VOLUME 4. ISSUE 53.

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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 & Analytics companies that share our passion for serving the Public Sector. Our featured items begin with the CDC's request for information on the availability of interrelated, linked, and anonomized patient-level healthcare data to assist the CDC in its analysis on the spread of infectious diseases and other emerging public health concerns.

 

 

In other data news, on December 6th, FCW published an article entitled DHS to issue identity tech “challenge” for industry. In this story, Natalie Alms describes how the Department of Homeland Security’s Science and Technology Directorate will be holding a series of "tech challenges" for industry partners to test and demonstrate their various identity verification tools over the next year. TSA, HSI and NIST will be leading this effort which is entitled the “Remote Identity Validation Technology Demonstration Challenge.”

 

  • A major goal: to get a performance baseline. Tech used to deliver benefits remotely proliferated during the pandemic as the public health crisis pushed services online, but there are still unknowns. 'While these technologies provide transformative improvement in user convenience, there are a wide range of questions about the performance and fairness of the technologies, as well as concerns that bad actors could exploit weaknesses in the new process to commit fraud at scale,' said Arun Vemury, lead of S&T’s Biometric and Identity Technology Center, in a statement.”

 

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Access to Healthcare Practitioner’s Prescribing Data

Dept. of Health and Human Services

The Contractor shall provide FDA personnel with access to currently existing, commercially available data resource on health care practitioner prescribing practices including but not limited to patient demographics, and indications for treatment in the outpatient setting.

Business analytics and market intelligence subscription services

Dept. of the Treasury

The Treasury may have an upcoming opportunity for online subscription services to both a platform that provides business analytics and a database that provides market intelligence on private companies and investor activities for the Treasury’s Departmental Offices.

Tanker Data

Dept. of Energy

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), Office of Energy Analysis (OEA), International Energy Analysis Team (IEA) has the requirement to procure global oil inventories data and crude oil, petroleum products, and liquefied natural gas tanker data. These data should provide insight into commodities movements and oil inventories outside of the United States and fill a current gap in data that will support and inform internal analyses and other analytic products.

Remote Identity Validation Technology Demonstration

Dept. of Homeland Security

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T), in partnership with the Transportation Security Administration (TSA), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST),  Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) Forensic Laboratory, and other federal agencies, will host a series of test events to challenge industry to deliver secure, accurate, and easy-to-use remote identity validation technologies to combat identity fraud when users apply for government services, open bank accounts, or verify social media accounts.  

Sales Data Tax Support

Dept. of the Treasury

Notice that responses to questions will be posted by Dec. 14, 2022 at 12:00 PM EST.

Global Trade Data - Database

International Trade Commission

Response to questions.

Request for Information – Threat Intelligence Enterprise Services (TIES) GSA on behalf of Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Secuirty Agency (CISA)/Cybersecurity Division (CSD)/Capacity Building (CB)

General Services Administration

Updated RFI document and response to questions issued. Response date updated to December 16, 2022.

Social Media Tracking & Analysis for EHP

Dept. of Health and Human Services

Response to questions.

Notification of the SEC’s intent to award a sole source purchase order for subscription to international public records

Securities and Exchange Commission

The SEC requires subscription to comprehensive international public records coverage with capability to allow users to search for specific entities and individuals. The SEC requires that the subscription provide a form of data visualization to show the relationships between searched entities and individuals with the ability for users to customize searches to display data for multiple searched individuals and entities at one time.

Commercial Real Estate Debt Funds Data

Federal Housing Finance Agency

As part of the ongoing monitoring of commercial real estate debt funds activity, OMAP needs a data source on commercial real estate debt funds held-in-portfolio properties and associated financing. The specific interest is on multifamily sector of the debt fund investment market.

Annual Renewal of IDEA - Data Analysis Software

Dept. of the Treasury

The IDEA software is mission critical and is used by the CFO staffs who work on the ongoing GAO financial statement audit. It is used to format data for submission to GAO. This software is mandated by GAO and is critical to the continued success of the IRS financial statement audit.

Redacted J&A for Global Subscription

Dept. of Defense

Global Subscription to access detailed bulk storage market analysis information on TankTerminals.com. The Global Subscription will allow DLA energy BPM to access petroleum storage terminal information worldwide.

UK Taps Sayari for Government-wide Data Analytics Contract

His Majesty's Treasury (UK)

The partnership enables departments like the National Crime Agency (NCA), Ministry of Defence (MOD), HM Revenue & Customs, Serious Fraud Office, HM Treasury and other agencies to accelerate deployment of Sayari’s commercial risk intelligence platform.

Home Office unveils £55m data deal to ‘transform casework’ and support controversial watchlist

Home Office (UK)

The Home Office has released details of a three-year £50m-plus deal to support the transformation of its use of data and analytics in its immigration operations – including the ongoing operation of its controversial watchlist.

Aetion Furthers Collaboration with FDA on Real-World Data

Dept. of Health and Human Services

The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated a need for robust RWD collection and analysis procedures to support expedited decision-making and deployment of medical countermeasures. Aetion's work on data standardization will support FDA both in this context and, by aiming to provide generalizable learnings to advance regulatory science, outside the pandemic setting as well.

US Army intel office plots AI development with Project Linchpin

Through the project, officials intend to create the “infrastructure and environment” needed to deliver AI capabilities for use across the intertwined intelligence, cyber and electronic warfare spaces. The plan, documents show, is to soothe troubles often associated with AI optimization and distribution, such as incorporation of new data and extensive training regimens.

The Defense Department’s New Data King Is Skeptical of AI ‘Pixie Dust’

Artificial intelligence may decide who wins and loses future wars but not everything that calls itself “artificial intelligence” promises real intelligence, says Craig Martell, the Pentagon’s Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer, in an interview as part of the Defense One Outlook series. More importantly, says Martell, many of the agencies, offices, and organizations within DoD that are asking for artificial intelligence really just need to understand their own data. If they can do that, he says, they’ll be able to create their own AI tools that better fit their needs. 

TSA Wants to Automate ID Verification at Checkpoint Security

The Transportation Security Administration, or TSA, is adding digital IDs to a pilot program for testing facial recognition technology at airports across the country as part of its evaluation of the effectiveness of this technology as the agency works to further digitize and automate passenger identity verification at checkpoint security.

Fake parts: A Pentagon supply chain problem hiding in plain sight

“These supply chains are not static,” Hunter said. “It’s a challenge, and it’s a constantly moving target. So it does require ' to make sure that our supply chains are resilient, they are secure, and that we know where stuff is coming from and whether they’re compliant.”

Interagency group attacks improper payments from the front end

Since 2003 when the government began tracking and reporting improper payments, agencies estimate more than $2.2 trillion has gone out the door improperly. That amounts to about $7,000 per citizen over the last 20 years. A significant factor in the increasing amount of improper payments is the struggle to verify and authenticate the recipient’s identity.

Improved Export Controls Enforcement Technology Needed for U.S. National Security

Modern, data-driven digital technologies utilizing AI and machine learning can and should play an integral role in enhancing BIS export control enforcement capabilities. Relatively modest investments could lead to 5 to 10 times greater analyst productivity.

White House AI ‘Bill of Rights’ may risk national security

The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy has proposed guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence in its Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights. While the blueprint emphasizes basic rights and principles of our democracy and catalogs examples of harm AI can cause, it fails to grapple with how to put those into practice without hobbling one of the most vibrant parts of the U.S. high-tech economy — its innovation ecosystem.

Darknet Markets Generate Millions in Revenue Selling Stolen Personal Data, Supply Chain Study Finds

Our research details a thriving underground economy and illicit supply chain enabled by darknet markets. As long as data is routinely stolen, there are likely to be marketplaces for the stolen information.

E2open’s 22.4 Technology Update Deepens Network Coverage Across All Supply Chain Ecosystems to Minimize Disruption Risks

 With e2open’s platform, clients can make aligned decisions that consider all aspects of the end-to-end supply chain and efficiently orchestrate coordinated workflows across all parties required to sustainably make, move, and sell goods and services.

Truthset's Collective Launches Out Of Beta To Combat Defective Data

Most marketing data sets, whether we’re talking about online behavioral data, prepackaged segments in a DSP or even offline CRM data, are riddled with inaccuracies, and there hasn’t been a consistent mechanism for verifying what’s good and what needs to get tossed, said Scott McKinley, CEO and founder of Truthset.

data.ai Launches App Market Intelligence on Snowflake Marketplace, Helping Companies Unlock Unique Consumer and Market Insights

This partnership with Snowflake, the Data Cloud company, will bring data.ai’s robust digital and mobile data offering to joint customers via Snowflake Marketplace in a frictionless and scalable manner, opening up new possibilities.

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