VOLUME 5. ISSUE 32.

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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 and analytics companies that share our passion for serving the public sector. Our featured items begin with FEMA's Sources Sought Notice for a data access, management, and exchange solution comprising a broad range of services luding information governance, data migration, integration, and visualization and reporting.

 

 

In other data news, on July 31st, Breaking Defense published an article entitled AI-enabled social media tool ‘promising’ new tech for Army: Officials. In this story, Jaspreet Gill describes the testing of an AI-enabled social media tool, Data Robot, during the US Army's Cyber Quest experiment.

 

  • Data Robot used open-source data to detect bots and deep-fake algorithms, Col. John Agnello, director of the Army’s program officer for information advantage, explained. The tech could potentially help the service in the information advantage and dominance space by creating an 'overlay' for a commander to see and make decisions — a capability the Army doesn’t have yet, Col. Brett Riddle, director of the Army’s cyber battle lab, added.”

 

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DRAFT RFP - Professional Analytical Support Services at PERC

Dept. of Homeland Security

The PERC analyzes data derived from interoperability and applies criminal analysis and targeting capabilities to provide expeditious detainer issuance, enforcement and intelligence support, and proactive, risk-based targeting products on removable criminal noncitizens. Real-time criminal analysis and intelligence is disseminated to ERO field offices in the form of actionable leads associated with criminal noncitizens in federal, state, and local custody, as well as at-large criminal noncitizens.

Private Equity, Venture Capital, and Non-Depository Financial Institution Data

Dept. of the Treasury

The scope of this statement of work (SOW) is for the provision of data regarding private equity and venture capital and any services proper and necessary for OCC to retrieve this data.

Leads Online Amendment 1

Dept. of Defense

Access to LeadsOnline will afford valuable information regarding property under investigation to include pawn, sale, advertisement, and owner details. This information will greatly enhance property investigative efforts.

Global Maritime Information Source International Ship Tracking and Port of Call Registries Subscription Services

Dept. of the Treasury

The Department of the Treasury Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) has a determined need for a subscription to a web-based application resource that will enable OFAC to access a worldwide net of global coverage for Shipping Tracking & Transport Tracking and to monitor Port of Calls around the world.

Pre-Solicitation Conference - Login.gov's Next Generation of Remote Unsupervised Identity Proofing Solutions

General Services Administration

Pre-solicitation conference scheduled for August 21, 2023.

Program Executive Office Command Control Communications-Tactical (PEO C3T) Project Manager Mission Command (PM MC) Data Catalog

Dept. of Defense

Response to questions.

Supply Chain Analytics Platform Procurement

Dept. of Commerce

Response to questions.

Digital assets data subscription

Securities and Exchange Commission

Response to questions. Changes to solicitation.

CFTC Sole Source - Global CUSIP Data Provided by FactSet Research Systems Inc

Commodity Futures Trading Commission

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") intends to negotiate and award a sole-source contract for the procurement of the Committee on Uniform Securities Identification Procedures (CUSIP) Global Services dataset from FactSet Research Systems Inc (FactSet).

National Addictions Vigilance Intervention and Prevention Program Data (NAVIPPRO)

Dept. of Health and Human Services

The purpose of this contract is to obtain NAVIPPRO (National Addictions Vigilance Intervention and Prevention Program) data...Through the analysis, CDC will make significant contributions to the field of public health by preparing manuscripts and disseminating information to key stakeholders. CDC will use new knowledge gained from analyses of these data to inform prevention and response efforts at CDC and in the field.

Amended Sole-Source Justification - Sayari

Dept. of Justice

This contract action seeks to Increase the Level of Effort (ILOE) on an eisting CRM contract in support of a Division's section to add four additional Sayari licenses.

Aviation Databases

Dept. of Commerce

The contractor will deliver and provide JetNet access for 2 Users for one-year to the Rural Export Center to perform their work supporting the organization’s goal of promoting exports and raising awareness of U.S. Commercial Service and ITA services.

Legacy supplier retained as Covid and Ukraine war has ‘delayed meaningful transformation’ of national vetting system

Cabinet Office (UK)

Newly published commercial documents reveal that, at the start of this month, the Cabinet Office signed a contract – of unspecified length and value, and without any competitive process – with global IT services giant CGI, the provider of the National Service Vetting System (NSVS). The firm’s deal to support the service was due to conclude early next year but this has been extended – seemingly indefinitely – as it is no longer possible to complete a transformation programme intended to deliver a replacement before the existing agreement concludes.

Quilty Analytics Support Services

Dept. of Defense

Due to exclusive licensing agreements and proprietary information, no other vendor can provide the required reports with a concentration in Space technology, that include smaller "new space" companies, at the level of expertise required by the Government.

Lidar & Digital Imagery Data Collection 2023 LCR MSCP

Dept. of the Interior

Contract awarded to NV5 Geospatial for lidar & digital imagery data collection.

DoD chooses Palantir to automate spectrum coordination

Dept. of Defense

As part of an ongoing interagency effort to facilitate the shared usage of critically important mid-band spectrum, Palantir’s software will enable DISA’s Defense Spectrum Organization (DSO) to support formal and informal coordination processes between the Department of Defense and commercial licensees.

Army Leaders Say Data is Key to Tackling Contested Logistics

The U.S. Army will require a skilled data workforce, predictive logistics and the convergence of the service’s enterprise business systems to successfully adapt a data-centric sustainment warfighting function, Maj. Gen. Mark Simerly, Commanding General for the Combined Arms Support Command and Sustainment Center of Excellence, said this week.

The FBI should face new limits on its use of US foreign spy data, a key intelligence board says

The board recommends the FBI no longer search the data when it is seeking evidence of a crime not related to national security. Currently, the FBI conducts fewer than two dozen such searches a year, a senior administration official told reporters Monday.

IBM and NASA open source satellite-image-labeling AI model

NASA estimates that by 2024, scientists will have 250,000TB of data from new satellite missions. Now, the IBM open-source AI model will help analyse it.

IRS launches digitization effort to go paperless by 2025

The IRS also said in its announcement of the digitization program, that it would help enable agency data scientists to implement “advanced analytics and pattern recognition methods to pursue cases that can help address the tax, including wealthy individuals and large corporations using complex structures to evade taxes they owe.”

‘If we don’t use this information, we’re not doing our duty to protect people’ – Met Police science chief on data, bias and precision policing

Sherman, a Cambridge University criminology professor who has advised numerous law-enforcement agencies in his native US and around the world, is regarded as the founder of evidence-based policing – an approach which advocates greater use of data analysis in deploying resources, and ascertaining the effectiveness of new initiatives via controlled testing processes.

Intelligence Community Releases Data Strategy Emphasizing Better Interoperability and Agility Needed for Critical Missions

“In the next decade, we will be pushed even further and faster by expected and unexpected evolutions in technology, particularly of the internet and artificial intelligence,” Haines wrote at the outset of the strategy. “The IC Data Strategy will allow us to harness and accelerate our efforts in mutually reinforcing ways across the U.S. government, with our foreign partners and our private sector and academic partners, to make data interoperable and discoverable, and thereby unlock mission value and insight to ensure continued decision advantage and actionable intelligence.”

The government is struggling to track its AI. And that’s a problem.

As the Biden administration teases a new AI executive order, federal agencies are still catching up with 2020 AI rules issued by the Trump administration.

Some U.S. government agencies are testing out AI to help fulfill public records requests

A few federal agencies have started to use sophisticated artificial intelligence tools to help deal with immense caseloads of Freedom of Information Act requests, but some transparency advocates warn that the government needs additional safeguards before more widely deploying the technology.

Amazon's AWS helps marketers tackle data fragmentation with machine learning

As the fragmentation of customer data continues, AWS is planning additional integrations to boost Entity Resolution, including with LiveRamp and TransUnion, as well as interoperability with the Unified ID 2.0 open-source framework. Amazon Ads is also integrated.

ZeroEyes uses AI and security cameras to detect guns in public and private spaces

ZeroEyes has been rolling out the gun detection video analytics service since 2022. It combines the automated detection of gun-like objects with video analysis by human experts before it sends an emergency message to the place where a shooter might be present — before shootings take place.

Chinese tech giant Alibaba challenges Meta with open-sourced A.I. model launch

Alibaba will be open-sourcing the seven-billion-parameter model called Qwen-7B, along with a version designed for conversational apps, called Qwen-7B-Chat. This means that researchers, academics and companies globally can use the model to create their own generative AI apps without needing to train their own systems, saving time and expense.

RapidDeploy Uses ‘Lightning’ for Data Sharing in Emergencies

As the company put it in a statement, the general idea of the new app is to encourage the sharing of data among first responders, even if they are from different agencies. The app stands as the latest example of the spread of location data technology for emergencies, one of the biggest trends in the public safety space.

Air Force Distributed Common Ground System (AF DCGS) Virtual Industry Day

The purpose of this industry day is to increase industry awareness of future requirements in support of the AF DCGS weapon system, acquire market research for multiple AF DCGS project teams, and solicit feedback from industry representatives to increase competition opportunities for future initiatives, develop acquisitions strategies, and understand risks.

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