The NIWC Atlantic Palmetto Tech Bridge (PTB) is seeking innovative technical approaches for 3 different problem statements: Computer Vision Surprise Challenge, Risky Facility Location Challenge, and Multi-Sensor Fusion for Autonomous Driving.

CPO is seeking an commercial off the shelf subscription to a service that provides access to credit research, ratings, and analysis for both public and private companies tailored specifically to the U.S. and global semiconductor manufacturing sector, updated as credit changes occur.

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC)...intends to procure a subscription to securities lending data that summarizes transaction level data by security by day. The subscription shall include historical data starting in 2013 or earlier delivered through FTP download or via a secure web portal.

The National Travel and Tourism Office (NTTO) within the International Trade Administration (ITA) requires subscription access to global travel data. 

Response to questions, and offer due date extended to August 24, 2023.

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The U.S. Department of Homeland Security, U.S. Immigration and Customs (ICE) Office of Acquisition Management (OAQ), intends to solicit from a single source...for Sayari Graph Analyst Software Application subscriptions for a base period and four, 12-month option periods.

OptumLab will be responsible for the data collection of electronic health records, health plan claims, and laboratory data that will be provided to the Division of STD Prevention (DSTDP).

Our objectives are to 1) quantitatively describe, for the first time, the likelihoods and frequencies of sea containers moving from and to different ports, 2) characterize the pest risks associated with important container ports, based on factors like proximity to habitat and local native/naturalized pests, and 3) synthesize the information to estimate port risks by destination, generally and for member countries.

The government is seeking sources that can extract data for examination and analysis of Internet History, Internet Artifacts, native mobile device applications, third party mobile device applications, mobile device backup files, Document File Artifacts, Windows Operating Systems Artifacts, Indexing, File System Analysis, Registry Analysis, and Instant Messaging Artifacts from computer systems and mobile devices.

USFFC Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) and Naval Cooperation And Guidance for Shipping (NCAGS) require a multi-source maritime fusion and predictive analytic resource that is web-based, non-classified, non-PKI commercial maritime information to provide near-real time, relevant and reliable data and information pertaining to the commercial maritime industry and provided by the commercial industry.

This contract is awarded for subscription to financial information including fixed income ownership and institutional profile data and Business Development Companies (BDC) data.

NASA has awarded the Socioeconomic Data and Applications Center (SEDAC) Distribution Active Archive Center (DAAC) support contract to Columbia University...Under this follow-on contract, Columbia will provide continued operation and support to acquire, process, archive, and distribute socioeconomic data and applications needed for NASA Earth science research, as well as related data products generated from Earth science instruments which are useful to the broader science community and educational institutions.

Spire Global, a global provider of space-based data, analytics, and space services, announced it was awarded a $6.5 million, 12-month contract renewal to continue participation in NASA’s Commercial Smallsat Data Acquisition (CSDA) Program.

State Department shutters AI-based project that aimed to forecast violence and COVID-19

The State Department is no longer pursuing an artificial intelligence project that aimed to “test the statistical relationship between social media activity overseas and activity by violent extremist organizations,” an agency spokesperson told FedScoop.

IARPA wants new options to spot when large language models exhibit potentially harmful behavior

The intelligence community’s primary research arm is exploring new ways to detect and combat vulnerabilities, biases and threats associated with emerging generative AI and large language model technologies that are increasingly informing U.S. intel analyses.

IBM, NASA & Hugging Face in AI move to fight climate change

"The essential role of open-source technologies to accelerate critical areas of discovery such as climate change has never been clearer,” said Sriram Raghavan, vice president, IBM Research AI. “By combining IBM’s foundation model efforts aimed at creating flexible, reusable AI systems with NASA’s repository of Earth-satellite data and making it available on the leading open-source AI platform, Hugging Face, we can leverage the power of collaboration to implement faster and more impactful solutions that will improve our planet.” 

From information war to emerging tech: new IC strategy centers ‘competition’ with China, Russia

Director of National Intelligence Avril Haines on Thursday released the 2023 National Intelligence Strategy (NIS), focusing on “strategic competition” with China and Russia across the economic, political and military spheres — and calling on the Intelligence Community to up its game on everything from information warfare to supply chain control to rapid adoption of emerging technologies.

JUST IN: Section 702 Must Get Reauthorized, NSA Chief Says

Introduced in 2008, Section 702 “permits the government to conduct targeted surveillance of foreign persons located outside the United States, with the compelled assistance of electronic communication service providers, to acquire foreign intelligence information,” an Office of the Director of National Intelligence fact sheet said.

5 federal use cases for generative AI

Federal leaders need to realize the promise of generative AI to improve their operations and meet their missions more effectively. They also need to understand the new and emerging risks. How can federal agencies hit the ground running with generative AI? First, leaders should be aware of these five federal use cases...

Data initiatives need to innovate on public engagement: Here’s how we can continue to improve

Dedicated civil servants, researchers, and trusted partners are promoting responsible access and use of government data by seeking, receiving, and integrating feedback and participation from the American public throughout the data collection and use process. But in doing so, they need to do more than invite interested parties to show up at a town hall meeting or respond to a notice in the Federal Register. They need to take a more active approach to public engagement to help drive effective evidence-informed decisions. 

The missing piece of the puzzle for advancing Biden’s racial equity executive order

 If Agency Equity Teams seek to create meaningful impact and change within the federal government, they will surely benefit from a standardized approach to monitoring and reporting on outcome measures. If that approach can exist in a single system – a unified data system – the federal government, agencies, departments, and programs can effectively plan for, implement, monitor, and report on an aggregate scale that was unimaginable a decade ago.

Dun & Bradstreet Introduces D&B Protect™ to Bring Supply Chain Industry Intelligence and Visibility to Public Sector Agencies

Fueled by machine learning, D&B Protect uses Dun & Bradstreet’s globally connected predictive data to uncover the sub-tiers of a supplier network and evaluate and monitor critical risk areas. With this level of transparency, government agencies will more easily identify verified and disclosable associations between organizations and proactively detect any areas of supply chain fraud or foreign influence concerns at unprecedented speed and scale.

MITRE partners with Robust Intelligence to tackle AI supply chain risks in open-source models

The Robust Intelligence and MITRE collaboration will result in the characterization and operationalization of risks, such as risk scores, software vulnerabilities, and related CVEs. Those characterizations will help create increased awareness of risks and vulnerabilities that may arise when users use open-source AI models.

AI threatens to add to the growing wave of fraud but is also helping tackle it

Already, the ability of AI to absorb personal data, such as emails, photographs, videos and voice recordings to imitate people is proving to be a new and unprecedented challenge. But there is also an upside. The government, banks and other financial organisations are now fighting back with increasingly sophisticated fraud-detection methods. AI and machine learning models could be a part of the solution to deal with the increasing complexity, sophistication and prevalence of such scams.

Focus on AI & Data Non-Negotiable for IC of Tomorrow, Leaders Say

Last month, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence issued a two-year roadmap for its data strategy. The document anticipates a number of lines of action on which the 18 intelligence community entities should embark to boost the interoperability, discoverability and artificial intelligence readiness of data inputs and output.

DHS S&T Transportation Security Lab (TSL) Machine Learning Industry Day

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) ... Transportation Security Laboratory (TSL), working in conjunction with DHS Transportation Security Administration (TSA) Requirements and Capability Analysis (RCA) and Acquisition Program Management (APM) are sponsoring an Industry Day to disclose, discuss, and receive feedback on a proposed framework for the submission, developmental training and testing, and validation (certification) of automatic threat detection algorithms incorporating machine learning.

Information Warfare Research Project (IWRP) 2 Virtual Industry Day

Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) and Naval Information Warfare Centers (NIWC) Atlantic and Pacific announce the Information Warfare Research Project (IWRP) Consortium Virtual Industry Day hosted by Advanced Technology International (ATI), the IWRP consortium management firm, on Wednesday, August 23, 2023 from 1100 to 1700 EST. The event will include technical briefs, and one-on-one break-out sessions with scheduled IWRP consortium members.

Privacy Preserving Digital Credential Wallets & Verifiers Industry Day

On August 18, 2023 SVIP will host Industry Day from Birmingham, AL—a hybrid event with live discussion panels and Q&A. Industry Day participants will hear from SVIP and DHS Operational Agencies about this funding opportunity, the operational use cases, the technical requirements for submissions, and how to apply to the Privacy Preserving Digital Credential Wallets & Verifiers Solicitation.

PEO(U&W) Industry Event 2023

The Program Executive Officer for Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons (PEO(U&W)) is planning to host an Industry Event in order to provide opportunities for industry to learn about the technology needs of the Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR), PEO(U&W) and the Navy’s Unmanned Community with the potential for follow-on briefings regarding technologies that industry has developed.