Welcome to Carpe Datum’s weekly newsletter, the Federal Data Prospector , the only publication of its kind dedicated exclusively to Data & Analytics companies that share our passion for serving the Public Sector. Our featured items begin with the FDA's Center for Drug Evaluation & Research (CDER) request for access to pharmaceutical sales data. Continued access to these data allows the FDA to respond expeditiously to questions relating to drug safety, regulatory impact, and shortage scenarios, helping the Agency to make more informed decisions about matters that affect the health of Americans.
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Department of Health & Human Services, Food and Drug Administration — Access to national-level pharmaceutical sales data and International level sales data to estimate and forecast trends in pharmaceutical sales, pricing, and volume of distribution throughout various settings of care - Provide FDA personnel with real-time, unlimited, immediate, direct, multi-user, desktop access to currently existing, commercially available pharmaceutical sales data. Updated information on sales shall be available at least as frequently as a monthly basis, and historical sales data shall also be available for trending and forecasting.
In other data news, on August 31st, Electronic Frontier Foundation published an article entitled, What is Fog Data Science? Why is the Surveillance Company so Dangerous? In this story, Matthew Guariglia describes how an investigation of location data brokers, conducted by his own organization, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), uncovered a widely-used mass surveillance technology by dozens of state and local law enforcement agencies.
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“Americans are accustomed to hearing about how the National Security Agency (NSA), the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), and even the domestically-focused Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have illegally swept up massive amounts of data on people living in the United States—but what about the state and local police? Fog Data Science LLC, a previously unknown company, provides law enforcement with easy and often warrantless access to the precise and continuous geolocation of hundreds of millions of unsuspecting Americans, collected through their smartphone apps and then aggregated by shadowy data brokers.”
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The Carpe Datum Team
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MTEC Pre-Announcement: Algorithm Development for Early Warning and Prediction of Chemical and Biological Threat Exposure Leveraging Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML) Approaches
Dept. of Defense
| The objective of this RPP is to implement artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) methods and analytics approaches that provide alerts to exposure to chemical and biological threats. | |
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GRASP Tom Tom GIS Data Product
Dept. of Health and Human Services
| This requirement provides for the offeror to enable GRASP to use TomTom Enterprise GIS Data Products within GRASP map products, web-based applications, and analysis projects. | |
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NOAA MBNMS Risk Assessment Analysis
Dept. of Commerce
| The National Oceanic Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary (MBNMS), has a requirement for Risk Assessment Analysis services. The contractor is to perform risk assessment to determine the reduction in risk under two management scenarios. | |
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SBIR/STTR Partnering Platform
Dept. of Energy
| The Department of Energy-Oak Ridge, TN is issuing this sources sought synopsis as a means of conducting market research to identify parties having an interest in, and the resources to develop and maintain an easily accessible, public facing platform that helps SBIR/STTR applicants and awardees (INNOVATORS) identify and engage with the myriad of partners required throughout technology development and productization. | |
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Market Research and Data Profile Subscription
General Services Administration
| Response date extended to Sept. 9, 2022. | |
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Patent-End-To-End SEARCH Artificial Intelligence RFI
Dept. of Commerce
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Managed Attribution Solution
Dept. of Defense
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Babel X Web-Based Software Licenses
Dept. of Defense
| In order to meet the Government’s mission, the Pentagon Force Protection Agency (PFPA) Investigations & Intelligence Division (IID) requires Babel Street Web-Based Software Licenses which is only provided by Babel Street, Inc. to support PFPA’s analysts in providing early detection and awareness on threatening communications to High Risk Personnel (DoDI O-2000.22) and the Pentagon Reservation mission. | |
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Veraset Movement Data One year Access
Dept. of Agriculture
| This Proposed Contract Action is published to notify potential sources that the Rocky Mountain Research Station intends to award a sole source firm-fixed price contract, on behalf of the USDA Forest Service, to Safegraph for the service items below. | |
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I.H.S. Global Sea-Web Online Subscription
Dept. of Defense
| The proposed contract action will provide Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC) the ability to support Integrated Booking System (IBS) inputs. | |
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C-SCRM Support - Bloomberg Anywhere Subscription
General Services Administration
| This requirement focuses on the analysis provided by the Bloomberg Anywhere subscription to include vital supply chain business intelligence data (e.g., information on foreign ownership or prohibited supply sources) critical to identify current vendors and/or potential offerors business relationships with prohibited entities. | |
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Department of Energy Announces $23.9 Million for Research on Next-Generation Data Management and Scientific Data Visualization
Dept. of Energy
| Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $23.9 million in funding for ten projects in advanced scientific data management and visualization. Foundational research in data management will address challenges stemming from the increasingly massive data sets produced by scientific experiments and supercomputers. | |
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NOAA Awards $10+ Million in Contracts to Ecopia AI
Dept. of Commerce
| Ecopia AI announced that it was awarded $10 million in contracts, with an additional $6 million in options, by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) to create high-precision mapping data which will support coastal landcover mapping and climate resilience initiatives. | |
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FCC Probe Reveals Mobile Carriers’ Data Management Practices are ‘All Over the Map’ | With states now free to enforce their own laws on the issue, federal regulators—including the Federal Trade Commission—have been on the lookout for online entities sharing location information that could incriminate or otherwise endanger patients seeking abortion services. | |
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Meet the guy who oversaw the recovery of more than a billion dollars of stolen pandemic relief | The government showed how fast it could spend money when Congress printed trillions for pandemic relief. Well, now it’s the morning after. | |
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Artificial Intelligence, Critical Systems, and the Control Problem | Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming our way of life from new forms of social organization and scientific discovery to defense and intelligence. This explosive progress is especially apparent in the subfield of machine learning (ML), where AI systems learn autonomously by identifying patterns in large volumes of data. | |
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The Rockefeller Foundation Invests in Satellite Data & AI to Accelerate Economic Development | The Rockefeller Foundation announced a new $5.5 million collaboration with e-GUIDE and Atlas AI to accelerate economic development and promote climate resilient infrastructure investment across sub-Saharan Africa. | |
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Pa. lawmakers say people need more power over their data | What’s at issue, according to Collett, are sales of things such as a person’s financial and medical data, birth date, address, cellphone number and family members’ names. | |
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OMB seeks feedback on plans to bridge federal 'data divide' hampering equity goals | The Office of Management and Budget is launching public listening sessions as part of its ongoing work to set new standards for collecting federal statistical data on race and ethnicity. | |
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Transforming Government With Data | Efforts underway at OEI reflect the growing appeal of using analytics and artificial intelligence to democratize the power of data. Tennessee is one of many states across the U.S. that are driving a cultural shift that’s transforming how government agencies engage and serve the public. | |
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AI, Machine Learning a must in the face of cyber threats | As networks continue to expand, so do opportunities to exploit them, increasing the need for artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) tools to bolster security efforts. | |
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Babel Street Launches Groundbreaking Insight APIs | Babel Street, the world's leading AI-enabled data-to-knowledge company, today announced the immediate availability of three new Insight APIs that allow customers and partners to incorporate data onto any chosen platform. | |
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Data analytics startup StarTree secures cash to expand its Apache Pinot–powered platform | StarTree, a company building what it describes as an "analytics-as-a-service" platform, today announced that it raised $47 million in a Series B round led by GGV Capital with participation from Sapphire Ventures, Bain Capital Ventures, and CRV. | |
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Exiger Acquires Supply Dynamics | Exiger, the leading SaaS supply chain risk management, third-party risk management and compliance company, announced today that it has acquired Supply Dynamics, the industry’s most sophisticated supply chain collaboration platform for tracking, tracing and choreographing the purchase and supply of subcontracted products, parts, raw materials and ingredients. | |
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Ethical issues of facial recognition technology | Facial recognition technology has entered the mass market, with our faces now able to unlock our phones and computers. While the ability to empower machines with the very human ability to identify a person with a quick look at their face is exciting, it’s not without significant ethical concerns. | |
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DCSA opens ‘front door’ to next-gen background investigation system | The “front door” to the National Background Investigation Services software program is open, with a new portal for submitting security clearance applications up and running, according to the head of the NBIS program. | |
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Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI) Multiple Award Contract (MAC) | The Digital Analytics Infrastructure and Technology Advancement (DAiTA) Group, at the Naval Air Warfare Center – Aircraft Division, Patuxent River, MD is hosting a virtual industry day in relation to upcoming competitive opportunities. | |
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2022 Association of Public Data Users' Annual Conference -- Sept 20th, 2022 | Attend the 2022 APDU Annual Conference to learn more about the future of public data – attendees will hear from leaders such as Census Bureau Director Rob Santos. Join us for a networking lunch and happy hour at the end of the day to reconnect with peers. | |
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