AI-Enabled Surveillance and Detection Analytics (US DHS bundle)
A Government Accountability Office finding that US Department of Homeland Security law enforcement components use more than 20 categories of detection, observation and monitoring technology, some incorporating AI.
Multiple, not fully disclosed
This entry exists because of an accountability review rather than a disclosure, and that provenance determines what can and cannot be said.
A Government Accountability Office review examining fiscal year 2023 usage, published December 2024, found Department of Homeland Security law enforcement components using more than 20 categories of detection, observation and monitoring technology. These include facial recognition and automatic licence plate readers, alongside analytic software — some of which uses AI — and access to third-party plate reader networks.
WHAT THIS DOES AND DOES NOT ESTABLISH
The review establishes that this breadth of capability exists across DHS components. It does not name systems, vendors, deployment scales or operational rules, because that was not its purpose.
That is a meaningfully weaker evidential basis than the entries on this site drawn from procurement records or agency disclosures, and it is recorded as such rather than presented as equivalent.
Where individual DHS-component systems are named with enough specificity to source independently — CBP's Traveler Verification Service, ICE's Mobile Fortify, Palantir's immigration systems — they are catalogued as their own entries rather than folded into this one. This page covers only what the GAO review itself established.
WHAT IS NOT ESTABLISHED
Which specific systems make up the 20-plus categories is not published.
Current usage, as distinct from fiscal year 2023, is not established.
Whether the GAO's recommendations have been implemented is not established here.
Where this is deployed
Full tracker →| Country | Force | Status |
|---|---|---|
| US | US Department of Homeland Security (multiple components)National | Operational |