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 the Internal Revenue Service's request for a database subscription to support audits of intellectual property transactions and service agreements between taxpayers and related entities. The database must include a robust historical repository, advanced search and analysis tools, and provide unlimited data access to facilitate comprehensive transfer pricing analysis.
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Department of Treasury, Internal Revenue Service (IRS) — IRS Royalty IP database services - The IRS requires the purchase of a royalty database subscription capable of meeting all the Government’s requirements for a historical repository of IP and Service transactions. The database will be available to all IRS employees. The vendor will provide access to all IP and Service transaction data, tools, the use of the related software, and training for the database in accordance with the specifications in the resultant contract.
In other data news, on August 27th, Federal News Network published an article entitled Intelligence community sparks new efforts to deepen ties with private sector. In this story, Justin Doubleday details the efforts the DNI Avril Haines and the U.S. intelligence community to launch over a dozen initiatives to deepen collaboration with the private sector. These initiatives focus on areas like AI, cybersecurity, and supply chains, and include new performance objectives for intelligence officers, improved data sharing, and the establishment of an Office of Partnership Engagement to facilitate these partnerships.
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“Many of the initiatives are focused on getting intelligence analysts to work more closely with companies in key sectors like space, artificial intelligence and cybersecurity. For instance, Haines said ODNI plans to expand its 'public-private analytic exchange' program. The expansion will be led by the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence and Analysis.”
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Office of Naval Intelligence Shipping Vessel Reserch
Dept. of Defense
| The research tasks shall be based on requirements of the US Government that focus on the commercial merchant shipping/fishing industry to include commercial shipping/fishing companies, commercial port operations, vessel owners, and/or vessel managers, vessel construction, and vessel operation. This includes providing an understanding of company ownership, reputation in the maritime industry, their personnel, total maritime shipping assets, connections to other maritime shipping companies, complete financial information, history of litigation/investigations/disputes, and any association to illicit activity. | |
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ASN RD&A FIR Licenses
Dept. of Defense
| To support ASN RD&A’s Foreign Investment Review the Department of the Navy (DON) requires 5 enterprise-wide user licenses for commercial market analytics data sources that monitor instances of foreign direct investment into the United States. | |
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SEQUOIA (Formerly known as AI/ML Data Labeling)
Dept. of Defense
| The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA) intends to issue a Request for Proposal (RFP) for SEQUOIA, Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning Data Labeling services requirement. | |
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USDA-ERS, Comprehensive Historical Data for Agricultural Products
Dept. of Agriculture
| ERS’s main objectives for this data purchase is to conduct in-depth analysis of the role of Chinese futures markets in influencing the formation of international prices, determination of volumes of international trade, and mitigating price risk of trade in soybeans and other commodities. Data will be used to evaluate the contribution of Chinese markets to international efforts led by USDA to assess transparency and efficiency of agricultural market information. | |
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CANCELLATION NOTICE: Request for Proposal (RFP)/Combined Synopsis-Solicitation for Automated Financial Institutions and Providers Data Feed Products and Services (OEC eFeeds)
Securities and Exchange Commission
| Solicitation cancellation. | |
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Request for Information (RFI): Intelligence Community (IC) Data Co-op (ICDC)
Office of the Director of National Intelligence
| Changes to the solicitation. | |
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Access to Data for All Commodities
Commodity Futures Trading Commission
| Date questions are due extended to September 2, 2024. Date offers due extended to September 6, 2024. | |
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Artificial Intelligence Integration Center (AI2C) - Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
Dept. of Defense
| Changes to the solicitation. | |
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Intent to Sole Source - TRM Licenses
Dept. of the Treasury
| TRM Forensics delivers virtual currency data augmented with industry-leading threat intelligence. The service also provides information on custom risk analytics dashboards of entities within a regulator’s jurisdiction that provide live, risk-relevant data to help regulators understand key metrics. | |
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Subscription to Derwent World Patent Index Database (DWPI) and Foreign Data Collection (FDC)
Dept. of Commerce
| The objective of this contract is to acquire a subscription (including technical support) to an international patent repository, including bibliographic data DWPI and a collection of full text, full image documents translated into English for USPTO’s STIC FDC. | |
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Business intelligence platform with robust data analytics, data visualization, and translation support for English to Japanese, and Japanese to English, that can pull public information and allows large data file upload
Dept. of Defense
| The purpose of this action is a combined business intelligence, translation, data analytics, and data visualization software that supports English and Japanese source data (both pulled from the internet, and also filed uploaded), that allows robust filtering and grouping of the data...This must be able to ingest data sets in English and Japanese and apply analytics, filtering, visualization, and translation to the opposite language (English to Japanese and Japanese to English) so that each party can use and discuss the common outputs. | |
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CoStar License Renewal
Dept. of Agriculture
| FPAC seeks to decrease CoStar Licenses from 9 to 8 to assist with required market research and analysis needed for the Lease Acquisition and Administration Branch. The period of performance would consist of one base year starting FY24 and four option years. | |
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Costar Realty Subscription
Dept. of Agriculture
| The Department of Agriculture is awarding a contract to Costar Realty Information, Inc. | |
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Accenture Wins $75M AI Contract with U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
| Accenture Federal Services has won a $75 million, five-year contract to scale the use of artificial intelligence and modernize how the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) performs patent examinations. | |
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Brand Name or Equal Manetu PolicyEngine and Secure Data Licenses (VA-24-00085949)
Dept. of Veterans Affairs
| The Department of Veterans Affairs is awarding a contract to Distributed Technology Group, LLC. | |
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‘AI gold mine’: NGA aims to exploit archive of satellite images, expert analysis | The director of data and digital innovation at the National Geospatial Intelligence Agency said the NGA has started training artificial intelligence algorithms on its unique trove of visual and textual data. This data is “an AI gold mine,” said Mark Munsell. That’s not just because it consists of large amounts of well-labeled, well-organized, and carefully vetted data, accumulated over decades by the intelligence agency tasked with compiling and analyzing geospatial data for policymakers from the president on down. It’s also because this data is what experts call multi-modal, combining images with text descriptions. | |
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Air Force’s new tool will track department’s AI initiatives, spending | “One of the things Congress has levied upon us is we must be able to have an AI inventory so we can report how much money we’re spending on AI. But more importantly, how are we tracking the time back on mission for our Airmen and Guardians? So Clara is a way in which we’re going to do that,” Venice Goodwine, the Air Force chief information officer, said during the Department of the Air Force Information Technology and Cyberpower event on Monday. | |
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Special operators hope AI can reduce civilian deaths in combat | A 2021 International Red Cross report looked at some of the areas where AI, particularly tied to more precise targeting and better battlefield data analysis, could make conflict safer for civilians and non-combatants. Such systems “may enable better decisions by humans in conducting hostilities in compliance with international humanitarian law and minimizing risks for civilians by facilitating quicker and more widespread collection and analysis of available information,” it says. | |
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NASA’s Entrepreneurs Challenge Prize Winner: New AI Method Transforms Global Methane Detection | The Geolabe team has developed a deep learning architecture that automatically identifies methane signatures in existing open-source spectral satellite data and deconvolves the signal from the noise. This AI method enables automatic detection of methane leaks at 200kg/hour and above, which account for over 85% of the methane emissions in well-studied, large oil and gas basins. Information gained using this new technique could help inform efforts to mitigate methane emissions on Earth and automatically validate their effects. | |
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OpenAI backs California Bill aimed at unmasking AI-generated content | San Francisco-based OpenAI believes that for AI-generated content, transparency and requirements around provenance such as watermarking are important, especially in an election year, according to a letter sent to California State Assembly member Buffy Wicks, who authored the bill. With countries representing a third of the world’s population having polls this year, experts are concerned about the role AI-generated content will play, and it has already been prominent in some elections, such as in Indonesia. | |
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Feds Warn of AI Challenges in Data Authenticity | He explained that the problem with many uses of AI is the assumption that “[it] could produce globally authentic data,” but in some cases it’s not succeeding in that goal. Corvey explained that users of AI, particularly researchers, must “unpack AI generated information with two key things in mind; authenticity … and techniques before we utilize this information,” Corvey said. | |
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Arkansas launches new group to study how AI can be used within state government | "As we work to find efficiencies within state government, AI can play a role, with appropriate guardrails, in improving our level of service to Arkansans while keeping costs low," Gov. Sanders said. "At the same time, we must prevent the misuse of AI to protect Arkansans. This working group will build the knowledge base we need to achieve those goals safely.” | |
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Congressional candidates clash over tech, privacy and AI in Delaware | Unlike the European Union, the United States does not have a federal law protecting consumers’ data. The American Privacy and Protection Act, was introduced in the House in 2022 but hasn’t moved since December of that year. Would you support moving forward with the American Privacy and Protection Act? | |
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Visa in Talks to Acquire British Fraud-Fighting Firm Featurespace in a Deal Worth £700 Million | The proposed acquisition highlights Visa’s strategic focus on expanding its technological capabilities to address the growing challenges of financial fraud in an increasingly digital world. Featurespace’s advanced analytics and machine learning solutions are expected to complement Visa’s existing security infrastructure, providing an additional layer of defense against fraudsters. | |
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AI and racism: How artificial intelligence promotes racist rants against Indians | As artificial intelligence (AI) gets more deeply enmeshed with human lives, the question emerges time and again around the extent to which AI has superior capabilities than human intelligence and skills. While AI has displayed immense potential to be superior to skills possessed by humans in certain sectors, the fact remains that AI itself adheres to human behaviour and thinking. There is a general misplaced belief that technology and AI are neutral and objective. It is precisely this misperception that allows AI to perpetuate racial discrimination. | |
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Sumo Logic and AWS to Deliver AI-Powered Log Analytics for Dev, Sec and Ops Teams | Sumo Logic unifies and analyzes enterprise data, translating it into actionable insights through one AI-powered cloud-native log analytics platform. This single source of truth enables Dev, Sec and Ops teams to simplify complexity, collaborate efficiently and accelerate data-driven decisions that drive business value. | |
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LeoLabs sees defense business grow as space-tracking needs multiply | "I like to think of our company as building a living map of orbital activity, and it should enable dynamic space operations. We have these six radar sites that have 10 active radars where we’re collecting over a million measurements a day of these objects, which tell us where things are and allows us to predict where they’re going." | |
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The industry day will serve as a collaborative event for the CDAO and its industry partners to engage in knowledge-sharing, explore potential partnerships, and shape future opportunities to contribute to Advana, the DoD’s largest big-data system and unified platform enabling over 100k DoD mission owners, analysts, and data scientists to simplify more than 3,000 business systems and conduct advanced analytics. | |
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NESDIS Community Day: Overview and Update on the NESDIS Commercial Data Program General Request for Information (G-RFI) | NOAA’s National Environmental Satellite, Data, and Information Service (NESDIS) Office of Systems Architecture and Engineering (SAE) will host an online Commercial Data Program (CDP) Community Day 1-2:30pm Eastern, Thursday, Sept. 26. The focus of this community day is to provide a NESDIS CDP status and describe how NESDIS is using the results from the General Request for Information (G-RFI) released by the NESDIS CDP in December 2023 (Notice ID: NEEP-FY24-CSD-GRFI). | |
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Dataminr New York City Public Sector Open House | Dataminr will provide an executive briefing on physical and cyber security for the upcoming United Nations General Assembly and U.S. Presidential election. You’ll also learn about Dataminr’s new cyber offering for the public sector, Pulse for Cyber Risk, which strengthens resilience across three key use cases: digital risk, third-party risk, and vulnerability intelligence. | |
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