and authentication across federal agencies. By implementing advanced identity management and zero-trust security principles, OPM has created a transformative analytics platform that enhances workforce data transparency and operational efficiency.
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“Integrating these technologies across federal agencies exponentially increases transparency and data accessibility. By establishing standardized authentication systems and applying human-centered design to data presentation, agencies enjoy seamless access to critical workforce data, enabling decision-makers to make more informed, timely and strategic choices.”
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SAF/PA Software Social Media Analysis Tool
Dept. of Defense
| This support shall include monitoring more than thousands of external media (print, web, social media, and broadcast) outlets, both US and international, and to provide analysis products and a morning news report to senior leaders. Support will also include the ability to manage and monitor specific government social media sites and/or accounts. | |
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Defense Logistics Agency Social Media Search
Dept. of Defense
| The online open source and social media search subscription using online software will need to collect, maintain, and provide access to publicly available social media data and other records including analysis of those records, visualization tools, automated intelligence (AI) and machine learning integration, group identification, tagging, and deep/dark web analysis, which will enhance investigative capabilities. | |
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Requests for Information (RFI) For Automated Data Analysis
Dept. of Defense
| The Air Force Research Laboratory, Information Directorate (AFRL/RI) is seeking information regarding capabilities to triage, curate, and analyze data with minimal human interaction. Potential capabilities should develop associations, relationships, and correlations across vast datasets and timeframes with heterogeneous data sources spanning multiple security levels. A data presentation layer is also required which results in machine-readable contextual data upon which modeling and advanced analytics can be performed. | |
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Web-Accessed Platform
Dept. of Defense
| Request For Information (RFI) ONLY for subscriptions, web-accessed platform that provides business intelligence, market intelligence data. | |
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EVERGLADES
Dept. of Defense
| Additional information posted on the classified Intelligence Community Acquisition Research Center (ARC) website. | |
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Enterprise Test Data Management
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
| Date offers due extended to February 17, 2025. | |
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Notification of the SEC's Intent to Award a Sole Source Purchase Order to The Ives Group, Inc.
Securities and Exchange Commission
| The SEC requires access to a web-based research platform that provides access to a comprehensive database of current and historical auditor and compliance information. The information shall be in a database format, categorized using a taxonomy, for all U.S. public companies that are SEC registrants, broker-dealers, and registered investment advisers. In addition to the web-based research platform, the SEC requires a data feed of the above-mentioned data points for import into SEC systems. | |
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Notice of Intent to Sole Source -Corporate Registry Data Web Access, Moody's Analytics, Inc
Dept. of the Treasury
| The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) requires standardized, consistent electronic international data research services to all employees. The objective of this Performance Work Statement (PWS) is to obtain electronic international business data services, especially for APAC and European regions of the World, that provide a powerful tax administration tool for IRS. | |
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N66001-22-C-0063 / Notice of Intent to Exercise Option Year 3
Dept. of Defense
| This contract provides support for UNACORN Data Engineering pipeline. The contractor uses best practices and methods from commercial industry to perform the extraction, processing, analysis, transformation and feature enhancement of the data sets for use by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) models and algorithms. The contractor develops real-time data pipeline monitoring and operations dashboards in order to determine Data Quality and Data Drift and take corrective actions on the data sets. | |
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Notice of Intent to Sole Source - PitchBook Data Inc.
Dept. of Defense
| The United States Department of Defense (DoD), Washington Headquarters Services, Acquisition Services (WHS/AD), on behalf of the Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) intends to issue a sole source award to PitchBook Data, Inc...to procure PitchBook Platform Subscription which is software that delivers data, research and technology covering the private capital markets, including venture capital, private equity and mergers and acquisitions (M&A) transactions. | |
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ERAI Software Service Renewal
Social Security Administration
| ERAI software service renewal...to conduct Supply Chain Risk Analysis (SCRA) on major agency procurements. This solution will provide the SSA with focused and predictive insights to help certify, monitor and analyze IT suppliers, which will ultimately mitigate risk to the agency. | |
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USDA-ERS Comprehensive Historical Data for Agricultural Products
Dept. of Agriculture
| Comprehensive historical data for agricultural products listed on the Dalian Commodity Exchange and Zhengzhou Commodity Exchange. | |
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BlackSky wins new, more than $100 million contract from strategic international defense sector customer for Gen-3 real-time, space-based monitoring capabilities
International Defense Agency
| The combined capability of BlackSky’s innovative high-cadence Gen-2 constellation, ground communications segment and Spectra® tasking and analytics platform has reshaped industry expectations for low-latency, space-based monitoring. BlackSky’s software-first, subscription-based approach gives customers the ability to easily incorporate Gen-3 capabilities into their daily intelligence operations. | |
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BigBear.ai Awarded Prime IDIQ Contract for U.S. Department of Navy's SeaPort Next Generation (NxG)
Dept. of Defense
| SeaPort NxG serves as the premier contracting platform for the U.S. Navy, streamlining the procurement process for technical, engineering, and professional services. This multiple-award prime IDIQ contract enables BigBear.ai to provide innovative technologies and mission-critical support to the U.S. Navy and other federal agencies. | |
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Trump mandates prompt spy agency to take down website, social media | The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s site, including all web pages with press releases, open-source data and federal maps, and staff and leadership information remains inaccessible on Friday afternoon. DefenseScoop first noticed the website was not working on Thursday — and on Friday morning online tools that routinely check server statuses showed that systems for NGA.mil were still not responding. | |
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Association of Public Data Users Statement on Public Data | As many of you are aware, on January 31, 2025, the administration began removing crucial data from public, federal government websites, including the Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance System–information that is used to address critical issues like teen suicide–and content related to sexual orientation and gender identity. We are closely monitoring these changes and their impact on public data access. Removing access to taxpayer funded public data from the public domain is unethical and contrary to the principle that these data are for the public and public good. It also sets a dangerous precedent that any administration could withhold public data for any reason. | |
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CFPB Warns Consumers of Rising Number of Credit Reporting Firms | The CFPB has published its annual list of companies that collect and sell consumer data. The list, the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) said Thursday (Jan. 30), is designed to let consumers request their consumer reporting data, dispute inaccuracies and block access to their credit reporting data via security freezes. In addition, the list lets consumers know about the kinds of personal financial information that is collected for credit and other consumer reports. | |
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The U.S. Government silently sabotaged anonymous public access to billions of dollars of military AI contracts | Two representatives of the Federal Procurement Data System program of the General Services Administration of the U.S. Government have stated that anonymous public access to a broad category of procurement records has been purposefully and silently shut down. While the modern website USASpending.gov provides user-friendly summaries of traditional contracting through the voluminous Federal Acquisition Regulation (FAR), the website purposefully excludes tens of billions of dollars in military and artificial intelligence contracting through a work-around mechanism known as an Other Transaction Agreement (OTA). | |
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How to build a National Data Library | One of the centrepieces of the government’s AI Opportunities Action Plan is the creation of a National Data Library (NDL), writes Jamie Hutton, CTO of Quantexa. It plans to identify five high-impact public datasets and provide a centralised and secure system for accessing them. The NDL will be available to public organisations, private companies and academic researchers. | |
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OpenAI Launches ChatGPT Gov for US Government Agencies | The ChatGPT Gov release comes amid rising AI competition. Chinese startup DeepSeek this week launched its flagship model, DeepSeek-R1, to a positive response among users, but crashing some U.S. technology stocks. Announcing ChatGPT Gov in a blog post, OpenAI said it enables agencies to access OpenAI's advanced AI models, hosted either on their own Azure cloud or Azure Government cloud. | |
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Elon Musk Is Running the Twitter Playbook on the Federal Government | Elon Musk is only one week into his role in President Donald Trump's new administration, but the US federal government is already rolling out the Twitter playbook to manage its spending and personnel. Just like Musk did when he took over the social media platform, Trump's team is attempting to drastically reduce the number of government staffers and ensure those who remain are loyal to the president's agenda. | |
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DeepSeek rollout prompts White House response to 'ensure AI dominance' | The aftermath of China’s bombshell reveal of a new machine-learning platform caught the attention of the highest levels of the U.S. government. Speaking to reporters on Tuesday, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said the Trump administration took notice of the news out of China and the reported advance in AI. "This is a wake-up call to the American AI industry," Leavitt was quoted as saying. The press secretary would go on to claim that the administration would “ensure AI dominance,” though no formal plans or strategic details were announced. | |
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Wharton dean, LinkedIn founder discuss ‘Embracing AI with Purpose’ at Tarnopol lecture series | Hoffman, who is featured in Wharton’s AI Leadership Program, introduced the concept behind his book “Superagency: What Could Possibly Go Right with Our AI Future,” which explores AI as a collective force that can amplify the potential of humans. Drawing comparisons to past technological shifts like the printing press and automobiles, Hoffman noted that current fears about AI’s impact mirror those of earlier innovations. | |
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Generative AI and human-robot interaction: Implications and future agenda for business, society and ethics | This paper examines the complex relationship between humans and AI models in social and corporate contexts from an anthropomorphic perspective. We reviewed HRI literature, focusing on generative models like ChatGPT. The scientometric study predicts that generative AIs like ChatGPT will grow in popularity alongside human rational empathy, the tendency for personification, advanced linguistic capabilities, and the ability to mimic human-like behavior. | |
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AI Trends for 2025 - Dirty Data Damaging Deals – Data Issues in AI M&A | 2024 saw strong interest in M&A involving companies that use or develop artificial intelligence (“AI”) offerings. The rise of AI has brought new issues for companies and dealmakers. In particular, 2024 saw regulators focusing further on the collection and use of data in AI products, applying existing rules and developing new approaches. | |
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Industry coalition presses DOGE to act on digital identity | An industry coalition is urging the Trump administration’s “Department of Government Efficiency” to jumpstart the widespread adoption of mobile drivers licenses and other digital identity solutions to help combat online fraud and cyber crime. In a Jan. 28 letter to the newly renamed United States DOGE Service, the Better Identity Coalition applauded an initial focus for the DOGE commission on rooting out fraud and improper payments in government benefits programs. | |
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2025 Defense Software & Data Summit | Mark your calendar for the premier event dedicated to transforming defense acquisition into a strategic advantage for the United States. Govini’s annual Defense Software & Data Summit unites leaders from government, industry, and academia to tackle the most pressing issues in National Security. | |
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