The objective of this procurement is to continue to produce high quality official statistics while making use of a third-party data source that is collecting data that is comparable to what retailers would be providing on Census Bureau data collection instruments.

Treasury may have an upcoming opportunity for a Web-based investigative platform that allows investigators and analysts to easily access billions of public records and additional investigative content in an intuitive working environment.

To carry out the mission, CHIPS R&D requires software that delivers data, research, and technology covering private capital markets, including venture capital, private equity, and mergers and acquisitions transactions.

Media monitoring services will provide a platform to give I MEF COMMSTRAT the ability to track hyper-local, local, regional, national and international media events across various media platforms, including print, broadcast, web-based, and social media.

Date offers due extended to July 22, 2024.

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Date offers due extended to July 26, 2024. Response to questions coming soon.

The purpose of this contract is to secure a sole-source award with IQVIA Government Solutions for data procurement. Procurement of real-time data to understand the prescribing practices of behavioral health providers nation-wide. This data procurement will support the assessment of mental health and substance use treatment in the nation.

The Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") intends to negotiate and award a sole-source contract for the procurement of insurance index and integration constituent data feeds from S&P Global.

Software shall provide a platform to develop and deploy 3D geospatial solutions. Software shall provide integration into the 03DE engine, integration with a WGS84 globe, robust API, and integration avenue to host custom 3D data (models, terrain etc.). The software will provide a rich 3D geospatial data solution, equivalent to the 3D tiles: tilesets JSON in the format of .b3dm, .i3dm, .pnts, .cmpt, files to incorporate the concept of Hierarchical Level of Detail (HLOD).

Federal regulations require NASA to evaluate market conditions and obtain fair market value for use of its facilities and best value for facilities it requires. The purpose of this project is to obtain licensed access to the most widely used, authoritative commercial property database to support fair and best value analysis by NASA staff.

Award to Gerulata Technologies for social media monitoring services focused on disinformation spread in Slovakia. The monitoring tool and regular analysis have brought a significant improvement in Embassy’s strategic communications by allowing us to identify, track, and strategically counter through our own messaging, disinformation narratives in the Slovak infospace.

Award to Govini.

The competition challenged nonfederal innovators to develop a concept of operations and demonstrate forecasting capability, with the goal of using the industrial fishing forecasts to complement NGA efforts to systematically detect, track and characterize maritime vessels engaged in illegal, unreported or unregulated fishing. IUU fishing is a key contributor to the decline and potential collapse of fisheries, threatening the stability of economies, food systems and ecosystems regionally and worldwide.

Under the contract, Spire will supply real-time global ship tracking data, offering comprehensive visibility in both open oceans and high-traffic areas. The company will also provide historical AIS data and AIS position validation capabilities, utilizing its expertise in radio frequency geolocation to accurately determine a ship's location even if its signal is tampered with.

CDAO opens Advana analytics to multiple vendors in a push to scale up

In an interview today, the senior officials said the system needed to evolve to keep pace with its own growing popularity. “We’re kind of victims of our own success,” one official told Breaking Defense in an exclusive interview ahead of this afternoon’s public announcement. “[So] we’re moving into more of an interoperable ecosystem of data and platform of apps and data and platforms … to lower the barrier for new entrants, from software developers to data infrastructure providers to data services.”

Augmenting humans: Why the CIA's Chief Technologist is cautious about embracing generative AI

CIA Director William Burns says AI tech will augment humans, not replace them. The agency’s first chief technology officer, Nand Mulchandani, is marshaling the tools. There is considerable urgency: Adversaries are already spreading AI-generated deepfakes aimed at undermining U.S. interests.

A US agency focused on foreign disinformation could shut down after the election

Republican lawmakers have accused the GEC of censoring and surveilling Americans. And two conservative media outlets, the Daily Caller and the Federalist, in May filed a lawsuit alleging the Biden administration violated free speech rights by encouraging social media companies to delegitimize the publications. Funding for the center—about $61 million a year—could expire if Congress doesn’t reauthorize it later this year. If that happens, it would shut down amid continuing U.S. struggles with global perceptions and its own influence operations.

One-third of all US military will soon be AI-powered robots, predicts retired top army general

The integration of unmanned and AI-driven tools into the military represents a major evolution in how wars are fought. Milley pointed out that this shift will not be unique to the US; other nations are likely to design their militaries similarly.

NATO countries move to strengthen ability to collect, share space-based data 

Seventeen NATO members signed a memorandum of understanding for the Alliance Persistence Surveillance from Space (APSS) program as part of the annual NATO summit being held in Washington this week, the alliance announced Tuesday. Members will now move into a five-year implementation phase of the project, during which allies will contribute more than $1 billion “to leverage commercial and national space assets, and to expand advanced exploitation capacities,” according to a press release.

The UN’s got an AI plan

The group’s first recommendation, according to a draft report dated July 7 obtained by POLITICO’s Gian Volpicelli, is to create an independent international scientific panel similar to the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. The AI panel should examine the state of the science around the technology and determine where more research is needed, while also evaluating capabilities, opportunities, risk and uncertainties associated with AI, the experts said.

Microsoft, Google make moves amid regulators' AI scrutiny

Microsoft earlier this week dropped its seat as an observer on the board of ChatGPT creator OpenAI, in which it has invested $13 billion. Meanwhile, Apple has also decided not to join the AI vendor's board after previously considering it, and Google reportedly disbanded its machine learning privacy team. The moves come as U.K and European antitrust regulators look into the Microsoft-OpenAI alliance. In the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission is investigating big tech companies' investments in OpenAI and another independent GenAI vendor, Anthropic.

Dozens of federal agencies’ call data potentially exposed in AT&T breach

The pilfered data does not include the specific contents of the calls and text messages, nor times or dates of the conversations, but it does include records of interactions between AT&T phone numbers during the six-month period, including the total number of calls and texts, and the duration of calls. At least one person has already been arrested in connection with the breach.

Socure Joins Effort to Upgrade Login.gov Identity Verification

In its work under the NextGen Login.gov Identity Proofing BPA with Xcelerate, it will focus on supporting three key “Functional Areas”, including “Document Capture, Authentication, and Validation,” “Biometric Comparison,” and “Identity Resolution.”

Harnessing Machine Learning, AI And Green Skills For Increased Employability

According to the World Economic Forum's "The Future of Jobs Report 2020," an estimated 85 million jobs may be displaced by 2025 due to the growing interaction between humans and machines. However, this shift will also create 97 million new roles better suited to this evolving division of labor. These figures underscore a significant transformation in the global job market, driven by rapid technological advancements like machine learning (ML), artificial intelligence (AI) and an increasing focus on sustainability.

Here’s how machine learning can violate your privacy

Machine learning has pushed the boundaries in several fields, including personalized medicine, self-driving cars and customized advertisements. Research has shown, however, that these systems memorize aspects of the data they were trained with in order to learn patterns, which raises concerns for privacy.

Exiger Leads Market in AI-Driven Multi-Tier Visibility with Versed AI Acquisition

Born out of the University of Cambridge’s Language Technology Lab, Versed AI’s artificial intelligence technology accelerates the process of extracting and aggregating multi-tier supplier networks, creating automated bills of material and generating proprietary value chain graph data. The integration of Versed AI into Exiger’s award-winning supply chain management platform allows Exiger customers to rapidly expand multi-tier visibility with access to unrivaled advancements in supply chain tracing, orchestration and mapping.

The CISA Future Forward Series: Emerging Frontiers in Data Science, AI, and Post-Quantum Cryptography

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency’s (CISA) Office of the Chief Acquisition Executive (OCAE) is excited to host its July industry engagement event on Tuesday July 23, 2024, 1:00 to 2:00 pm ET. Join us as CISA experts engage in a moderated panel discussion on Data Science, Machine Learning, Natural Language Processing, and Post-Quantum Cryptography.

AI to the Edge

Artificial intelligence has endless potential for transformation at the edge. What can AI do to bolster efficiency, security, and decision-making? Join us to discover the vast ways AI can be applied at the edge and the implications bringing AI to the edge has for cybersecurity and privacy.

Election Security: Protecting the Foundation of Democracy - Access Granted

Join us as thought leaders from government and industry share their insights on the ways that IT, including using AI thoughtfully, can strengthen the entire voting process – the bedrock of our democracy.

DHS Industry Day Notice - Biometrics Collection Devices

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Office of Procurement Operations will conduct a hybrid (in-person and virtual) Biometric Collection Devices (BCDs) Industry Day in support of the DHS Office of Biometric Identity Management (OBIM) on July 29, 2024. The purpose of the Industry Day is to follow-up on the previously issued Requests for Information (RFI) and for the Department to share its vision for the BCD requirement.