Artificial Intelligence (AI) holds great potential in transforming the Department of the Air Force (DAF) and Joint Force Command and Control (C2) capabilities across strategic, operational, and tactical levels by enabling decision makers to effectively assess the battlespace, rapidly explore, create, and select the best plan, and direct and monitor forces at pace and scale in a distributed setting.

The OCC requires a convenient, electronically accessible dataset consisting of Single Name CDS and CDS indices (CDX) data (Data Set).

For each country, city, or region listed in the SOW, provide a vendor name and contact information to include CAGE Code, past Government contract numbers, and SAM information (if available) for a minimum of five vendors providing that supply or service. If the listed locations do not have the commodities/services available, then the next closest location where that commodity/service is available should be found and reported.

The vendor will enable GRASP to use TomTom Enterprise GIS Data Products within GRASP map products, web-based applications, and analysis projects. GRASP will use the TomTom Enterprise GIS Data Product to support public health objectives in the areas of (1) environmental exposure analysis, (2) chronic and infectious disease surveillance, tracking, and reporting, and (3) emergency preparedness & response.

Date offers due extended to September 19, 2023.

Requirement has been cancelled.

Solicitation published.

Milestone schedule revised.

The Galveston District has a requirement to procure a web-based software subscription which provides confirmed and edited real estate sales and rental market data for the United States to provide property valuation services in support of the Galveston District.

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is interested in purchasing two (2) off-the-shelf economic data products that will be used by Corps practitioners in evaluating navigation improvement projects as well as for use in budgetary decision making.

The Government hereby submits a notice of intent to award a sole source firm fixed price contract for Law Enforcement Data Services - LEADS with the Illinois State Police. 

In addition to the Contractor’s commercial agricultural and commodity transportation data and forecast services subscription, USACE is also interested in supporting the Contractor’s hosting of three (3) Transportation Logistics Roundtable series over the course of a year.

The Department of Commerce is purchasing income flow data from The Earnest Analytics Company.

“Investing in research, development, and innovation is crucial for equipping DHS frontline workers and protecting our nation,” said Dr. Dimitri Kusnezov, DHS Under Secretary for Science and Technology. “Small businesses are essential to the DHS mission and a healthy economy. The SBIR Program enables DHS to reach small businesses and foster a culture of innovation that supports economic growth and benefits Americans.”

The Defense Contract Audit Agency (DCAA) has a requirement for a compensation executive pay subscription online tool and a compensation analysis market data survey subscription online tool for up to fifteen employees.

Information from pipeline informational postings and tariffs is needed for the Office of Enforcement to perform more effective Gas Surveillance. That data would enable us to analyze flows and pipeline capacity markets and would provide us a better picture of market participants' activities.

Taxpayer advocate highlights challenges for legit taxpayers tagged as fraudsters by the IRS

National Taxpayer Advocate Erin Collins, the head of an independent organization at the IRS meant to focus on taxpayer issues and rights, said in a recent blog post that as the agency looks to address increasing identity fraud, it also needs to do more to help any legitimate taxpayers whose returns are flagged as potentially being submitted by identity thieves.

HUD is way behind on a crucial data sharing, anti-fraud portal

Housing and Urban Development (HUD) is one of something like 30 agencies that have a hand in disaster recovery. In trying to avoid duplicating benefits to disaster victims, in 2017 HUD started work on a data portal. A place where grantees would load information on benefits the had already received, so HUD could see it. HUD’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) has found the data portal is only partially completed. The OIG also found questions about whether the portal is a high enough priority for HUD’s technology staff.

US Consumer Finance Watchdog Proposes New Restrictions on Data Brokers

The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) appears to have data brokers in its crosshairs, announcing that it is developing a new rules proposal for the industry. The agency has indicated that the new rules will limit what types of personal data can be sold, prevent disclosure of some sensitive information presently found in credit report headers, and provide consumers with a greater right of access to and correction of such data.

IARPA teases event for large language model vulnerability mitigation tools

The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Agency is crafting a new contract to examine what tools are available to address threats and vulnerabilities within the large language models that support artificial intelligence and machine learning tools. 

OSINT: Revolution or Renaissance?

In a recent podcast interview, “Optimizing OSINT for the Intelligence Community,” Randy Nixon, director of the Open Source Enterprise at the CIA, challenged the assertion that there is an ongoing OSINT revolution. Instead, Nixon described it as an OSINT renaissance.

California 'Delete Act' takes aim at data brokers that harvest and sell your personal information

California was on the cutting edge when it passed a digital privacy law in 2018, but one of the protections it granted has proved difficult for people to use. Though the law gives Californians the right to ask businesses to delete their personal information, it requires making the request one at a time to potentially hundreds of companies. That has made it hard for people to erase their digital footprints, especially because the law has exceptions that allow businesses to deny a deletion request.

PERSPECTIVE: 3 Steps from OSINT to AI to Help Stem the Tide of Mass Shootings

California was on the cutting edge when it passed a digital privacy law in 2018, but one of the protections it granted has proved difficult for people to use. Though the law gives Californians the right to ask businesses to delete their personal information, it requires making the request one at a time to potentially hundreds of companies. That has made it hard for people to erase their digital footprints, especially because the law has exceptions that allow businesses to deny a deletion request.

NYC Chief Analytics Officer Reflects on the City's Data Work

In the wake of the NYC Open Data Help Desk reaching the major data milestone of 10,000 inquiries since its inception, Chief Analytics Officer Martha Norrick shared her thoughts on the progress and what’s next.

Synthetaic Forms Five-Year Strategic Partnership With Microsoft for Next-Generation AI Data and Cloud Solutions

This partnership will help significantly accelerate innovation with Synthetaic’s key product, the Rapid Automatic Image Categorization (RAIC) tool. RAIC, built on Microsoft Azure, enables unparalleled search capabilities through automated data labelling, allowing for the exploration of massive global datasets, without the need for pretraining or structuring. RAIC was instrumental in the tracing of suspected Chinese balloon flights through 18 trillion pixels of Earth observation imagery without a pretrained model using a rough sketch and unlabeled data.

Equifax Helps Employers Streamline Unemployment Claim Process Through SIDES Determinations & Decisions Exchange Integration

Powered by the Equifax Cloud™, CaseBuilder is an on-demand claims management platform that helps employers simplify and streamline the unemployment case management process while helping more effectively manage unemployment taxes and the associated tax rate. With the new SIDES DD exchange integration, employers using CaseBuilder can now receive automated notifications of decisions impacting claimant eligibility and are often able to take quicker action when filing an appeal. 

Four Inc. and Chainalysis partner to bring Enhanced Blockchain Data Analysis to the Public Sector

Under the agreement, Four Inc. will provide Chainalysis' Blockchain Data platform to the public sector through Four Inc.'s NASA Solutions for Enterprise-Wide Procurement (SEWPV), Information Technology Enterprise Solutions - Software 2 (ITES-SW2) and its network of channel partners as part of Four Inc.'s boutique aggregation program. This partnership will empower agencies to leverage advanced blockchain data analytics and investigations to combat illicit activities and enhance their cybersecurity efforts.

Recorded Future invests in Hunt.io

On August 25, Boston, MA-based threat intelligence company Recorded Future announced a strategic investment in advanced adversary hunting company Hunt.io through The Intelligence Fund. The investment is a continued part of Recorded Future’s mission to support novel approaches to data collection and analysis.

Announcing DSI's 11th Annual Big Data for Intelligence Symposium

Data science and analytics community convening at the Big Data for Intelligence Symposium, taking place November 15-16, 2023, in National Harbor, MD.

ACI's Practical Guide to FCPA Data Analytics 2023

Join government, legal and compliance professionals, in the distinctly interactive forum. Hear industry leaders tell their data analytic story, from humble beginnings to their plans for the future, and gain practical blueprint and actionable takeaways.