The Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) is seeking information on how any interested and qualified vendors could provide both U.S. and global supply chain data reporting and analysis services.

The International Affairs Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) Office requires a subscription service that will facilitate the research of various equity investments, essential to the non-notified work done by CFIUS.

The Food and Drug Administration’s Center for Drug Evaluation and Research has a need for access to Healthcare Practitioner Prescribing Practices Data.

A fully customizable map that displays critical events happening in real time across the globe. Includes everything from terror acts to kidnappings, and port security red flags to aviation incidents.

Amendment #2, containing clarifications, is now available in the NATO procurement portal.

Revised solicitation posted.

Corrections and clarifications posted. Electronic quotes must be submitted by 3:00 PM on Friday, March 24, 2023.

Response to questions posted.

It is important that BEA continually strives to improve the accuracy of estimates in the national accounts to obtain estimates of real Gross Domestic Product (GDP). BEA requires U.S. forecasts and U.S. economic outlooks for the short-, mid-, and long-term.

Moody's Analytics will provide a data subscription service that offers housing market analysis, sales transactions, single property valuation and analysis, comparable real estate sales, commercial property data, 25-year house price index forecast by Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA), and climate data risk scenarios.

BEA requires a consistent time series of US video streaming, including pure SVOD, SVOD+Live TV, premium network apps, sports subscription, video rentals, % of households, household counts, and spend data.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection intends to issue a Firm Fixed Price sole source award to ORBCOMM, Inc to provide a combined satellite/terrestrial data feed in National Marine Electronics Association (NMEA) 0183 in support of Air and Marine Operations.

The electronic management system must be configuarable to accommodate USICS specific onboarding needs and will allow the agency to confirm that each I-9 form is properly completed and retained, as well as maintain compliance with E-Verify requirements and federal law. 

Australian company FloodMapp has been awarded a contract to provide the US Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) with operational flood inundation and analytics data feeds, including assessment of potential damage to properties.

This design work, which comes on the back of “an initial consultant-led exploratory phase follows”, will incorporate reviews of “both health and non-health examples globally on how data and analytics teams are configured in the spirit of what excellent looks like with three lenses: people; processes; [and] technology – architectures [and] infrastructure including platforms”, according to the contract.

DIA's New China Mission Group Will Track the Threat Posed by AI Development

The Defense Intelligence Agency’s China Mission Group will be monitoring the country’s use of AI software and other technologies in a national security context.

A Different Kind of Space Force: How NASA satellite data is harnessed to combat food insecurity

Mitkish of NASA Harvest announced that NASA has added a second space-meets-ag-data consortium, NASA Acres. The new initiative will “unite physical, social, and economic scientists with leaders in agriculture from public and private sectors. They will have the shared mission of bringing NASA data, science, and tools down-to-Earth for the benefit of the many people working to feed the nation.” 

IRS plans to approve use of Login-dot-gov as Tax Day nears

Less than a month out from Tax Day, the IRS is preparing to implement a government-operated identity verification system: Login.gov. Taxpayers will be able to use the single sign-on tool to access tax documents and make payments through IRS.gov as soon as next week, FCW and Nextgov have learned.

What the FTC Is Signaling in Recent Data Privacy Cases

The Federal Trade Commission's recent actions against two companies in separate health data privacy cases underscore the agency's "aggressive push" to enforce violations involving disclosures of consumer health data to social media and other third parties, said privacy attorney Kirk Nahra of the law firm WilmerHale.

NYC Is Looking for Its Next Artificial Intelligence Czar

“Part of this new director's job will be to do collaborative work with agencies to better identify where AI can be used, and where there are resources that could be brought to bear to help support agency use of AI machine learning,” said Alex Foard, the executive director for Research & Collaboration for NYC’s Office of Technology and Innovation. 

Why it's time for a pivot on digital identity

 The White House should rethink their approach to reducing identity theft in public benefits to align with the broader objective outlined in the National Cybersecurity Strategy—one that would invest in digital identity infrastructure that can reduce identity theft and cybercrime in every sector.

How International Acquisitions Can Become a Cybercrime Frontier

Public entities like the FBI and Department of Treasury are carefully monitoring international business transactions as potential backdoor threats to U.S. national security.

Government Hasn't Justified a TikTok Ban

Nearly all social media platforms and other online businesses collect a lot of personal data from their users. TikTok raises special concerns, given the surveillance and censorship practices of its home country, China. Still, the best solution to these problems is not to single-out one business or country for a ban. Rather, we must enact comprehensive consumer data privacy legislation.

LeadIQ expands mobile data coverage to more than 49 million contacts

LeadIQ continues to focus on adding the data our customers need. That's why we're focused on building a smarter database that helps teams build more pipeline in today's market.

GPT-4 has come to LinkedIn, because of course it has

The business-focused social media platform announced Thursday that it will begin testing a host of AI-driven features based on both the GPT-3.5 and GPT-4 language models with its Premium subscribers. These functions will allow people to do things such as create more personalized profiles and job descriptions using AI-generated prompts. 

Protecting the data that makes cities smart

Key to balancing privacy and innovation is understanding that many cities are already collecting data with little threat to individuals’ privacy, the report states. For instance, smart grid technologies embedded in the energy system—think smart meters, buildings and appliances—provide real-time data on energy consumption that allows for dynamic pricing and demand response, which can reduce emissions.

EagleView Unveils Geospatial Platform for Industries and Public Sector

The platform includes the capability to leverage EagleView’s library spanning multiple decades and 20 million+ square miles of geospatial images and data captured using EagleView’s technology. This native access to the multi-decade imagery database includes high-precision aerial captures of properties and rural and city landscapes (including bridges, roads, powerlines and other features) from which strategic partners can utilize machine learning tools to extract unique data.

Better Data Is Needed for Evidence-Based DEIA Policies

Systemic racism continues to be a part of American society, particularly in the workplace. Measuring inequality with better data will produce better analysis of – and solutions to – inequalities in systems like education, economic development and human capital.

USDA to host Data Users' Meeting to gather public input on statistical programs

The Data Users’ Meeting is held to share recent and pending statistical program changes with the public and to solicit input on these and other programs important to agriculture. The event is organized by NASS in cooperation with the World Agricultural Outlook Board, Farm Service Agency, Economic Research Service, Agricultural Marketing Service, Foreign Agricultural Service and U.S. Census Bureau.

DAF's first Data, Analytics, and AI Forum open for registration

The Department of the Air Force’s Chief Data and Artificial Intelligence Office and the Office of Studies and Analysis are partnering to present the Data, Analytics, and Artificial Intelligence Forum in Herndon, Virginia, April 24-27. Registration is now open for this four-day gathering of the nation’s top Artificial Intelligence and data experts to share, demonstrate, and expand collaborations among key government, military, academia, and industry stakeholders.