Welcome to Carpe Datum’s Federal Data Prospector (Vol. 3, Issue 19) newsletter. On a weekly basis, we try to survey the world of Data & Data Analytics companies in order to provide this highly curated listing of news stories and germane developments that are particularly relevant to those firms that share a passion for the Public Sector. Likewise, we also feature Carpe Datum’s exclusive selection of current federal government contracting opportunities, exclusively tailored to businesses who operate in either (you guessed it!) the data or the data analytics industries.
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Request for Information (RFI) – The Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (DCSA) -- Sources Sought Announcement for Analytical Capability to Link Data to Identify Risk in the Commercial Financial Community for Domestic and International Companies – The systems technologies will be capable of providing early indications and warnings of potential emerging biological threats and will assess technology capability to identify, accumulate and synthesize relevant data from open sources into timely and operationally actionable information. Data types include, but are not limited to, infectious diseases, zoonotic diseases, plant pathogens and surrogate secondary information, excess mortality, increase in hospitalizations, bio security threat information, surge in prescriptions, etc.
- “The Protecting Americans’ Data from Foreign Surveillance Act would first categorize the types of personal data people generate each day, and identify which data types could be used by foreign adversaries to the detriment of the U.S. In establishing the categories, regulators would be instructed to look at data collected by commercial entities; data that has already been shared with foreign adversaries; and both identifiable and anonymized data, if the latter can be reverse engineered using other data sources."
The Carpe Datum Team
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Industry Day: Repository for Analytics in a Virtualized Environment (RAVEn)
Dept. of Homeland Security
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The purpose of this Industry Day is to communicate program status and acquisition strategy intent in order to elicit industry feedback and engagement as a means of maximizing competition... |
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Geospatial Parcel Data
Dept. of Agriculture
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The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), Wildlife Services (WS) is working in conjunction with a third-party vendor to develop a program wide data collection system incorporating both mobile and desktop solutions... |
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Request for Information (RFI) for Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning
Dept. of Defense
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The Army Contracting Command on behalf of Project Manager Intelligences Systems & Analytics (PM IS&A) is issuing this RFI as a means of conducting market research to identify potential sources having interest and industry technologies available to support/provide Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning solutions... |
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RFI21-5004- DLA SHIPMENT DATA MANAGEMENT SERVICE/TOOL
Dept. of Defense
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DLA Research & Development is distributing this request for information (RFI) to those with expertise in providing potential solutions such as transportation management software, real-time transportation visibility platforms, as well as tools for EDI and API format data standardization for unstructured data... |
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Data Readiness for Artificial Intelligence Development (DRAID) Services; Basic Ordering Agreement (BOA) for The Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC)
Dept. of Commerce
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Solicitation Updated - April 14 |
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NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Synopsis for Support for Atmospheric Sciences, Modeling and Data Assimilation II (SAMDA II)
Dept. of Defense
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Presolicitation Updated - April 16, 202 |
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2021 Global Needs Statement
Dept. of Defense
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Special Notice Updated - April 14, 2021 |
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National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) 2021 Artificial Intelligence (AI) / Machine Learning (ML) Information Day
Dept. of Homeland Security
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Responses to Q&A - April 16, 2021 |
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Rapid Response Biosurveillance Data Subscription
Social Security Administration
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The purpose of this requirement is to support the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Countering Weapons of Mass Destruction (CWMD) National Biosurveillance Integration Center (NBIC) through the procurement of subscription and support services for nationwide pre-hospital human health care data.
See attached Sole Source Justification...
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Subscription to Politico Pro
Dept. of Defense
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NASA/NSSC intends to issue a sole source contract to Politico, LLC under the authority of FAR 13.106-1(b)(1)(i). It has been determined that Politico, LLC is the sole provider of Subscription to Politico Pro... |
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INTENT TO SOLE SOURCE - NAPHSIS EVVE FOD SUBSCRIPTION
Dept. of Defense
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Under the authority of FAR 6.302-1, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Bureau of the Fiscal Service (Fiscal Service) intends to make award on a sole source basis to the National Association for Public Health Statistics and Information Systems (NAPHSIS), for a subscription to the NAPHSIS Electronic Verification of Vital Events (EVVE) Facts Of Death (FOD) system... |
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Notice of Intent to Sole Source -- Master Sub Servicers (MSS) Data Standardization
Dept. of Defense
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This is a notice to solicit and award a sole source contract under statutory authority 10 USC 2304(c)(1), set forth in Federal Acquisition Regulation 6.302-1, Only One Responsible Source and No Other Supplies or Services Will Satisfy Agency Requirements... |
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IDEMIA to Deliver INTERPOL’s New Multi-Biometric Identification System |
Following the renewal of an existing contract, IDEMIA will deliver INTERPOL’s new multi-biometric identification system that will usher in enhanced capabilities such as higher matching accuracy and more user-friendly interfaces... |
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National Archives Wants to Use AI to Improve ‘Unsophisticated Search’ and Create ‘Self-Describing Records’ |
The National Archives and Records Administration wants to automate its records management processes to limit manual metadata tagging while improving the search function... |
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USCIS Automating Pre-Processing of Immigration Cases |
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services is focused on automating functions that will help pre-process immigration cases for adjudication, according to CTO Rob Brown... |
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Self-service analytics a ‘game changer’ for the Air Force |
The Air Force’s cross-domain platform that lets service members use cloud-based tools to work on data has been a game-changer, the Air Force’s chief data officer said... |
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DARPA Needs Help Securing Its Programs From Foreign Influence and Malicious Insiders |
The agency works on the most advanced tech research on the planet, often with critical national security implications... |
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Solving the basic problems of machine learning |
According to Stonebraker, data scientists spend too much time cleaning up data and not enough time on the analysis... |
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Machine learning can help keep the global supply chain moving |
TechRepublic's Karen Roby spoke with Noel Calhoun, CTO of Interos, an artificial intelligence supply chain solution, about AI in the supply chain. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation...
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How Healthcare Companies Can Get their Data Monetization Strategy Right |
Robust data analytics and AI capabilities will empower companies to get the best out of their data, generate relevant insights, and maximize value...
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Informatica modernizes iPaaS platform using microservices and AI |
At its online Informatica World event today, Informatica announced a cloud platform that employs microservices and an AI engine to combine data management capabilities and enable data and application programming interface (API) integration...
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Grid.ai Launches Platform to Train Machine Learning Models in the Cloud |
Grid.ai, creators of the popular open-source framework Pytorch Lightning, announced today the general availability of Grid, a new platform that enables researchers and data scientists to train AI models on the cloud at scale, from a laptop with zero code changes... |
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Cloudera Collaborates with NVIDIA to Accelerate Data Analytics and AI in the Cloud |
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Thomson Reuters Uses Pondera in New Anti-Fraud Tool |
The new software combines a huge database for verifying identity with AI-powered tools meant to comb them, looking for fraud and irregularities. And it's found an early user in California, which was at the center of a massive unemployment insurance fraud scheme last year... |
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