The Complete Streets Artificial Intelligence (CSAI) Initiative is a multi-phase effort to develop a suite of powerful new decision-support software tools for state, local, and tribal transportation agencies that assists in the siting, design, and deployment of Complete Streets.

The FDIC Library is looking to subscribe to cryptocurrency data and tools to aid employees in their duties and support the FDIC’s mission to maintain stability and public confidence in the nation’s financial system.

EBSA requires online access to reports and databases that provide detailed information, both historical, current, and projected, on markets, investment vehicles and stakeholders impacted by its regulations. The information shall also support EBSA’s research work and enforcement program.

The purpose of this SS is to broaden FDA’s understanding of the market’s capability, either as solutions requiring potential development of a flexible system using current technologies, or existing commercially available applications, augmented by artificial intelligence and machine learning (AL/ML), to provide a next generation imports screening system utilizing big data.

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To increase I&A’s knowledge on electrical steel supply and the electrical steel end-use application in electric vehicles. I&A requires specialized data (including proprietary data) and analytical expertise. This data and analytical expertise will help ensure I&A’s supply chain analysis is complete and accurate, and ensure recommended policy actions are complete and correct.

The Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the Office of Policy Development and Research (PD&R), have an ongoing need for reliable foreclosure, delinquency, and residential sales data. HUD Economists and Policy Analysts routinely evaluate changes in neighborhoods and housing markets and gauge the effectiveness of HUD’s responses to changes in those markets.

The Office of the Secretary intends to award a sole source contract for the Bureau of Economic Analysis to S&P Global Market Intelligence LLC, 55 Water St Fl 40 New York, NY, 10041-0004, for data purchase, which provides a wide variety of statistics, facts, and current market data on many industries and topics that are all relevant for measuring cloud price index services.

PitchBook/LCD is the most comprehensive source for global capital market data, particularly the private market with private equity and venture capital deals, M&A acquirer data, limited partner data, and leveraged loan news and analytics. The service also provides mid-day and market closing information, capturing major events and changes which have influenced the markets over the course of the day.

This action is for the purchase of a subscription renewal from S&P Global, Inc., DBA Platts (Platts) for market pricing to include end-of-day data and pricing alerts.

The overall objective of this Task Order (TO) is to obtain all information necessary to analyze current conditions of airspace use that may be affected by the establishment of a low-altitude military operating area (MOA) underlying the existing Randolph-2 MOA. The resulting data package should be sufficient to support the U.S. Air Force (USAF) Environmental Impact Analysis Process (EIAP) to determine the environmental impacts and cumulative impacts from the establishment of the Randolph-2 Low MOA.

BlackSky Technology Inc. (NYSE: BKSY) won a contract from the Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity (IARPA) to move forward into the third and final phase of the multi-year Space-based Machine Automated Recognition Technique (SMART) program — Phase III emphasizes the transfer of SMART broad area search technologies into other U.S. government programs.

Transportation launches $15M AI effort to improve US street infrastructure

Announced on Friday, the Transportation’s Small Business Innovation Research Program will spearhead the Complete Streets AI Initiative to bring AI and machine learning solutions to transportation infrastructure. The program is intended to foster decision-support tools for state and local governments that can help design and deploy a network of Complete Streets, a longstanding agency initiative to support the construction of livable, connective public streets. 

NIST focuses on data, testing to ensure efficacy of AI-powered identity systems

The National Institute of Standards and Technology wants to make sure identity systems, which increasingly leverage artificial intelligence and machine learning, are trained on good data and continuously tested to prove out their efficacy. But a NIST official says a key challenge is harnessing robust datasets and testing methodologies across a quickly growing range of applications.

NGA seeks ideas for using data to predict illegal fishing

Illegal fishing harms the legal fishing industry and endangers the marine ecosystem. That is why the Coast Guard and other agencies spend so much time trying to detect and stop it. Now the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency is launching a prize challenge for data-based ways to get on top of illegal fishing. For details,  the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with research and development scientist Mike Brady.

ICE says it’s stopped using commercial telemetry data

The move comes amid ongoing bipartisan concern about law enforcement agency purchases of peoples’ location data without obtaining a warrant. Sens. Rand Paul, R-Ky., and Ron Wyden, D-Ore., have proposed the Fourth Amendment is Not for Sale Act, which would require law enforcement agencies to seek the permission of a court before paying for location data. The Federal Trade Commission also recently took action against the selling of location data by data brokers.

Three Ways to Monitor, Mitigate & Respond to Supply Chain Challenges

According to recent announcements by DHS and the White House, the Supply Chain Resilience Center (SCRC) will be charged with analyzing vulnerabilities and conducting scenario planning with private sector stakeholders to help mitigate supply chain disruptions, ensure reliable and efficient deliveries of goods and services, and lower supply chain costs.

Democratic lawmakers call on DOJ to stop funding predictive policing systems

In a letter to Attorney General Merrick Garland, the lawmakers cited concerns that the predictive systems rely on data that is flawed and are therefore “prone to over-predicting crime rates in Black and Latino neighborhoods while under-predicting crime in white neighborhoods.”

Open-Source Intelligence Changes the Game for Spies

A staggering amount of data, from Facebook posts and YouTube clips to location pings from mobile phones and car apps, sits in the open internet, available to anyone who looks. US intelligence agencies have struggled for years to tap into such data, which they refer to as open-source intelligence, or OSINT. But that’s starting to change.

State privacy laws largely fail to protect consumer data, report shows

The report, authored by the nonprofit Electronic Privacy Information Center and the research organization U.S. PIRG Education Fund, evaluated the 14 “comprehensive” — a term commonly ascribed to such legislation — laws states have passed to protect consumer privacy, and assigned each a letter grade based on its efficacy. None received an “A” grade and half received a failing grade. The weakness of the laws, researchers claim, results from the lack of a federal privacy law and lobbying by big tech companies like Amazon and Meta.

Court Rules Meta's Terms Do Not Prohibit Scraping of Public Data

After reading the terms of service very closely, the court stated that Meta's terms are only applicable to a user who is actively logged in to their account and is using the account for the purpose of scraping data. As such, Meta's terms do not apply to the scraping of public information while logged out of an account.

Informatica’s Annual Survey Highlights Data Leaders’ Strategies for Generative AI Implementation

“Unsurprisingly, generative AI implementation and the data strategies needed to do so successfully continue to dominate bandwidth for most data leaders, regardless of region or vertical,” said Jitesh Ghai, Chief Product Officer at Informatica. “While there remains a myriad of technical and organizational hurdles that these leaders must navigate, it’s clear investments in holistic, highly integrated data management capabilities are the key to unlock the vast potential of GenAI and empower enterprises to take full control of their ever-expanding data estates.”

Vizion Announces Global Trade Intelligence Solutions in Collaboration with Dun & Bradstreet

The platform will enable customers to evaluate performance, risk, and shipment history for 500M suppliers and logistics providers. TradeView will offer customers the ability to identify up-to-date regulatory compliance and ESG concerns within value chains of products and companies, monitor the live flow of any company’s shipments 30-90 days before arrival at destination, and analyze trends across 10 years of historical supplier, product, and transportation data.

Blu Parrot Forges Powerful Partnership with Bright Data to Harness Public Web Data for Advance Data Analytics & AI

The partnership allows Blu Parrot access to Bright Data's state-of-the-art technology, enabling the company to meet the extensive business research needs of its clients. With this, Blu Parrot is poised to enhance its Data and AI offerings, providing clients with even more powerful and reliable insights.