The Public Health National Program Office (PHNPO) requires a multi-component solution to identify and create actionable interventions around climate-related health risks to U.S. Veterans. This will include a solution that provides comprehensive climate data, modeling, and forecasting of climate impacts that have been demonstrated to impact health conditions affecting Veterans, and seamlessly integrates this data, including capabilities to synthesize, analyze, and visualize, with Veteran medical record health data in PHNPO’s existing public health surveillance platform, Praedico.

The FDIC Library is looking to subscribe to Property and Mortgage Information Resources to aid employees in their duties and support the FDIC’s mission to maintain stability and public confidence in the nation’s financial system.

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) seeks information regarding innovative approaches to generative artificial intelligence (AI) or machine learning (ML) models to achieve a revolutionary leap in applications of science and engineering by generating smaller evolutionary products of math, algorithms, or signal processing (MASP).

The performer shall provide a comprehensive, web-based data platform on federal legislative tracking to provide information to justify and defend ONR’s research portfolio budget.

Response to questions.

Date offers due extended to March 18, 2024.

Response to questions.

Date offers due extended to March 18, 2024. Response to questions.

Echosec systems provides critical layers of information from difficult to access data sources providing context and real-time information. This system platform aggregates and filters public content from hundreds of networks giving ISE instant visibility into threats.

The MSFC Protective Services Office (PSO) requires access to the National Crime Information Center (NCIC) system provided by the Alabama Criminal Justice Information Center (ACJIC). The ACJIC is the Alabama state agency responsible for connecting local, state and federal law enforcement agencies to the NCIC database administered by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

OFR is undertaking essential research into the linkages between financial assets that trade in different markets. The study requires high-quality high-frequency data for the assets. High-frequency financial data, also known as tick data, captures all transactions in one or more markets as the transactions occur.

DLA has a requirement to obtain FactSet Workstation subscription software licenses in support of the Applied Market Intelligence in Defense Acquisition effort.

Planet’s electro-optical imagery will be shared via SeaVision, a web-based platform used by the U.S. and allies to improve maritime domain awareness. The Naval Information Warfare Center Pacific last year awarded a contract to HawkEye 360 to integrate radio-frequency data in SeaVision.

“We are thrilled to move into the next phase to deliver these revolutionary capabilities to our warfighters,” Col. Chris Anderson, project manager for intelligence systems and analytics at Army Contracting Command, said in a statement. “TITAN provides game changing technologies on how we collect, process and disseminate intelligence across the battlefield, providing us a decisive edge in supporting Multi-Domain Operations.”

The Department of Defense is awarding a contract to Cryptography Research, Inc.

Excella will apply its expertise in data engineering, analysis, and visualization along with artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML), cloud, and UX design to help OPM utilize its wealth of data to create digital solutions that move the federal workforce forward. 

CBP leaning into biometrics on controversial app, raising concerns from immigrant rights advocates

U.S. Customs and Border Protection plans to expand the use of biometrics through its CBP One app, a platform created by the agency to help process people who intend to come to the country that has raised concerns from immigrant rights groups. The expansion of biometrics — and in particular, personal data about peoples’ faces — comes amid ongoing issues with the app’s technical capabilities. 

Thoughts on AI Interoperability

While the core transport protocols of the Internet are binary in character, one could imagine a more text-oriented exchange protocol for inter-ML systems that might be adequate and more easily debugged by human readers.

NGA looking for commercial data to update intel on North Korea

Industry has until March 29 to respond to the Feb. 27 call for bids, which is seeking “foundational data” on “North Korean economic, industrial, and infrastructure facilities identified using native North Korean nomenclature.” The NGA spokesperson explained that foundational data “describes physical and cultural characteristics, including elevation, coordinates, topography, geographic names, and human geography, as well as our earth sciences data (gravity, magnetics, geodetic surveys, etc.).”

Gensler Defends Predictive Analytics to Skeptical Audience

The proposal, first published in July 2023, would require an adviser to “eliminate or neutralize the effect of conflicts of interest associated with the firm’s use of covered technologies in investor interactions that place the firm’s or its associated person’s interest ahead of investors’ interests.”

Israel under pressure to justify its use of AI in Gaza

It’s unclear if any of the civilian casualties in Gaza are a direct result of Israel’s use of AI targeting. But activists in the region are demanding more transparency — pointing to the potential errors AI systems can make, and arguing that the fast-paced AI targeting system is what has allowed Israel to barrage large parts of Gaza.

US House panel approves bill, demands TikTok to sever ties with China or face ban

The bill takes a two-pronged approach. First, it requires ByteDance Ltd., which is based in Beijing, to divest TikTok and other applications it controls within 180 days of enactment of the bill or those applications will be prohibited in the United States. Second, it creates a narrow process to let the executive branch prohibit access to an app owned by a foreign adversary if it poses a threat to national security.

ODNI and CIA Release the Intelligence Community OSINT Strategy for 2024-2026

OSINT, or intelligence derived exclusively from publicly or commercially available information that addresses specific intelligence priorities, requirements, or gaps, is vital to the IC's mission, providing unique intelligence value and enabling all other intelligence collection disciplines. Given the expansive and evolving open source environment, the IC has been working to modernize its approach to collecting, creating, and delivering OSINT, and the IC OSINT Strategy outlines the way forward.

Flaws in public records management tool could let hackers nab sensitive data linked to requests

The GovQA platform, created by IT company Granicus, contained vulnerabilities that could have let cybercriminals retrieve tranches of sensitive files tied to public records requests, a security researcher revealed to Nextgov/FCW.

LinkedIn Founder Reid Hoffman's Emotionally Intelligent AI Just Got an Upgrade

Inflection, an AI startup co-founded by Hoffman, launched a new version of its empathy-focused large language model, which the company says is nearly as intelligent as ChatGPT.

red violet Appoints Jonathan McDonald as Executive Vice President of Public Sector Division

“Government agencies are challenged in today’s complex data environment and need effective technology and solutions that generate insights to address evolving threats, reduce fraud, and to make the world a safer place,” said Derek Dubner, CEO of red violet. “We are delighted to welcome Jonathan to our team as his extensive experience and proven leadership in the public sector will strengthen our ability to deliver our impactful solutions and drive sustainable growth in this key market segment.”

ShadowDragon Enters Strategic Partnership with Collaboraite to Build Trust in OSINT

Through this partnership, shared clients across the globe can now directly and securely access ShadowDragon OSINT investigative tools from within the Collaboraite platform and wider OSINT capabilities the group provides. Additionally, joint training courses will be offered in partnership with Vestigo® on how best to deal with the extensive operational challenges of safely and effectively researching on the internet, leveraging the extensive data sources within ShadowDragon.

Informatica Claims Data Fragmentation Is Standing in the Way of APAC Generative AI

APAC-based respondents are facing hurdles around the management of data for AI. These include data fragmentation amid an exploding number of data sources, the quality of data available for AI, and embedding data governance that is robust enough for the AI challenge. Richard Scott, senior vice president of Asia-Pacific and Japan at Informatica, said data literacy is important to support organisational data management. Scott recommended getting cloud data architecture right from the beginning and focusing on people, processes and technology.

Discussing sharper alternative data with Equifax

Alternative data isn’t new in auto financing. But Lena Bourgeois, senior vice president of vertical markets at Equifax, explained why alternative data is now more refined to the benefit of finance companies of all sizes.

Payment Integrity Industry Day

We are seeking information about what financial fraud identification and management solutions currently exist in the market and are interested in learning about tools and solutions both for reducing improper payments and preventing financial fraud.

Elastic's Public Sector Summit 2024

Join top federal program executives and IT leaders and learn firsthand how advances in data management, search, and analytics capabilities are helping agencies turn data into mission value faster and more productively for citizens and government employees. And learn how agencies are leveraging these capabilities for cybersecurity, operational resilience, and preparing for the new era of generative AI.