VOLUME 4. ISSUE 32.

Welcome to Carpe Datum’s weekly newsletter, the Federal Data Prospector, your source of insight into the federal government's data and analytic initiatives. Our featured item this week lives up to the newsletter's theme -- lots of analytics and even more data! The U.S. Army is soliciting support from industry for an "aggregated data system" which enables the service to conduct situational awareness and analytics in and around their base installations. The statement of work seeks to leverage open-source data to inform and alert force protection services on U.S. military installations worldwide. The requirements include the need for a diverse set of publicly available data that supports not only the necessary analytics, but also the reporting activities needed for fusing, analyzing, and visualizing spatio-temporal trends.

Department of Defense, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Geospatial Temporal Incident Data - "The U.S. Army requires data for situational awareness and to support planning processes. This request for proposals seeks publicly available data that presents issues of concern in the vicinity of Army installations for reporting purposes as well as for fusing, analyzing, and visualizing spatio-temporal trends. The Contractor shall provide a solution that is capable of producing datasets of any piece of information that would merit the attention of installation personnel such as the directorate of emergency services (DES), Garrison Commander, staff and personnel, event organizers, tenant units, or families and other persons on the installation."

In other data news, on July 15th, Homeland Security Today published an article entitled GAO Says ‘Substantial Improvements’ Needed for CDC’s Air Passenger Contact Tracing. In this story, Kylie Bielby discusses GAO's recommendation that the CDC deploy a new data system to more effectively facilitate contact tracing and conduct disease surveillance for air passengers.

"GAO has also said that the CDC system also does not contain the necessary data fields to assess the quality of air passenger information CDC receives, such as a field to determine the timeliness of airlines’ responses to CDC’s request. GAO has determined therefore that CDC is 'not positioned to efficiently analyze and disseminate data to inform public health policies and respond to disease threats'. The watchdog also wants CDC to assess additional opportunities to improve the quality of air passenger information and consider deploying a new data system that would allow it to more effectively facilitate contact tracing for air passengers and conduct disease surveillance for air travel."

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Corporate Registration Data - RFQ

Government Accountability Office

The Government Accountability Office (GAO) requires a comprehensive data service on U.S. registered corporations to support GAO in completing congressionally requested analyses on Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security Act and other reviews.

Application for Data Management and Informatics Requirements (ADMIR)

Dept. of Transportation

The main objective of the development of ADMIR is to allow multiple disciplines within the DOT to share data to make the transportation system safer, more equitable, more efficient, and more sustainable.

USPS Employment Verification Services

U.S. Postal Service

The United States Postal Service is interested in understanding industry services that support national, enterprise solution(s) for processing third-party requests for employment verification and/or providing state agencies with information pertinent to unemployment claims for former Postal Service personnel.

Technical Concept

Dept. of Defense

The government is seeking to identify qualified, experienced, and interested potential businesses capable of providing the following technologies… Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning… Data Fabric… Data Science Strategies in support of Artificial Intelligence (AI)

Data Analytics - R/PPR

Dept. of State

Response to phase one questions, with updates to Instructions to Offerors, Evaluation Procedures, and Past Performance Questionaires. Response date extended to August 1, 2022.

Walk-through Rendering from Images Varying Altitudes

Dept. of the Interior

Response to questions.

Global Satellite and Terrestrial Automatic Identification System (AIS) Data

Dept. of Defense

Changed from a small business set-aside to full-and-open competition. Response date extended to July 21, 2022.

DoD Chief Information Officer Mission Support Services II

Dept. of Defense

Response to questions.

Credit Reporting Services

Dept. of Agriculture

The credit bureau services required under this contract will assist RD in determining borrower eligibility for SFH Direct Programs under the authority of USDA Rural Development(RD).

Intent to Sole Source: Blocktrace, LLC Subscription Services for Online Cryptocurrency Blockchain Intelligence Data

Dept. of the Treasury

This tool and subsequent support would enable OIA-CID to provide mission-critical research to Treasury Leadership that would inform a variety of actions, help answer time-sensitive questions, and identify emerging items or issues of interest regarding crypto data.

eHealth Exchange Annual Subscription

Dept. of Health and Human Services

This interface allows internal and external providers to query patient records for medical care. Healthcare interoperability was mandated for IHS by Congress as a primer to money’s for the Electronic Health Record (HER) Modernization.

Planet Lab Imagery Satellite Platform

Dept. of Defense

The Mission and Installation Contracting Command Installation Contracting Office, West Point, NY (MICC-West Point) is issuing this SYNOPSIS for the renewal of a 12-month Education and Research Bundle subscription for Planet satellite data at West Point, NY.

BlackSky wins IARPA contract

On July 14, Herndon, VA-based BlackSky Technology Inc. announced that it has received a $4.4 million award from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) to support the second phase of the multi-year Space-based Machine Automated Recognition Technique (SMART) Program.

GeoOptics, PlanetIQ and Spire to supply NOAA with space weather data

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration awarded contracts to GeoOptics, PlanetIQ and Spire Global to provide space weather data as part of a pilot program to test the value of the commercial observations.

Lori Wade – Leading the IC's Data Driven Future

ODNI’s Office of Strategic Communications sat down with the IC Chief Data Officer Lori Wade to discuss her priorities in the position, her perspective, and where she will take the community.

Understanding DOD’s ‘data decrees’: How the network can support a data-centric organization

By creating trust workflows at the tactical edge, ensuring infrastructure can support data sharing at scale and accelerating the velocity of data analytics, DOD can ensure information is in the hands of military strategists and warfighters in real time.

How location and health data can be misused and what the US government is doing to protect users

Ever since the US Supreme Court overturned federal abortion protections, privacy advocates have raised concerns over how data collected by period tracking apps and other online platforms can be misused and weaponised against those seeking abortions in states where it is allowed. This has prompted the US federal government to increase the protection of sensitive health data.

Can Machine Learning Improve Tax Enforcement Without Human Teachers?

Buried in its tax compliance plan is a pledge that a portion of the additional money would be invested in developing machine learning capabilities—a set of statistical tools that can detect complex relationships in Big Data. The goal: To leverage existing information to better identify tax returns for compliance review.

White House wants agencies to increase, improve collection of LGBTQ data

In line with his administration’s broader diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility goals President Joe Biden is directing agencies to see where they can expand collection of LGBTQ data.

Digital ID bill sees action in the House and Senate

The legislation pushes the federal government to use existing authority to help Amerians "prove who they are online," by providing opt-in ID validation services that "augment private sector digital identity and authentication solutions."

State launches center of excellence for human services analytics

Maryland is standing up a center of excellence dedicated to leveraging data from the state’s health and human services agencies to improve efficiency, services delivery and outcomes for residents.

Data Saves Lives: Roundtable event on public health

Imperial researchers brought together national and local government, and NHS organisations, to discuss patient data and improving public health.

Innovaccer Expands into Public Sector to Facilitate More Equitable and Coordinated Care

The Innovaccer Health Cloud’s Data Activation Platform (DAP) collects, cleans, and connects data, making it available and shareable between systems to accelerate digital transformation.

Michelin Buys RoadBotics in Drive for More Road Data

A deal that brings together one of the world’s oldest tire companies with a young government technology firm shows the rising power of so-called big data and the attraction of smarter mobility services for agencies tasked with road maintenance.

HealthVerity locks down $100M to grow real-world data management platform

A massive database of real-world evidence—encompassing hundreds of millions of electronic records, lab test results, medical claims and other health information from patients across the U.S.—is about to get even bigger.

The promise of machine learning democratization

Machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI) were once concepts relegated to only the most optimistic observers, much like self-driving electric vehicles and smartphones once were. But if it isn’t obvious, the times have changed. Today, machine learning and AI—along with the immensely powerful data collection and analytics tools that power those processes—are a mainstay of modern life.

The Future is Now: Air Force Digital Engineering & Transformation Office

The Air Force has a bold vision for a not so distant future. A complete transformation into a digitally empowered and equipped force with an agile workforce, state-of-the-art technologies, and intuitive processes driving model-based enterprise decision-making and automation.

USDA Rural Development Small Business Virtual Outreach FY22

This event presents opportunity for Small Businesses to learn about the mission and unique requirements of USDA/RD, by bringing various Acquisition and Program/technical managers together for access with the Small Business Community.

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