Income verification is part of the application process for nearly all health and human service benefits programs. When an applicant’s income cannot be verified electronically, eligible people and case workers are left to do the onerous and time-consuming work of manual verification. Our interest is in expanding the ways that people can automatically verify their income, and one method we are exploring is consent-based or consumer-permissioned methods.

This research topic will explore approaches to developing a new type of Multimodal Foundation Model (MFM) to ingest overhead and ground-level imagery, vector data, terrain data, and ground level images, then show adaptability to perform novel, previously unencountered tasks without being retrained.

The software must allow the OCC to import data collected from Banks. Imported data will include residential mortgage data from Home Mortgage Disclosure, small business and small farm loan data from the Community Reinvestment Act (CRA), small business reporting that may be required under Regulation B (Section 1071) and consumer loan data; deposits and branch office data (FDIC), community development loans, investments, and services; and assessment area geographic delineation data.

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is seeking Sales Tax Data, both State and Local, for the purpose of developing data that the Policy and Program Impact Lab needs to create general sales tax tables and to update the sales tax deduction calculator for IRS.gov.

Updated Statement of Work and response to questions.

Updated solicitation to address pre-proposal communication and compliance with proposal instructions.

Response to questions. Date offers due extended to January 3, 2024.

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The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) intends to use the procedures of FAR Part 13.501(a) to award a fixed-price purchase order on a sole source basis to Refinitiv US LLC for subscription to data on merger and or acquisition disclosures and rumors involving companies with securities traded in U.S. markets.

The National Park Service (NPS) WASO intends to award a firm fixed price contract to CoStar Real Estate for a subscription to real estate services.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) intends to issue a fixed-price modification on a single source basis to West Publishing Corporation for an Application Programming Interface (API) web solution that provides secure integration of data from CLEAR Investigation system into SEC internal applications.

The U. S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) located in Washington, D.C., Government National Mortgage Association (Ginnie Mae/GNMA), Office of Enterprise Risk (OER), requires a suite of comprehensive financial content covering credit ratings and reviews of the global banks, residential and commercial mortgaged-backed securities research, complex risk models and an electronic ratings delivery service of corporate and structured ratings.

Aalyria will integrate LeoLabs’ growing commercially owned orbital database into Spacetime, Aalyria’s software platform for orchestrating networks of ground stations, aircraft, satellites, ships, and urban meshes. LeoLabs will serve as a “source of truth” for Aalyria to model the locations of objects in LEO for mission planning and operations purposes.

The EGP is a vital resource that offers standardized geospatial information on wildfire activities. Using a human-centred design approach, the team will create a seamless, scalable solution, “EGP Next Gen.” This solution will empower the wildland fire community to swiftly make data-driven decisions in a mission-critical environment.

Palantir USG Inc., Palo Alto, California, was awarded an Other Transaction Authority modification (P00021) to contract W15QKN-20-9-P001 with a ceiling of $115,046,590 to extend the Army Vantage period of performance by 12 months. 

Trust, Responsibility at Core of DOD Approach to AI

The 2023 Data, Analytics and Artificial Intelligence Adoption Strategy, which was developed by the Chief Digital and AI Office, builds upon and supersedes the 2018 DOD AI Strategy and revised DOD Data Strategy, published in 2020, which have laid the groundwork for the department's approach to fielding AI-enabled capabilities.

NGA plans 'significant' awards for commercial data services

“The objective of this effort is to acquire products, data, and/or services produced from unclassified commercial GEOINT on unclassified networks, not to acquire a technology or capability to install and manage on classified networks,” the draft RFP stated. “NGA expects industry to leverage unclassified sources and analytical capabilities available in the commercial marketplace to produce these products, data, and/or services.”

Operationalize AI: DIA signs out artificial intelligence strategy, creating governance model

Menon said the strategy was signed out last week by DIA Director Gen. Scott Berrier, and one of the approaches outlined in the strategy calls for the creation of an AI community of interest, which will serve as a centralized governance model across the defense intelligence enterprise, he added. DIA is currently working to put the finishing touches on the model and more details are expected to be released publicly next year, he said.

NDAA directs officials to establish 'Intelligence Community Innovation Unit'

Similar to the Pentagon’s Defense Innovation Unit, the notional IC organization would be tasked with “identifying commercial emerging technologies and associated capabilities to address critical mission needs of elements of the intelligence community,” the bill states. The unit would provide intelligence agencies with technology expertise, while also working to transition promising prototype technologies into production. And lawmakers envision the unit as serving as a liaison between the intelligence community and the private sector, in particular small- and medium-sized businesses.

Congress looks to block US agencies from buying Americans' data

Lawmakers are primarily focused on trying to stop the FBI and spy agencies from using Section 702 of the surveillance law to search Americans’ data without a warrant in the databases of electronic communications collected from around the globe by the National Security Agency. But a bipartisan group is also aiming to shut down a back door not governed under any law: U.S. agencies buying vast quantities of data from commercial brokers that collect the information from mobile phones and apps as well as online searches, maps and other data from just about every American.

Post-Twitter, Government Social Media Remains Up in the Air

Early on Friday, April 21, at least 158,000 people saw a tweet from the Chicago Department of Transportation reporting the city would close a major thoroughfare, Lake Shore Drive, to all private vehicles as part of the mayor’s “decarbonization plan.” The post was fake, and Chicago’s communications team worked quickly to rectify the misinformation. But it was a telling moment in a year that saw major upheaval of the social media platforms that governments have come to rely on to spread everything from feel-good stories to critical emergency alerts.

Priming the workforce is key to future AI efforts, federal IT leaders say

During a panel discussion at ATARC’s CIO summit on Wednesday, seven officials who oversee their agencies’ IT operations and are working to modernize legacy systems said efforts to embrace emerging tools like AI are largely focused — at least for now — on educating employees about the benefits and possibilities of emerging technologies and automating rote tasks.

Q&A: The critical need to balance innovation and risk alongside working with generative AI

Corporations like Experian that specialize in big data and information technology were quick to not only institute internal policies for the responsible use of generative AI, but also establish many of the best practices that its clients should consider in using the tools. Looking back at the past year of generative AI’s global impact, Digital Journal asked Shri Santhanam, executive vice president and general manager of global analytics and AI for Experian, to share his insights on what every company should be considering regarding its use.

Dun & Bradstreet and IBM Collaborate to Bring Trustworthy Business Insights to Fuel Responsible Generative AI Solutions Powered by watsonx

Through this collaboration, Dun & Bradstreet and IBM aim to develop offerings for clients to use in their native workflows to drive generative AI adoption that can help achieve growth and efficiency across a variety of business functions. The offerings will leverage watsonx, IBM’s next-generation AI and data platform, and draw upon Dun & Bradstreet’s Data Cloud, containing more than half a billion private and public companies, market-leading Identity Resolution, including the D-U-N-S® Number and the company’s generative AI capabilities.

Big Data Startup Tamr Wins Financial Investment From GE Ventures

GE has hundreds of ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems and the company uses Tamr to unify data from more than 270 separate systems to provide an accurate picture of the company's spending. Tamr is processing 20 million transactions representing $60 billion in direct spending, according to the companies. Since its initial adoption of Tamr, GE has deployed Tamr's software across multiple GE business units to unify hundreds of data sources resulting – according to the two companies – in cost savings and business insights worth hundreds of millions of dollars.

FactSet launches AI chatbot to drive efficient workflows for junior bankers

With FactSet Mercury, users can access FactSet’s comprehensive financial fundamentals and pricing data, along with extensive bank and branch regulatory data through an integrated suite of generative AI (GenAI) tools surfaced in a single chat interface.