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Users need to find outdated content or prohibited content on DOI websites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

Nutrient, Salinity, sediment, temperature, and drought model development

Simulate nutrients (phosphorus and nitrate), temperature, sediment, and salinity in streams across the U.S.

CONUS EcoFlows Planning & Prototype [2024 INV#WO0000000109732]

National-scale ecological-flow response models

AI for Offshore Energy: Innovative Technology Streamlines Marine Wildlife Surveys [2024 INV#DOI-66]

Offshore energy development requires environmental assessments; using AI technology to conduct offshore migratory bird counts can efficiently provide such data, however, substanti…

Using advanced computing techniques for image-based monitoring [2024 INV#WO0000000109674]

Provide tools and methods for leveraging image-based monitoring and machine learning approaches for measuring surface water properties.

Using advanced computing techniques for mobile monitoring platforms [2024 INV#WO0000000109492]

Support the navigation and swarming capabilities of autonomous vehicle platforms for water monitoring