Luno A will transform NGA’s approach for geospatial information and knowledge, expand access to data and services for the NSG, accelerate Analysis Workflow Modernization objectives and integrate data and services into enterprise capabilities. This approach will deliver data that enables NGA and NSG analysts to add context to analytic assessments, and have unparalleled insight into and data to quantify worldwide economic and environmental activity and military capabilities. 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 U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires data in a structured format on merger and or acquisition disclosures and rumors involving companies with securities traded in U.S. markets. The data is needed for integration with other data sources in an internal SEC database.

OPEN performers will develop an end-to-end commodity structural price prediction and supply and demand forecasting system. Insights into structural commodity price construction, technological advances in time series forecasting and foundation artificial intelligence (AI) models, and a renewed understanding of the utility of alternative data in economic analysis, could help to achieve this objective.

This survey requests information for the creation of a new SIN that addresses Credential Service Provider (CSP) offerings under GSA's Multiple Award Schedule (MAS) as detailed within the SIN's description. There is a specific need for ID proofing services that comply with NIST SP 800-63 requirements. Responding to this survey will assist the government in developing the most appropriate SIN structure.

Revision #4 of the Tradedwind Solutions Marketplace Open Call.

Technology requirements updated to add information to Focus Area B1 - Nomination of High Value Targets.

Research topics published.

Revision to Broad Agency Announcement requirements and response date extended to February 19, 2024.

The Loan Connector Syndicated Loan Information Database is a product that allows OCC's analysts to electronically access information for syndicated commercial and industrial loans on a national basis and scale.  The information includes pricings, covenants, borrower and lender statistics, loan purposes, loan amounts, country/region information, credit ratings, maturity information, agent and lead bank statistics, and borrowers’ SIC or NAICS codes.

The subscription will assist CPO in evaluating the commercial viability of potential applications that can provide data and analyze the revenue, capacity, and utilization of semiconductor fabricators and the Chinese semiconductor markets. CPO requires this information to properly review and evaluate the commercial viability of applications submitted in response to the CHIPS notice of funding opportunity; without this data CPO would not be able to meet its missions and obligations under the CHIPS Act.

To provide authentication services, Login.gov utilizes identity proofing products and services. The scope of this acquisition includes unsupervised remote identity proofing to be used on the Login.gov platform, including: document capture, authentication and validation, identity resolution and fraud tooling.

The Contractor shall provide, in accordance with issued Task Orders (TOs), the Department of State (DOS), Office of the US Global AIDS Coordinator and Global Health Diplomacy (S/GAC) and the Foreign Assistance (F) Bureau quality engineering, systems support, hosting, data collection, analysis, and operational and administrative management support services. 

The first agreement is a new multiple-award blanket purchase agreement (BPA) to collect, curate, and enhance access to critical biomedical and public health data. ICF's efforts will improve data delivery to health researchers, professionals and the public so vital health decisions can quickly be made. 

Awash in data, FAA seeks better insights, impacts, more innovation

The FAA’s clearinghouse site for publicly available data is the home for much of this information. And there are 3,600 data sets on Data.gov. And this doesn’t account for all the internal data the FAA collects and shares with its employees. This is why the FAA must apply new and emerging technologies to understand and make its data more valuable.

Intuit and Others Should Use AI to Complement IRS Direct File

Finding a way to operate symbiotically with the government program is the obvious path forward. For-profit tax prep software can do this by using artificial intelligence and machine learning to automate mundane tasks, such as aggregation of income records for filers that aren’t relying on employer withholding, as well as automated error-checking, and tailored guidance based on individual circumstances.

Getting to MARS: Defense Intelligence Agency AI-assisted database to begin ops in spring

MARS is replacing the 1980s-era database, called the Military Intelligence Integrated Database, used by DIA for its primary mission of providing foundational military intelligence to warfighters and national security decision-makers.

NOAA leverages AI for weather forecast translation

“This language translation project will improve our service equity to traditionally underserved and vulnerable populations that have limited English proficiency,” said Ken Graham, director of NOAA’s National Weather Service, in a news release. “By providing weather forecasts and warnings in multiple languages, NWS will improve community and individual readiness and resilience as climate change drives more extreme weather events.”

Agencies get marching orders as White House issues AI-safety directive

The order lays out some basic safety rules to prevent AI-enabled consumer fraud, requires red-team testing of AI software for safety, and issues guidance on privacy protections. The White House will also pursue new multilateral agreements on AI safety with partner nations and accelerate AI adoption within the government, according to a fact sheet provided to reporters. 

House Dems seek guardrails for law enforcement’s use of facial recognition

The Facial Recognition Act would limit and, in some cases, prohibit law enforcement agencies at the federal, state and local levels from using the surveillance tools, while also requiring more transparency when it comes to the deployment and use of the technology. The bill would scale back officials’ use of the technology “to situations when a warrant is obtained that shows probable cause that an individual committed a serious violent felony,” according to a summary of the legislation.

The Tech at ‘Cop Con’: Cigarette Carton Trackers, VR for School Shootings, and ‘Peacekeeper Batons’

Predictably, AI and algorithmic products dominated the sometimes frenzied expo floor — where attendees could go from testing the latest model of Taser, the Taser 10, to participating in a virtual reality simulation where they play an officer encountering a school shooter or patrolling an encampment of unhoused people.

SAIC Announces New Data and AI Features To Improve Government Mission Outcomes

The innovative Tenjin offerings enable organizations to handle and store their complex sensitive data securely from the enterprise to the edge, as well as operationalize Artificial Intelligence (AI) while the additional Koverse features improve and accelerate the capacity for defense and civilian customers to unlock the value of their data.

Accenture Federal Exec Talks Synergies, GenAI Strength From Two-Year-Old Novetta Acquisition

“We have always taken a data-centric approach, and AI is really a next generation of that,” he said. “And then GenAI is in the next generation after that. So it’s pretty much considered in everything we do…"

AI updates of the week: Elon Musk’s xAI is coming, LinkedIn and Microsoft’s AI assistants

The company website says the goal of its AI is to understand the essence of the universe. Following the unveiling of the company, Musk said the strategy was to make AI as curious as possible instead of morality being programmed into the AI.

Bloomberg Collaborates with Google Cloud to Accelerate Innovation in Data Management and Analytics

With access to Bloomberg's extensive experience managing, modeling, and delivering vast quantities of complex content, mutual customers can now receive their Bloomberg Data License (DL) data fully modeled and combined directly in BigQuery. This allows organizations to use Google Cloud's advanced analytics capabilities to quickly and efficiently extract more value from critical business information with minimal data wrangling.

CDAO Procurement Forum 2023

The CDAO Procurement Forum will provide an opportunity for Business Development and Program Management executives better to understand CDAO’s ambition and procurement forecast for 2024. The Forum’s core objective is to expand and strengthen CDAO’s collaborative network with established and non-traditional partners in the continually evolving field of Artificial Intelligence.