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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 147 / Wednesday, August 4, 2021 / Notices NTIS on projects involving assistive technologies. JVPs selected under the instant notice will not be eligible to compete for assistive technology project opportunities with NTIS unless they also apply and are selected under the assistive technologies JVPs notice.
Organizations that enter into JVP
agreements with NTIS pursuant to the assistive technologies notice will not be eligible to compete for data innovation opportunities with NTIS unless they also apply and are selected under the instant notice. Organizations selected under the instant notice will be eligible to work with NTIS on projects involving the types of data innovation described in this notice.
The Secretary of Commerce Secretary has delegated to NTIS
authority to operate as a permanent clearinghouse of scientific, technical, and engineering information and to collect and disseminate such information. 15 U.S.C. 1152. The National Technical Information Act of 1988, codified at 15 U.S.C. 3704b, additionally accorded the Secretary, acting through NTIS, the authority to enter into joint ventures, and declared the clearinghouse to be a permanent Federal function that could not be privatized without Congressional approval. The National Technical Information Act of 1988 was amended by section 506c of the American Technology Preeminence Act of 1991
Pub. L. 102245, which directed NTIS
to focus on developing new electronic methods and media for information dissemination.
As the nature and scope of information and data dissemination have changed, NTIS has continued to focus on innovations to address these changes. New capabilities are available in application program interfaces APIs as conduits for data dissemination that have significantly improved data use, interoperability, and accessibility.
Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and predictive analytics are transforming how data are analyzed and managed to support national priorities in fraud detection, emergency preparedness, cybersecurity, citizen services, and in promoting health and public safety.
Using its joint venture authority, NTIS
has established a unique joint venture partnership program that has resulted in a number of innovative data service projects across the Federal government that allow other Federal agencies to address national priorities more efficiently and effectively.
Specifically, through NTIS joint venture partnership program, NTIS will 1 accelerate private-sector use of
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Federal government data, either alone or in combination with non-Federal data, for the development and use of new and improved data products and services, and 2 accelerate the Federal governments use of data to improve the effectiveness and efficiency of Federal programs and thus improve mission outcomes.
The NTIS joint venture partnership program enables NTIS to structure joint venture partnership agreements with the private sector and interagency agreements with Federal agencies that offer the best combination of speed, agile applications development, and performance for delivering integrated innovative data services and solutions.
NTIS manages joint venture projects in a highly flexible, interactive, and collaborative manner with its customer Federal agencies and JVPs throughout the project lifecycle.
Joint ventures are not procurements or acquisitions and do not result in contracts under the Federal Acquisition Regulation FAR. Joint ventures involve the investment of resources by NTIS and its JVPs, with a formal agreement for the sharing of revenues associated with the venture. The joint venture partnerships provide data services that allow customer Federal agencies to accelerate the time it takes to achieve mission outcomes. The joint venture partnerships accomplish this by using innovative and creative methods of collecting, connecting, accessing, securing, analyzing, disseminating and enabling effective and efficient use of Federal data and non-Federal data.
II. General Scope Technical Requirements Proposals must address at least one of the following two technical requirements by demonstrating the proposers capabilities to deliver datadriven innovations. The proposer must explicitly state in the proposal which areas are addressed.
1. Innovations in the use of data and data services to leverage data as a strategic asset to improve business processes and mission outcome. The proposal must include a description of how the proposer would contribute innovations in the use of data and data services. The scope of this area includes data science and engineering innovations and the ability to integrate and deliver complete data-driven solutions associated with a making it easier to use data through data cleansing and improved interoperability; b searching, discovering, combining, analyzing, disseminating, and using Federal government data, either alone or
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in combination with non-Federal data, in new ways; and c implementing innovative and secure data infrastructures to advance artificial intelligence AI and machine learning for enabling cybersecurity, and creating cloud based analytic data platforms that deliver capabilities for data analytics through highly scalable infrastructure.
2. Analysis, interpretation, and understanding of data, as well as meaningful application of the analysis and interpretation, to automate business processes, predict future events and prescribe potential solutions. The proposal must describe how the proposer would use AI, machine learning, and robotics to improve the analysis, interpretation, understanding, and application of either static or real time data to achieve innovations in business processes automation, supply chains, and overall mission outcome.
Additional Requirements NTIS will enter into joint venture partnership agreements in accordance with all relevant provisions of applicable Federal law. Any proposal that has the appearance of circumventing the FAR or other agency acquisition requirements will be determined to be non-responsive to this notice during the initial phase of the selection process and will not be considered further. Proposers must acknowledge and address the following terms in their proposals:
Data received from a Federal agency and from non-Federal organizations as part of a project performed by NTIS
with a JVP may only be accessed and utilized for project purposes consistent with all applicable statutory and regulatory provisions and all relevant agreements.
Federal agencies and private-sector organizations that provide data as part of a project performed by NTIS with a JVP will retain ownership of the data rights. Federal agencies and privatesector organizations may be requested to provide licenses to use the data for the purposes of a project.
At a minimum, systems, programs, and applications included in the proposal must comply with the documented security assessment and authorization A&A policies issued by the Office of Management and Budget OMB, standards and guidance issued by the National Institute of Standards and Technology NIST, and the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 FISMA 44 U.S.C. 3551 et seq., before the systems, programs, and applications are offered to Federal agencies under a joint venture partnership.

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