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VOLUME 3. ISSUE 35.
Welcome to Carpe Datum’s weekly newsletter, the Federal Data Prospector (Vol. 3, Issue 35). August is underway and, sadly, the Tokyo Summer Olympic Games just concluded; however, as we predicted last week, the volume of exciting data-related Federal Government contracting opportunities is starting to really ramp up. Likewise, the M&A activity within our industries seems to be hitting a fever pitch at this point as well. Dig into this week’s newsletter to learn more about all of the above!
 
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In other data news, on August 5th, yahoo!finance published an interesting article entitled, How Blockchain Will Enable The World's First Equitable Data Economy.  In the article, the author, Charles Silver, describes how in our data-based economy, interacting on social networks, filling out surveys, reading news stories online and clicking the Buy button on e-commerce sites all count as “data labor,” according to a range of economists, universities and other organizations surveyed by MIT Technology Review and Omidyar Network.
 
  • “The government is also a big data harvester. Federal, state and local agencies collect and store user data in the form of demographic information, motor vehicle and driving data, professional and recreational licenses, voter registration records, and court records. Some of it the government sells … tech giants are having all the fun today, because they are the ones making all the money from the data harvesting. Blockchain—brought to us by private sector innovators—will enable consumers to hold, trade and profit off their data for the first time. It won’t be long until we’re all having fun online.”

The Carpe Datum Team
Artificial Intelligence Integration Center (AI2C) - Transformative Artificial Intelligence Research and Applications Broad Agency Announcement (BAA)
Dept. of Defense
The Army Artificial Intelligence Integration Center (AI2C) is seeking artificial intelligence research and development whitepapers and proposals in support of new technologies and translational research-based approaches that support the identification, alignment, and exploitation of basic, applied, and advanced research and technology...
FDA-21-RFQ-1246411 CAPA System Development
Dept. of Health and Human Services
The contractor shall review postmarket surveillance data sources collected by the CDRH during the medical device life cycle, identify the data mining and cleaning efforts needed to structure or efficiently use the key data fields...
EcoSystemic
Dept. of Defense
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) is issuing an Artificial Intelligence Exploration (AIE) Opportunity, inviting submissions of innovative basic research concepts in the technical domain of consistency in federated data stores...
Mortgage Origination and Prepayment Reports Subscription, and Ad Hoc Customization Services
Federal Housing Finance Agency
Please find attached the Request for Quote (RFQ) and its associated attachments...
JUSTIFICATION LIMITED SOURCE SUBSCRIPTION SERVICES
Dept. of Housing and Urban Development
Limited Justification - August 5, 2021
Global Market Research Reports (GMRR)
USAF
Solicitation Amendment - August 2, 2021
Pilot IRS Informational Posting
IRS
Sources Sought Update - July 16, 2021
National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency, Boosting Innovative GEOINT - Research, Broad Agency Announcement (NGA BIG-R BAA)
NGA
Solicitation Updated - August 4, 2021
LexisNexis Subscription
Export-Import Bank of the US
This is a Special Notice of Intent to award a sole source Firm Fixed-Price contract to LexisNexis located at 1150 18th Street NW Washington DC 20036...
Data Resource Verification and Data Access Licenses
Dept. of Commerce
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) intends to negotiate, on a sole source basis, under the authority of FAR 6.302-1, with Dun and Bradstreet, for subscription services to be used by the NIST Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership (MEP)...
Notice of Intent to Sole Source for Mergent Fixed Income Database (FISD)
Dept. of the Treasury
The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, hereby gives notice of their intent to award a contract to Mergent, Inc., 580 Kingsley Park Drive, Fort Mill, SC 29715-6403, on a sole source basis...
Data on Sub-national Activity in the U.S. Construction Industry
Dept. of Commerce
The Office of the Secretary intends to award a Sole Source contract for the Bureau of Economic to Dodge Data & Analytics LLC, Hamilton, New Jersey, to provide two data files containing information about construction industry activity at the sub-national level in the United States...
Maxar extends NRO contract
On August 4, Westminster, CO-based Maxar Technologies announced the U.S. National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) has exercised the second of three, one-year options on the company’s existing EnhancedView Follow-On (EVFO) service level agreement...
DHS Science & Technology - Silicon Valley Innovation Program - 9/14-9/17/2021
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate (S&T) Silicon Valley Innovation Program (SVIP) is keeping pace with the innovation community to tackle the hardest problems faced by DHS and the Homeland Security Enterprise...
How data can help reduce transportation inequity
To comply with President Joe Biden’s executive order on racial equity, the Department of Transportation requested information on best practices, data and assessment tools that could help analyze whether its transportation-based policies and programs enable equitable access to services...
Pentagon believes its precognitive AI can predict events 'days in advance'
The US military's AI experiments are growing particularly ambitious...
US Treasury's Financial Crimes Unit Names New Acting Head
Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) Acting Director Michael Mosier today announced he will depart FinCEN at the end of the week for a new opportunity, after serving as the organization’s acting director...
3 steps to accelerating data readiness at federal agencies
As data proliferates in the government, many organizations are starting to focus on how data readiness can ensure better mission outcomes...
Redesigning services using timely customer data, analytics and insights
Local governments, as noted, have opportunities to change how they work using technology...
Building a resilience framework from phone location data
To get better information on how well a community is recovering from a disaster, researchers at Texas A&M University have developed a mathematical framework that tracks fluctuations in a population's activity during a natural disaster to determine its level of resilience...
FiscalNote announces acquisition of ESG software company Equilibrium
Singapore-based Equilibrium develops Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) management automation software enabling enterprises to improve ESG performance, reporting and benchmarking leveraging data and AI...
Crowdsourcing Platform Owler Sold to Meltwater BV
The leading global software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider Meltwater BV is pulling crow-sourcing company Owler as the third to its acquisition list.
FICO Extends Distribution Agreement with TransUnion for FICO® Score in Canada
Global analytics software provider FICO, today announced that it has extended a multi-year agreement with TransUnion of Canada, Inc. to distribute FICO® Scores to lenders, consumers and additional businesses in Canada...
Exclusive: Data group DueDil to merge with Artesian Solutions after failing to raise funding
London-based data provider DueDil yesterday announced it is entering a “strategic partnership” with software firm Artesian Solutions, however AltFi can exclusively reveal that this is actually a merger...
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