DOD ODNI RFI: Intelligence Community (IC) Data Co-op (ICDC)

Notice ID: IARPA-RFI-24-07

(U) Submittal of White Paper(s) responses due by 09/10/2024. White Papers shall address capabilities that may scale to support complex data requirements.  Respondents shall submit the White Paper electronically to dni-iarpa-rfi-24-07@iarpa.gov See White Paper Submission Instructions section for more details.

(U) 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.

(U) 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.

(U) The Sponsor seeks an approach based on a repeatable data management [1] 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.

(U) Project Goals

(U) The data co-op operator should have established processes and infrastructure for receiving, structuring, enriching, sharing, and disposing of data. Desired experience includes the following:

• Working with the IC and Department of Defense or similar large consumers like federal, State or Local governments
• Navigating the breadth of commercial data providers
  • Identifying and vetting data vendors and evaluating data quality

• • • Potential commercial data providers should follow the Risk Management Framework (RMF), and when conducting the analysis of PII confidentiality impact level necessary to identify the applicable Privacy Overlays.  Leverage the ODNI’s Guidance for Intelligence Community Professionals: Properly Obtaining and Using Publicly Available Information.

• Establishing and managing current and future vendor relationships
• Negotiating and managing data acquisition and ensuring compliance with terms and conditions for use
• Establishing and managing an encryption secured and privacy enabled low-side data environment that is accessible by IC low and high side platforms
• Understanding the public sector to creatively negotiate the acquisition of the data to ensure best value at the lowest cost
• Grow and sustain repeatable experience in data acquisitions and life cycle management to properly accommodate the needs of the IC (i.e., the detail and coverage of the data being acquired enables the IC to answer their intelligence questions) …

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