VOLUME 3. ISSUE 18.

Welcome to Carpe Datum’s Federal Data Prospector (Vol. 3, Issue 18) newsletter. Although not planned as such, this week’s issue of our newsletter appears to be focused on the U.S. Federal Government’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic. For our regular readers, you will know that this is not a new topic for us, but the two items highlighted below are very compelling and hopefully very relevant for almost every member of fast-growing community of companies who share a passion for data, analytics and the public sector marketplace.   As always, please share our newsletter with anyone you cares about Data or Data Analytics or Government Contracting – bonus if they care about all three! - Click here to sign-up.    Request for Information (RFI) – U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command, Chemical Biological Center (DEVCOM CBC) -- Biosurveillance Tools for Early Warning of Infectious Outbreaks – 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.   In other data news, on April 7th, FedScoop published an interesting article entitled, NIH’s COVID-19 data enclave continues to evolve with the virus.  In this article, Dave Nyczepir describes how technology linking patient records across data sources while preserving their privacy is being prototyped by the National Institutes of Health as researchers attempt to understand the evolving COVID-19 virus and its variants.   “The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences within NIH launched the largest COVID-19 dataset in the U.S., the National COVID Cohort Collaborative (N3C) Data Enclave, in April. And now NCATS wants to use privacy-preserving record linkage (PPRL) to link data from its enclave with medical images, omics tools, electronic health records (EHRs), and social determinants of health to answer researchers’ lingering questions like why COVID-19 symptoms linger in some patients." The Carpe Datum Team

Tobacco Commercial Marketing & Sale Data Dept. of Health and Human Services As a result of the Request for Proposal, the Government intends to obtain tobacco-related secondary sales data (including, but not limited to, retail scanner data, deidentified household purchasing data, and online purchasing data)...

NASA - Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) Synopsis for Support for Atmospheric Sciences, Modeling and Data Assimilation II (SAMDA II) NASA NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC) plans to issue a DRAFT Request for Proposal (RFP) for the Support for Atmospheric, Modeling and Data Assimilation (SAMDA II) procurement...

Peer to Peer Residential Data Dept. of Commerce The business goal of this Notice is to determine if businesses are capable of providing the required peer to peer rental data...

News Monitoring Services Dept. of Defense The 410th Contracting Support Brigade/Regional Contracting Office – Miami is issuing this sources sought synopsis as a means of conducting market research to identify parties having an interest in and the resources to support the requirement for News Monitoring Services...

National Marine Fisheries Service International Affairs and Seafood Inspections International Trade Data Subscription - Dept. of Commerce Request for Information - Services to Electronically Transmit Airline Data - Dept. of Homeland Security Tariff Database - ITA Meteorological Data Collection and Reporting System (MDCRS) - Dept. of Commerce Quantum Benchmarking - DARPA Request for Information - Biometric Enabled Intelligence (BEI) - Dept. of Defense Robotic Process Automation Monitoring - FAA R--Purchase additional year of construction data quar - Dept. of Labor

PURCHASE OF CREDIT CARD, DEBIT CARD, OR SIMILAR TRANSACTION DATA Dept. of Commerce TORP_Clauses_Amendment, QA Updates - April 7, 2021

Air Force DCGS Requirements Support Services (ADReSS) Dept. of Defense Sources Sought Updated - April 5, 2021

interoperable Medical Automated Systems (iMAS) Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Algorithm Development for interoperable Algorithms for Care and Treatment (iACT) Dept. of Defense Announcement Amendment - April 8, 2021

Transportation Security Innovative Concepts Broad Agency Annoucement Dept. of Homeland Security Special Notice Updated -April 5, 2021

FDA-21-RFQ-1238432 Access to Food and Cosmetic Product & Packaging Database - FDA NCSES Technical and Analytical Support Services - National Science Foundation SECURE DATA EXCHANGE AND CLEARINGHOUSE SERVICES - OCAO - Dept. of Health and Human Services

IHS Markit Global Output and Trade Data Social Security Administration The National Science Foundation (NSF) and NSF’s National Center for Science and Engineering Statistics (NCSES) intends to make an award to IHS Markit to procure information on global output and trade data...

Notification of the SEC's Intent to Award a Sole Source Purchase Order for news and database subscription to Asset-Backed Securities and Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities Dept. of Defense The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) intends to use the procedures of FAR Part 13.501(a) to award a fixed-price purchase order on a sole source basis to Green Street Advisors, LLC for subscription to global news and statistics on asset-backed and mortgage-backed securitization activities and commercial mortgage-backed securities...

Notice of Intent for Subscription/Publication Services Dept. of Defense MA-64 intends to solicit and negotiate with S&P Global, Inc., doing business as (dba) S&P Global Platts, in accordance with 41 U.S.C.1901 or the authority of 41 U.S.C.1903...

Sole Source WIFIA Municipal Financial Data & News - EPA Intent to Sole Source Subscription Requirement - Dept. of Defense

National Nuclear Security Administration awards $89.9M deal to Palantir for safety platform The agency that maintains the U.S. nuclear weapons stockpile wants to allocate its employees and finances with safety in mind using a new data platform developed by Palantir...

1Spatial plc - Multiyear contract with Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) 1Spatial, a global leader in Location Master Data Management (LMDM) software and solutions, is delighted to announce that, following a competitive tender and in collaboration with Version 1 (a global leader in IT services and solutions), it has signed a multiyear contract with Defra to provide a managed service for Rural Payments Agency's (RPA) Customer Portal and Land Management System (LMS)...

LeoStella sees opportunity to work with SDA The Pentagon’s space agency is making an approach to buy satellites in an unusual way, rather than selecting a particular manufacturer, the SDA is planning to buy batches of satellites from different vendors to form the entire constellation...

CACI wins $700M DHS contract for national security investigations VA-based CACI International Inc announced that it has been awarded a five-year, multiple-award Blanket Purchase Agreement (BPA) by the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), with a $700 million total federal program value, to provide national security investigations to the department...

The Biggest Agency and Program Winners in Biden’s FY 2022 Budget President Biden on Friday put forward a preliminary budget proposal for fiscal 2022, outlining funding priorities that would comprise a substantial 16% increase in discretionary spending at non-defense agencies...

Kevin Murphy Selected as Chief Science Data Officer In his current role as the NASA Earth Science Data Systems (ESDS) Program executive, he oversees the 48 petabytes (PB) of data in NASA’s Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) collection...

Army wants to clean up biometric ID data The Defense Department’s Automated Biometric Identification System is required to accept biometric data from across DOD, and some of this data comes from legacy collection systems that include poor-quality images or inaccuracies...

Data community asks OMB to remember data funding in fiscal 2022 Members of the data community urged the Office of Management and Budget to include data infrastructure funding in its fiscal 2022 budget proposal in a letter sent by the Data Coalition...

Military-wide data requirements document coming soon, Joint Chiefs’ Hyten says DOD bets big on financial data to improve business performance Fed Officials Preach Standardizing Both Data Architecture, Processes

Big Data Analytics: The Secret Tool Behind Covax and Vaccine Passport Ever since WHO declared Covid-19 as a pandemic, technology has been at every end of detecting, tracking, and treating people...

What if Big Data Helped Judges Decide Exactly What Words Mean? The precision and promise of a data-driven society has stumbled these past years, serving up some disturbing—even damning—results: facial recognition software that can’t recognize Black faces, human resource software that rejects women’s job applications, talking computers that spit racist vitriol...

Predictive Analytics Tool Forecasts Future COVID-19 Surges The predictive analytics tool can help accelerate response times for businesses, government officials, and healthcare organizations...

Researchers Eye Machine Learning to Secure IoT Data A federated learning model offers new possibilities for keeping information collected from the Internet of Things anonymous and private...

Jumio Turns to iProov for Liveness Detection Jumio has partnered with iProov in an effort to speed up its onboarding procedures and improve its liveness detection capabilities. To that end, the company has now integrated iProov’s Liveness Assurance and Genuine Presence Assurance into its own Jumio KYX remote onboarding solution...

Now it was LinkedIn's turn: hackers sell data from 500 million users in a forum Social networks are among the favorite sources of hackers to extract information from Internet users...

Accenture Acquires Core Compete, Expands Capabilities and Talent in AI-powered Supply Chain, Cloud and Data Science Accenture (NYSE: ACN) has acquired Core Compete, a cloud analytics services firm headquartered in Durham, North Carolina, with additional offices in the UK and India...

Drive an Intelligent Cloud Migration with Tamr, intelia and Google Cloud in 2021 For a limited time, Tamr and intelia are offering six months of free Tamr software, powered by Google Cloud, licensing for new AuNZ customers ready to master their B2B customer and supplier data in the cloud and accelerate business-driven cloud migration strategies...

Dish Media, Blockgraph and more form TV data collective Palantir jumps 6% after securing 5-year contract with National Nuclear Security Administration IDEMIA Collaborates with Microsoft to Deliver Secure, Digital Verified Credentials Solution New to AI Adoption? Don’t Let Data be Your Achilles Heel Geospark Analytics uses 6.8 million data sources to track global threats every 15 minutes Thomson Reuters announces ID Risk Analytics to fight government fraud | Thomson Reuters CipherTrace Wants to Introduce DEXs to Sanctions Compliance LSR Q+A: TransUnion Jumps Into Gaming Touting Data Security Expertise Tyler Technologies buys teacher tracking, veterans' claims software firms ResoluteAI unveils new tools to streamline post market surveillance and pharmacovigilance research Experian and Neonomics join forces to streamline access to data and affordability calculations Verato Accelerates Growth in Public Health Sector with Key Partnerships Across the Country LiveRamp Enters into Strategic Partnership with Google Cloud to Enable Identity in the Cloud

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