IC Technology & Cyber — 2026-11-02

ODNI Seeks Economic Data Platform to Support Intelligence Community Economic Security Mission

BLUFODNI's move to consolidate economic data under a single platform signals an institutional bid to own the IC's economic security analytic baseline, though the survey commits no resources and may not advance beyond market exploration.

ODNI's Office of Economic Security and Emerging Technologies released a market survey on October 26 seeking industry input on a data platform that would ingest, organize and correlate unclassified economic and financial information from commercial and public sources 12. The platform, designated FLOW, would support economic security, foreign investment, sanctions and supply chain analysis across the intelligence community, with ODNI describing it as the government's primary reference point for the broader economy 23. Washington Technology reported that ODNI's primary goals are data management and integration, automated entity resolution linking records across naming variants, and bulk access through APIs, with interested contractors required to complete a capability matrix and submit a 15-page response by November 16 2.

Analysis
ODNI's FLOW survey would make the office the integrator of an economic intelligence capability that does not yet exist as a unified platform, consolidating fragmented commercial data purchases across IC agencies into a single reference architecture. The survey does not commit ODNI to a procurement, and the 15-page response format points to early-stage market exploration rather than imminent contracting. Confidence is high, because Nextgov and Intelligence Community News each independently describe the SAM.gov posting, and CDO Magazine and Washington Technology add consistent detail on goals and the November 16 deadline. That sourcing converges on one government document, however, so it confirms the survey's existence, not ODNI's intent. The survey may instead be a routine refresh of data procurement authority, since a market survey is frequently the end of a process rather than its start.

3 sources

ODNI issues FLOW market survey - Intelligence Community News
ODNI seeks economic data platform - Nextgov/FCW
ODNI Seeks Data Platform to Unify Economic and Financial Intelligence - CDO Magazine