United States, Nationwide
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
PenLink PLX forensic analysis and link analysis, supplied by PenLink
OperationalOfficial publicationPAI-2571B9AC
- Body
- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
- Country
- United States
- Area
- Nationwide
- Technology
- PenLink PLX forensic analysis and link analysis
- Supplier
- PenLink
- Status
- Operational
In routine use by the named body, on the evidence of a public source. - Stage
- In use now
- Since
- Not known
- Legal basis
- Not stated in the source
- Oversight
- Not stated in the source
- Evidence
- Official publication
Police force, government department or public body publication - Source
- Office of Management and Budget, 2025 federal AI use case inventory (DOJ-0270)
- Last checked
- Record code
PAI-2571B9AC
Notes
The Justice Department's 2025 AI use case inventory (entry DOJ-0270, as consolidated by the Office of Management and Budget) lists 'PLX' as deployed. The entry says PLX is used for forensic analysis of data from phones, computers and warrant returns in criminal investigations, giving notifications of potential entity matches and link analysis visualisations. It gives an operational date of January 2024 and classes the use as high-impact.
Other systems used by Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
| Deployment | Country | Supplier | Since | Status | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and ExplosivesAirship AI video management platform with licence plate OCR and object detection | United StatesNationwide | Airship AI Holdings Inc. | — | Operational | |
| Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and ExplosivesAccess to Axon Fusus video integration run by HIDTA partners | United StatesNationwide | Axon | — | Operational | |
| Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and ExplosivesAccess to Flock licence plate readers run by HIDTA partners | United StatesNationwide | Flock Safety | — | Operational | |
| Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and ExplosivesAccess to ELSAG licence plate readers run by HIDTA partners | United StatesNationwide | Leonardo US Cyber and Security Solutions LLC | — | Operational | |
| Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and ExplosivesThomson Reuters Vigilant Vehicle Manager | United StatesNationwide | Motorola | — | Operational | |
| Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and ExplosivesAccess to ShotSpotter via external state and local systems | United StatesNationwide | SoundThinking | — | Operational |
PenLink PLX forensic analysis and link analysis elsewhere in United States
See them in the tracker| Deployment | Country | Supplier | Since | Status | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TRM LabsPolice Data Integration and Link Analysis Platforms | United States | TRM Labs (Ardence) | 2026 | In development | |
| IRS Criminal InvestigationPalantir Lead and Case Analytics (LCA) data analytics platform | United StatesNationwide | Palantir Technologies | 2018 | Operational | |
| ICE Homeland Security InvestigationsAltana entity resolution and supply-chain knowledge graph for trade investigations | United StatesNationwide | Altana | 2024 | Operational | |
| ICE Homeland Security InvestigationsNormalisation services for investigative data | United StatesNationwide | Booz Allen | 2021 | Operational | |
| ICE Homeland Security InvestigationsGlobal maritime intelligence analytics | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Proposed | |
| ICE Homeland Security InvestigationsNamed entity resolution for investigative data | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Proposed | |
| ICE Homeland Security InvestigationsSemantic search and summarisation of investigative, translated and digital forensics data (three planned tools) | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Proposed | |
| ICE Homeland Security InvestigationsEmail analytics for investigative data | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Proposed | |
| US Citizenship and Immigration ServicesText analytics sentence-similarity model for fraud, national security and public safety patterns | United StatesNationwide | Inadev | 2019 | Operational | |
| Federal Bureau of InvestigationData synthesis, sentiment, filtering and location linking | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Operational | |
| Federal Bureau of InvestigationNational Data Exchange entity extraction for lead generation | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Operational | |
| Drug Enforcement AdministrationSupply chain analytics | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Operational |