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 a the Federal Housing Finance Agency's request for a web-based platform providing enterprise-wide access to detailed financial data on domestic and international banks, counterparties, and real estate markets.
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Federal Housing Finance Agency (FHFA) — Financial Institution, International Counterparty, and Real Estate Sector Data - FHFA requires a commercially available off-the-shelf (COTS) online (i.e. web-based) access to, and the ability to download, financial information including financial data for: domestic financial institutions, international banking counterparties data, and domestic real estate sector. FHFA also requires online access to financial news and research information for the real estate sector and international banking counterparties. In the Division of Bank Regulation (DBR), the data will be used in the review of the Federal Home Loan Banks’ (FHLBanks’) monitoring of their members’ (domestic commercial banks, savings institutions, credit unions, and insurance companies) financial strength.
In other data news, on June 25th, Homland Security Today published an article entitled Unmasking Narcotics Networks: How OSINT Empowers Border Personnel in the Fight Against Illicit Drug Trafficking. In this story, Benji Hutchinson describes the transformation of border agents into data‑driven intelligence analysts by leveraging Open‑Source Intelligence (OSINT) to detect and intercept narcotics trafficking through analysis of public and dark‑web signals, geospatial patterns, and e‑commerce parcel data. The article illustrates how OSINT tools, powered by AI and multilingual NLP, act as force multipliers for frontline personnel, enabling early risk scoring, network mapping, and cross‑border collaboration without overburdening agents.
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“OSINT helps border agents correlate buyer and seller activity across the open and dark web, monitor Telegram or WhatsApp drug markets, and identify patterns in how traffickers mask shipments. When combined with AI-enhanced parcel screening and customs declaration analysis, it provides early warnings that manual inspection simply cannot match at scale. ”
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The Carpe Datum Team
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XBRL Subscription Service
Securities and Exchange Commission
| The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) requires a web-based research platform that provides access to a database of XBRL and other interactive and non-interactive data from public filings submitted to the SEC. | |
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Online Access to Edited Form 5500 Data Services
Dept. of Labor
| The EBSA requires support for Form 5500 research, compliance assistance and enforcement tasks. The contractor shall provide a 12-month subscription for database access to edited Form 5500 data. This data will be mapped with U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) data, investment performance and state insurance data. | |
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Used Vehicle Transaction Data
Dept. of Labor
| The primary goal of this acquisition is to obtain a one-time purchase of used vehicle point-of-sale transaction data during the timeframe of Jan. 2024 through May 2025. Data should have significant geographic coverage, including prices in all 50 states and major cities. | |
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U.S. Postal Service National Change of Address (NCOA) Link Product Licensing Fee
Dept. of the Treasury
| This product enables IRS to have access to a new address when a name and old address match the change of address file and there is detection of undeliverable addresses due to a change of address. | |
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Industry Day Follow-Up
Dept. of Veterans Affairs
| Industry Day materials published. | |
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Financial Data Subscription
Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board
| Response to questions posted. | |
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Access to Outpatient Longitudinal Data IDIQ
Dept. of Health and Human Services
| Response to questions and amended solicitation. | |
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DHS/CBP Commercial Solutions Opening - General Solicitation Release - Trade Solutions Pilot (TSP)
Dept. of Homeland Security
| Response to questions posted. | |
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Notification of the SEC’s Intent to Award a Single Source Purchase Order to Lacuna Clientscope Limited
Dept. of the Treasury
| The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) intends to award a firm-fixed-price purchase order on a single source basis to Lacuna Clientscope Limited...for licenses to an online database of banking information on comprehensive bank and payments data. | |
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Intent to Sole Source - Urban Institute Data
Dept. of the Treasury
| The Office of Financial Research has a need to obtain approval to award a firm fixed-price contract with Urban Institute for the purchase of Urban Institute Monthly State Government Tax Revenue and Urban Institute Monthly State Revenue Highlights datasets. | |
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Subscription for Market Research Database
Consumer Product Safety Commission
| The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) announces its intention to negotiate and issue a sole source award to Euromonitor International Ltd...to provide unlimited access to market research database content for six product categories (appliances, home and gardens, toys and games, apparel/footwear, consumer electronic, and homecare), mobility content, and other online content concerning the U.S. market. | |
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EuropaWorld Plus Subscription by Informa PLC
Dept. of Defense
| The Naval War College has a requirement for a renewal of a EuropaWorld Plus subscription, created by Informa PLC. … These include the Alma LSP, Primo Discovery System, and Springshare Library Software. | |
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London Stock Exchange Group Subscription
Dept. of Agriculture
| USDA issued a sole source firmed fix-price award for the International Production Assessment Division (IPAD) of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Foreign Agricultural Service (FAS), and Global Marketing Analysis (GMA) to obtain weekly area, yield and production (AYP) forecasts for top producing countries, and for all major grains, oilseeds and cotton fiber commodities. | |
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Drilling Data Subscription for OTS DEMD
Dept. of the Interior
| The Department of the Interior is awarding a contract to IHS Global Inc. for a drilling data subscription for OTS DEMD. | |
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Supervised Remote Identity Proofing (SRIP) Proof of Concept (PoC)
NASA
| The IAL3 Supervised Remote Identity Proofing solution allows the applicant to provide identity data, such as photo, I-9 documents, and biometrics in a remote location using a supervising operator to conduct the remote proofing activity. When validation and verification is combined with this data collection, NASA will be able to gain higher assurance in an individual’s claimed identity to grant credentials for access to NASA’s IT and Physical assets. | |
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NGA Awards BlackSky Potential $24M Luno A Task Order for AI-Based Analytics
Dept. of Defense
| BlackSky Technology has received a potential $24-plus million task order to provide the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) with object detection monitoring of military and economic facilities worldwide. | |
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Digital identification verification is the wave of the future at IRS | To prevent fraud, the IRS needs to make sure that tax filers are who they say they are. A new ID-proofing approach now means that more than 70% of filers can be verified digitally, but the GAO says IRS still needs to work on its privacy and program evaluation practices for digital identification. | |
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House lawmakers demand answers from California health exchange on sending data to LinkedIn | In a letter sent last week to Jessica Altman, executive director of the state’s exchange, the lawmakers write they are “deeply concerned about the privacy and security implications” raised by a Markup and CalMatters story published in April. | |
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The SAVE database was already a headache for states. Now it’s fueling Trump’s voter fraud allegations. | Experts believe lawsuits are first steps in a larger plan by the White House to create new metrics that lend support to the president’s unproven claims that noncitizens are voting en masse for Democratic politicians. | |
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DOJ Data Security Program: Insights on the Government-Related Location Data List | The GRLD List designates 736 geofenced locations—defined by latitude and longitude coordinates—as posing heightened national security risks, if precise geolocation data from within those areas is accessible to foreign adversaries. Notably, any precise geolocation data collected from within a designated area is automatically treated as government-related data and subject to the DSP’s restrictions, regardless of volume, which renders potentially routine location data from government sites into highly regulated information. | |
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Sudden loss of key US satellite data could send hurricane forecasting back ‘decades’ | The reasons for the changes, and which agency was driving them, were not immediately clear. NOAA said they would not affect the quality of forecasting. However, the Guardian spoke with several scientists inside and outside of the US government whose work depends on the DMSP, and all said there are no other US programs that can form an adequate replacement for its data. | |
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UK Space Agency backs projects on satellite data for public services | Among the projects is CORE – Corner Reflector Enabled Remote Sensing – under which Nottingham based Geospatial Ventures is developing a system using radar technology and AI to track tiny movements in buildings, bridges and other structures to spot potential safety issues. | |
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Hong Kong tests AI to ease travel disruption | Hong Kong’s principal railway operator has introduced a ridership prediction model that simulates and predicts passenger distribution and travel demand in the territory. “It is quite an unprecedented way of doing operations planning and is particularly useful when there is a sudden event that might disrupt normal operations,” said May Tso, Senior Technology Development Manager at MTR Corporation Limited. | |
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Framing the Solution: Tracking the Real Impact of Tariffs with Alternative Data (Part II) | Tariffs reshape economic behavior before the impact shows up in earnings. Companies respond by shifting supply chains, adjusting pricing, managing inventory, and changing strategy. Consumers react through substitution and trade-down behavior. These shifts are visible in real time using alternative data. This two-part series introduces a structured framework to track those effects. | |
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Securing America’s Defense Industrial Base | Recognizing the critical importance of these contracting companies, the Department of Defense (DoD) launched the Cybersecurity Maturity Model Certification (CMMC) Program to ensure that the DIB’s technologies and innovations remain secure and resilient against cyber threats. All DoD subcontractors, suppliers, service providers, as well as consultants and advisors, will be impacted by CMMC in one way or another. | |
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Bloomberg Launches Company-Level Geopolitical Risk Scores Quantifying Country Risk, Built with Seerist Threat Intelligence | Bloomberg today launched geopolitical country-of-risk scores for 7 million companies built with Seerist’s leading geopolitical risk and security intelligence. Available on the Bloomberg Terminal and via Data License for enterprise-wide use, these scores enable risk managers, portfolio managers and traders to quickly identify 29 political, operational, security, cyber or maritime country-level threats impacting their portfolios. | |
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Experian Strengthens its Fraud Fighting Capabilities with Mastercard’s Identity Insights | Mastercard's Identity Insights enriches Experian’s data by verifying and connecting identity elements, aiming to validate individuals' authenticity. When combined with Experian’s advanced fraud-detection capabilities, the integration offers robust protection against synthetic identity and application fraud, enhancing detection while reducing friction for legitimate customers. | |
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ICE seeks proprietary data, tech to monitor up to a million people; GSA plans to ‘flip’ the role of tech resellers with OneGov strategy | U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is looking to hire a company to help it mine through data sources including social media, international trade data, blockchain information, property records, and the dark web — the latest example of the agency looking to beef up the tools and platforms it uses in its enforcement operations. | |
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How the CIA is using AI for its open source intelligence mission | As head of the open source enterprise for the CIA’s Directorate of Digital Innovation, Kevin Carlson is helping usher in AI for the OSINT mission set. During a recent interview on the sidelines of the Special Competitive Studies Project’s AI+ Expo, Carlson shared the potential for AI in open-source intelligence, how the CIA is looking to operationalize AI, the impact of the technology on the CIA workforce, and much more. | |
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Unlocking Enhanced Law Enforcement Investigations with Babel Street | In this session, Brittany Mason, Director of Partner Enablement at Babel Street will introduce the Babel Street Law Enforcement Bundle, an affordably packaged solution specifically designed to meet the unique needs of law enforcement. We will provide a comprehensive demonstration of Babel Street Insights and Secure Access, highlighting their individual capabilities and demonstrating how their combined power can elevate your investigative efforts. | |
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