Non-Generative AI use for Trust Information Analysis and Reporting Tool [2024 INV#WO0000000110516]

When records are scanned, both front and back pages are captured, even though back pages are generally blank. For Department of Justice litigation or other records research and di…

Automate Project Execution of FI&R (Facilities Improvement and Repair) Projects

Strategically prioritize Facilities Improvement and Repair (FI&R) projects based on a set of criteria developed in concert with policy, customer need, and capacity. Project fundin…

BIA-GEO Assist

The Branch of Geospatial Support (BOGS) and Regional Geospatial Coordinators (RGCs) offer technical support to BIA and Tribal GIS users that participate in the DOI Enterprise Lice…

IA Tribal Consultation Clearinghouse

The Tribal Consultation Clearinghouse is envisioned by Indian Affairs (business owner) as a centralized, user-friendly webpage that enhances the accessibility of Tribal consultati…

Effects of vehicle traffic on space use and road crossings of caribou in the Arctic [2024 INV#WO0000000110111]

Assessing the effects of industrial development on wildlife is a key objective of managers and conservation practitioners. However, wildlife responses are often only investigated…

DiscoverDOI

Users need to find outdated content or prohibited content on DOI websites

Anomaly Detection for Financial Transactions Related to DOI Programs

Use traditional machine analytics with difficult-to-manually-analyze financial data for DOI programs to create analytical methods that are scalable and repeatable. Additionally, t…

ePermits: Cognitive Search Capability

Current native search capabilities don't offer semantic search features that understand user intent and content meaning.

ePermits: Chatbot Implementation and Permit Application Wizard Tools

Users face significant difficulties when interacting with the system due to a lack of personalized experiences, delayed and imprecise query responses, poor application form guidan…

Comprehensive Condition Assessment

Find deficiencies in our real property assets and to formulate reports from field and machine gathered data for the purpose of making a deferred maintenance backlog and for capita…

AI data harvesting project – ECOSphere [2024 INV#DOI-62]

How can we automate the extraction, classification, and transformation of heterogeneous species-related files (e.g., PDFs, Word docs, Excel sheets, images) uploaded by biologists…

The tool streamlines the process of gathering open-source data from a variety of online sources to improve operational efficiency.

Performance Modeling / Performance Forecasting

Estimating the number or requests that can be processed by a FOIA processor or bureau each year.

FOIA Request Conceptual Similarity Tool (Semantic Similarity Score Generation)

Identifying contextually similar FOIA requests received by the department.

FOIA Request Clustering Tool (Embedding based clustering alongside Term Frequency – Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF))

Identifying FOIA requests that share lexical and/or semantic similarity.

Enabling FOIA Request Clustering Capability in the Document Review Platform (Density Based Algorithm alongside Term Frequency – Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF))

Identifying Contextually Similar FOIA Requests. Developed in house is selected because while the document review platform is used it is not an out of the box functionality.

FOIA Request Lexical Similarity Tool in the Document Review Platform (Term Frequency – Inverse Document Frequency (TF-IDF) - Cosine)

Identifying Similar FOIA Requests

Microsoft eDiscovery Attorney-Client Privilege Detection

Identifying information subject to a FOIA exemption.

Document Review Platform Generative AI

FOIA Request Processing is the resource intensive step of the process that would benefit from AI assistance and optimization.

FOIA Record Pre-Review Tool

Records review is a the resource intensive step of FOIA request processing that would most benefit from AI assistance and optimization.

Atlas.ti (Qualitative Data Analysis Software)

Existing software, such as Excel, was insufficient for the increasing quantity of qualitative data collected, necessitating the need for specialized software geared towards qualit…

Implementation of Artificial Intelligence to Estimate Population Size of a Migratory Bird from Aerial Thermal Imagery [2024 INV#DOI-67]

Current survey approach has excessive variability that cannot be biologically explained. New approach is warranted to inform harvest management

AI-Powered Wildlife Monitoring on National Wildlife Refuges

For whooping crane, traditional survey approach is to estimate population size by conducting 6 repeated surveys due to limits of human observer surveys. Surveys of waterfowl are…

Water Use Model Development [2024 INV#WO0000000109669]

Estimate multiple categories of water use across the U.S.