The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA), in support of its Timely Imagery Content Dissemination Program, is seeking information on potential sources capable of providing technical expertise and services required to maintain, develop, implement, sustain, and modernize software supporting mission essential NGA capabilities and also have staff with active Top-Secret (TS) security Clearances.

Seeking innovative research to investigate algorithms, methodologies, and techniques for the demonstration and evaluation of enhanced signal information exploitation, dissemination, and analytics of existing and emerging adversarial systems. Areas of emphasis include 1) onboard processing enhancements of manned and unmanned Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance (ISR) platforms; 2) high speed signal detection and prosecution technology demonstration, 3) cross domain multi-sensor/multi-platform data analytics, and 4) Open System Architecture (OSA) compliance for demonstration in operationally relevant environments.

The goal of this acquisition is to: receive objective, available non-housing cost data for each CONUS/OCONUS duty location annually from the private sector, purchasing the data as required, which DoD can use to establish COLA rates for military personnel serving OCONUS and within the CONUS.

The TSA is requesting information on technical and operational capabilities that provide for a full suite of enrollment services. Enrollment services include, but are not limited to, the full technical and operational infrastructure to support biographic and biometric data collection, protecting and safeguarding applicant data/confidentiality, identity/immigration document collection and authentication, identity assurance capabilities, fraudulent document identification, fee collection, credential management/accountability/distribution, etc.

The purpose of this amendment is to cancel ARA FA8750-22-S-7002. This ARA is now closed and no further white papers will be accepted.

New attachments relating to DoD Advana program needs.

Consolidation task order approved. Redacted notice attached.

Final presentation slides and community day recording attached.

The Office of Financial Research has a need to obtain data regarding trade credit networks and the associated supply chain in order to deepen understanding of the propagation of financial shocks in credit chains.  The transactional security lending data provides market insight into the current market liquidity by asset class.  The service provides information from the principal lenders of record (the principal five custodial banks such as State Street) as well as other sources. 

The Bureau of Fiscal Service (Fiscal Service), on behalf of The Office of Financial Research (OFR) and the Financial Stability Oversight Council (FSOC), intends to contract with GreenStreet Advisors LLC...on a sole source basis. There is no competitive vendor or regulatory agency that provides these datasets. Green Street has exclusive publishing rights to weekly newsletter subscriptions in the real estate, finance, and investment fields.

The Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division Lakehurst, NJ intends to solicit, negotiate, and award a fixed price contract, on a sole-source basis to Senvol LLC...for the procurement of machine learning and transfer learning software at NAWCAD Lakehurst.

Full-text publications of 100+ science journals as well as some archived content on the Institute of Physics (IOP) platform are absolutely essential for the researchers using the databases at Patrick Technical Library. AFTAC STINFO Patrick Technical Library is looking for a current provider for commercial off the shelf access to the IOP journals platform.

The Government issues task orders under the Data Mining IDIQ for continued at-scale Data-Mining Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platform with direct data access via licensing and expert data analytic services.

Under the contract, BlackSky expects to provide analytical services that detect and identify objects of interest such as aircraft, ships, vehicles, and shipping containers. BlackSky will use its current and future time-diverse satellite constellation to provide change-monitoring services over critical infrastructure. BlackSky will leverage its proprietary broad area search capability to automatically detect and identify changes to the Earth resulting from human and natural activities such as deforestation, construction, mining, flooding and other phenomena that contribute to climate change or wildfires.

Subscription services of import/export trade data and statistics to support the economic security mission of the Nation State Threats Center (NST).

The purpose of this reprocurement is to receive automated data validation services (ADVS) & Competitive One-Bid Analysis that can identify suspected or known FPDS-NG errors to ensure that the entered FPDS-NG data is valid and accurate. HUD is also requiring a strategic sourcing solution that will track contract usage and leakage of its strategically sourced vehicles.

Pentagon CDAO seeks industry input on protecting IP: ‘We’re really open to feedback’

The Pentagon’s AI chief, Radha Plumb, wants more small, innovative companies to develop cutting-edge software for the Department of Defense, from the back office to the battlefield. But to make that happen, Plumb acknowledged Friday, she’ll have to assure them their trade secrets will be safe — not just from the government but from prime contractors. It’s a solvable problem, but it’s not yet solved, said Plumb, the Pentagon’s Chief Digital & AI Officer, and her organization can’t solve it alone.

‘You don’t get there unless you have the data’: Transcom taps Advana in real-world operations

U.S. Transportation Command’s primary data and decision-driving analytics asset Pegasus — which is an environment within the Pentagon’s enterprise Advana platform — was instrumental in the military’s recent accelerated withdrawal from Niger, supplying officials with a comprehensive view into all the personnel, weapons and equipment involved in the operation. And according to Transcom Commander Air Force Gen. Jackie Van Ovost, that digital hub continues to improve and steadily inform mission-based learnings with each new deployment and application.

NGA seeks help training AI to translate imagery for targeting intel

Under the Sequoia program indefinite delivery/indefinite quantity (ID/IQ) contract, chosen vendors will provide data labeling, which allows artificial intelligence and machine learning systems to discriminate among objects. It is a foundational capability in particular for NGA’s sprawling Maven program, according to NGA officials. NGA took over Maven from the Defense Department in 2022. NGA gathers imagery from satellites and aircraft, analyzes it, and then disseminates the resultant geospatial intelligence (GEOINT) products (such as 3D maps) to users across the US government, including to DoD leaders and military commanders.

State Dept Seeks to Build Cyber Data Automation Tool by December

“Right now, we have a lot of data that we’re ingesting, and then we’re trying to work with our different partners within the private sector, our Five Eyes and the interagency as well, to make sure what we’re doing right is making sense of the data — and then also leveraging the great technology capabilities that we have, in order to automate and then give some of that time back to the analyst to do more of that analytical work,” Medrano said Thursday at NextGov/FCW’s Government & AI Summit.

OMB releases AI procurement guidelines

Interagency collaboration and risk mitigation are the two big themes included in the Office of Management and Budget’s artificial intelligence software procurement guidance.

US govt hiding top hurricane forecast model sparks outrage after deadly Helene

A 2020 contract between NOAA and RenaissanceRe Risk Sciences, disclosed in response to a Freedom of Information Act request by The Washington Post, requires NOAA to keep HCCA forecasts – which incorporate a proprietary technique from RenaissanceRe – secret for five years. The deal is scheduled to expire next year, and NOAA reportedly expects to release HCCA model data in time for the 2025 hurricane season. But in the aftermath of Hurricane Helene – which hit the US southeast, left a 800-mile trail of destruction, and is said to have killed at least 130 people since Thursday – there are calls to make HCCA data available sooner.

South Korea hopes big data will boost life sciences industry

The ministry plans to select six major hospitals over the first half of the year to collect data from around 10 million people to create a biologic information database. This could then be used for research and development of new drugs, predict major disease, and detect unusual symptoms in vulnerable groups.

Making data matter at Mathematica

CIO Akira Bell is facilitating more equitable societal outcomes by delivering critical data and insights to the federal agencies the research and analytics consultancy serves.

RAG to the Rescue

Large language models (LLMs) have captured the public imagination with their ability to generate human-like responses. But the ability to create sonnets and write code within seconds will rarely deliver tangible value or ROI for businesses. Instead, it’s the accuracy, specificity and domain expertise that make AI tools useful. Retrieval augmented generation (RAG) is the key to providing this missing layer of detail.

FactSet Launches Data as a Service

Data professionals spend a significant amount of time ingesting, quality-checking, mapping, transforming, enriching, delivering, and monitoring data across the data pipeline. Often collecting data from disparate datasets using different identifiers, companies face challenges making that data work together and moving it quickly through the pipeline to the final user. Connecting, manipulating, and transforming these disparate datasets into the appropriate formats using FactSet DaaS allows data teams to cost-effectively manage and simplify this time and resource-intensive process.

How Businesses Can Take Advantage Of Open-Source Intelligence

NATO and the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) officially recognize OSINT as a tool of service and the DoD even defines OSINT as: "Derived exclusively from publicly or commercially available information to address specific intelligence priorities, requirements or gaps." There are many valuable ways to leverage online information for your business. By using easily accessible data, you can gain insights that can lead to positive and profitable outcomes.

How U.S. Customs and Border Protection is driving AI adoption, with CTO Sunil Madhugiri

Customs and Border Protection CTO Sunil Madhugiri joins the podcast for a wide-ranging interview. During the discussion, he highlights CBP’s developing AI portfolio, how the emerging technology landscape is evolving, what else is top of mind for the agency heading into 2025, and much more.

IWRP Quarterly Industry Day

Naval Information Warfare Systems Command (NAVWAR) and Naval Information Warfare Centers (NIWC) Atlantic and Pacific announce the Information Warfare Research Project (IWRP) Consortium Quarterly Industry Day hosted by Advanced Technology International (ATI), the IWRP consortium management firm, on 22 October 2024, at 8:00 Eastern Time at the Charleston Gaillard Center.

SOCOM ICSPOTS Assessment Event

SOFWERX, in collaboration with USSOCOM Program Executive Office – SOF Warrior (PEO-SW) and the Army Research Lab, will host the Intelligent Components Software Platforms Open Technology Systems (ICSPOTS) Assessment Event (AE) to develop concepts and components of systems that utilize an open architecture to enable Electronic Warfare (EW).

Generative AI and Information Warfare

The rise of generative AI could revolutionize bad actors’ ability to conduct social media manipulation. RAND experts Nathan Beauchamp-Mustafaga and William Marcellino will explore this issue through a case study focused on how the Chinese military may adopt generative AI to interfere in Taiwan's democracy.

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

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will hold its biannual Data Users’ Meeting on October 15-16 starting at 12 p.m. ET virtually via Zoom. This meeting is free and open to the public. Registration is required. 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.