On August 29, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) posted a request for information (RFI) for the Intelligence Community (IC) Data Co-op (ICDC). Responses are due by 12:00 p.m. Eastern on September 12.
On behalf of the ODNI, Office of Economic Security and Emerging Technologies (OESET), IC CDO, and OSINT IC Executive (hereafter referred to as the Sponsor), Respondents are hereby invited to submit white papers responsive to the problem set described below for the IC Data Co-op effort.
The Sponsor seeks to leverage a data co-op model to reduce the aggregate cost of Commercially Available Information (CAI) and Publicly Available Information (PAI) and accelerate and improve the IC’s acquisition of and access to CAI and PAI, while providing quality data management and maintaining adherence to legal and policy requirements for the acquisition and handling of that data.
A new CAI/PAI data acquisition approach is needed for the IC to overcome the acquisition and technical limitations of the current model’s rigid and siloed approach.
The Sponsor seeks an approach based on a repeatable data management plus civil liberties and privacy best practices to help integrate CAI/PAI data for the entire IC and make it available to the mission users in a more cohesive and effective manner by avoiding duplicative purchases and reducing the overall cost of acquiring, processing (including extracting, loading, transforming, structuring, and cleaning), enriching, and sharing the data.
The Sponsor seeks an enterprise approach to integrate information from commercial datasets and publicly available information by establishing a government-funded data co-op, which will serve as a clearinghouse for IC data requirements, a single focal point in negotiations with vendors, a compliance vehicle to ensure the IC’s use of the data complies with owners’ terms and conditions, and a mechanism to pool agency funds to gain access to targeted commercial data sets.
Review ODNI’s ICDC RFI.
Source: SAM
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