The latest news and opportunities in government data and analytics                                                   

VOLUME 7. ISSUE 23.

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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 DLA’s search for Supply Chain Risk Management software that can match or exceed the capabilities of their existing Argus Supply Chain Enterprise platform. The solution must be licensed for unlimited users, leverage Natural Language Processing to ingest and analyze up to five million documents, and offer comprehensive training and product support.

 

 

In other data news, on June 5th, Breaking Defense published an article entitled ‘No human hands’: NGA circulates AI-generated intel, director says. In this story, Sydney J. Freedberg Jr. reports that the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) is now routinely distributing AI-generated geospatial intelligence with machine-generated labels disclosing the level of AI involvement. While humans still oversee and train these models, the shift reflects the scale of data and growing trust in AI-driven intelligence products at the highest levels of government.

 

  • 'I think it’s significant that you now have an entity within the IC that is putting out a template that literally acknowledges, for the purposes of our readership, what you are looking at has not been touched by human hands, okay, that this is 100 percent machine-generated,' [Director Frank Whitworth] said. 'It’s important [for] those combat commanders and the secretary [of defense] and the president that they have that knowledge, so that they can assess and possibly ask additional questions, and that they know also the risk continuum that we’re all operating under.'”

 

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RX Pharmeceutical Prescription Data

Dept. of Justice

The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) is required by 21 U.S.C. 826 to establish the amounts of certain drugs that are to be produced in the U.S. each year and to equitably apportion those amounts among the producers. The objective of this contract is to obtain data to determine the amounts of certain drugs that should be allowed for production, annually.

Request for Information (RFI) Only- External Assessment Services

Dept. of Defense

The Army Contracting Command United States Army Intelligence and Security Command (ACCINSCOM) is currently seeking contractors capable of providing INSCOM with External Assessment Services. This requirement is to provide internet investigative, research, and analytical services to conduct assessments of people, profiles, locations, and/or infrastructure that leverages the most advanced publicly and commercially available tools, data, and techniques in order to proactively analyze data aggregation, conduct threat monitoring, and determine vulnerabilities of online exposure and ubiquitous technical surveillance.

Threat Mitigation and Monitoring

Dept. of Homeland Security

Over the last several years, ICE has experienced an increased level of external threat activity directed towards its Senior Leaders, personnel and facilities. Much of this threat activity originates from social media and online postings and has since expanded to physical attacks on ICE facilities and the homes of ICE employees. To prevent adversaries from successfully targeting ICE Senior Leaders, personnel and facilities, ICE requires real-time threat mitigation and monitoring services, vulnerability assessments, and proactive threat monitoring services.

Access to Outpatient Longitudinal Data IDIQ

Dept. of Health and Human Services

The objective of this Task Order is to obtain direct access to commercially available longitudinal outpatient prescription data and obtain support in regulatory drug utilization activities.

PNW 5C FFS Wildland-Urban Interface Risk Approaches

Dept. of Agriculture

Schedule of Items updated.

Local Media Services

Dept. of State

Modifications to the requirements and extension of the due date to July 7, 2025.

Solicitation 75H70725Q00105 Internet database "Information for Use," for Zuni Comprehensive Community Health Care

Dept. of Health and Human Services

Due date extended to June 12, 2025.

Standard & Poor’s (S&P) Global Market Intelligence Subscription

Dept. of the Treasury

S&P Global Market Intelligence has identified common items across regulatory reports and Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP) accounts for different types of institutions and across countries, which facilitates analysis that incorporates national banks, thrifts and other banking organizations in the U.S. and the development of analytical tools that apply across a wide range of countries. The OCC does not have other data sources that allow for such analysis of comparable data.

Regulatory Support Reports & Data Subscription

Dept. of Labor

The Employee Benefits Security Administration (EBSA) requests the renewal of the agencies Regulatory Support Reports and Data Subscription currently provided by Cerulli Associates, Inc. The Regulatory Support Reports and Data Subscription is a used by the DOL EBSA to secure historical, current, and projected information on retirement markets, investment vehicles and stakeholders impacted by its regulations and programs, such as IRAs, annuity market, employer-sponsored retirement plans, registered investment advisers, broker-dealers, retirement plan participants and retail investors.

Notice of Intent to Sole Source Award to Planet Labs Federal, Inc.

Dept. of Defense

The purpose of this synopsis is to announce the Department of the Navy, Naval Information Warfare Center (NIWC) Pacifics intent to award a Firm-Fixed-Price purchase order on a noncompetitive basis to Planet Labs Federal, Inc. 

New Generation Research (NGR) Bankruptcy Data

Dept. of the Treasury

As a joint effort with the White House Council of Economic Advisors, OFR is required to research the rising number of corporate defaults and bankruptcies from the COVID-19 pandemic event. OFR requires current and historical bankruptcy data sourced from at least ninety-four (94) U.S. bankruptcy courts beginning at least from the year 2000.

Seekr to Provide Army With Advanced AI, ML Capabilities

Dept. of Defense

Awarded under the Small Business Innovation Research, or SBIR, program, the contracts intend to advance military-grade AI tech and support the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense’s “Trusted AI and Autonomy” initiative, Seekr said Thursday. They will accelerate the deployment of AI/ML technologies for situational awareness and warfighter decision support.

Subscription Services

Dept. of Defense

This action is for the purchase of an annual renewal subscription with Axxis Software, LLC (Axxis) for the Axxis Petroleum Subscription package to include the Annual Price Service Subscription and Price History Data Warehouse Subscription.

Login.gov stumbles in federal effort to modernize digital identity

A new audit by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has delivered a sobering assessment of Login.gov, the General Services Administration’s (GSA) flagship digital identity verification platform. The audit underscores long-standing gaps in Login.gov’s security protocols, particularly its incomplete implementation of backup data testing policies – an issue that leaves the platform and the personally identifiable information it manages more vulnerable to cyber incidents.

NESDIS Publishes Orion Space Solutions' Earth Observation Digital Twin Study

Under a Joint Venture Partnerships award, Orion used a sophisticated visualization engine; the ability to run, manage and visualize complex processes using high-performance computing in the cloud; and physics-informed machine learning technologies to prototype an automated Earth observational data processing, analysis and visualization system and explore how digital twins could be used for a variety of purposes, including space domain awareness, sea ice retrieval, weather forecast dissemination and advanced machine learning algorithm training, NESDIS said Monday.

The DoD’s AI Auditor: Why the Time for a New Approach is Now

In a dangerous world, any Secretary of Defense should be able to get an immediate answer to a simple question: How much of each munition do we have right now—and where are they? This seemingly straightforward question has enormous implications for deterrence, resupply, and decision-making. Yet it triggers a cascade of emails, spreadsheets, and manual data pulls from dozens of disconnected systems, creating a strategic vulnerability that harms our ability to make time-sensitive decisions about force deployment, supply chain resilience, and resource allocation.

DoD fraud detection efforts at ‘starting line,’ watchdog says

To improve early detection of fraudulent activity, the Defense Department needs to first prioritize building its data analytics capacity, Bagdoyan said. Once that foundation is in place, the next step is to focus on data itself, making it clean, usable, reliable and ready to be analyzed so the end results are actionable.

Crowdsourcing real-time intelligence to inform tactical decisions

Imagine being able to access sensor and satellite imagery, civilian smartphones, and other publicly available information in real time to inform tactical and operational decisions. If that sounds like a good idea, you might not be in the intel community. Could we, or should we, use that data?

China's new regulations on government data sharing to boost service efficiency: expert

The National Data Administration (NDA) said that it will actively implement the new regulations, speed up data development and usage, and support high-quality economic and social development, according to the Xinhua News Agency on Wednesday. As China's first administrative regulations focusing on the sharing and circulation of government data, this step marks a new stage in government data management, Wang Peng, an associate research fellow at the Beijing Academy of Social Sciences, told the Global Times on Wednesday.

PRAC: Data Analytics Could Have Prevented $79B COVID Fraud

“Our oversight work during the past five years has detailed Federal agencies’ inability to use data to effectively prevent pandemic-related fraud,” PRAC Chair Michael E. Horowitz said in a June 4 statement. “By contrast, the PRAC’s sophisticated data analytics capabilities allow us to look across Federal agencies and programs to identify potential fraud before it occurs by comparing agency and other data with applicant-provided information, such as IP addresses, dates of birth, bank accounts, and home addresses.”

Anthropic launches Claude AI models for US national security

Anthropic says these Claude Gov models emerged from extensive collaboration with government customers to address real-world operational requirements. Despite being tailored for national security applications, Anthropic maintains that these models underwent the same rigorous safety testing as other Claude models in their portfolio.

Flock’s AI Cameras Are Watching Cars All Over America. They’re About To Get A Lot More Powerful.

Amid fears it’s created a mass surveillance system, Flock is turning its license plate readers into fully-fledged surveillance cameras, taking on what it claims is a monopoly on police tech by Axon.

The Intercept Sues for Records About Arizona’s Financial Surveillance Dragnet

The Intercept filed a public records lawsuit on Monday for documents about a financial surveillance program run by the Arizona attorney general’s office for more than a decade. For the past year, the attorney general’s office has denied multiple requests for records about its relationship with the Transaction Record Analysis Center, or TRAC, a nonprofit organization that runs a massive database containing details about millions of wire transfers sent through Western Union and other companies.

ShowSeeker and Comscore boost partnership

Pilot is a cloud-based campaign and order management platform that integrates person-level insights with viewing data. The expanded partnership will see Comscore add its person-level local live and digital video recorder data into the Pilot system to help users evaluate and transact on audiences.

Enhancing maritime security with OSINT

Maritime operators must now consider not just where a ship is going, but who built it, what surveillance data it shares, and how foreign governments may view its role in future conflicts. For logistics and shipping leaders, the implications are immediate. This is no longer about simply avoiding sanctioned cargo – it’s about forecasting how governments will act and how quickly those actions can alter operations.

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