TSA looking for real time data mining of tweets and other PAI This new TSA opportunity in my inbox this morning caught my attention.  Follows a slew of similar projects from the DoD and IC.  Building the Orwell future.  Problem is, these agencies are too stupid to do this work themselves and need industry to bring it to them. Pasting the notice here rather than linking to.gov domain. Department of Homeland Security Transportation Security Administration Real Time Event Detection Subscription Services SCOPE: TSA requires the subscription to a real time event detection and alerting platform that utilizes social media (publicly available information). This tool shall have the ability to mitigate security threats to the transportation system and to improve information driven operations with increased information sharing across the organization. The software shall have access to all publicly available tweets in real time. Your capability statement must include a discussion on your products real time notification, and, to the extent applicable, provide documentation showing that you are a Twitter Official Data Partner. Your product must have the following technical requirements: 1. At least a five (5) year archive of all publicly available tweets 2. Detect, distill and correlate information on real time events across multiple publicly available information sources 3. Users don't rely on knowledge or use of keywords 4. Translates alerts from over 75 languages into plain English while retaining the ability to see the original untranslated text 5. Alerting 6. Real time alert display and sourcing 7. Event Location, keywords and timeframe 8. Security 9. Queries 10. Reporting 11. Standard initial user training RESPONSE INFORMATION: In order for the TSA to improve its understanding of market capabilities and identify qualified vendors that are capable of providing the required services, a Contractor's Capabilities Statement is requested. Your capability statement must (1) identify your company's capabilities to meet the requirements identified in the above Scope and Technical Requirements, (2) include a discussion on your products real time notification, and (3) explain how your software provides access to all publicly available tweets in real time and, to the extent applicable, provide documentation showing that you are a Twitter Official Data Partner. This statement must include your company's Full Company Name, DUNS Number, Company Point of Contact, mailing address and phone number, Current Business Size (i.e., small business, 8(a), woman owned, veteran owned, etc.), and what experience you have providing similar and/or same services. The capabilities statement shall not exceed four (4) pages in length and shall be in either PDF or MS Word Format. Please send responses with a subject heading of "Subscription Services" Send your capability statements to Contract Specialist Jakya Brooks at jakya.brooks@tsa.dhs.gov and Contracting Officer Gloria Uria at gloria.uria@tsa.dhs.gov by 10:00 AM Eastern Time on October 30, 2019. Please send any questions to the same e-mail addresses. Telephone responses will not be accepted.