United States, Nationwide
Drug Enforcement Administration
Drug Signature Program models (origin and manufacturing route of seized drugs)
OperationalOfficial publicationPAI-282879C0
- Body
- Drug Enforcement Administration
- Country
- United States
- Area
- Nationwide
- Technology
- Drug Signature Program models (origin and manufacturing route of seized drugs)
- Supplier
- Not stated in the source
- 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-0060)
- Last checked
- Record code
PAI-282879C0
Notes
The Justice Department's 2025 AI use case inventory (entry DOJ-0060, as consolidated by the Office of Management and Budget) lists 'DEA Drug Signature Program Models' as deployed. The entry says AI and machine learning models help designated forensic chemists identify a notional geographic origin or manufacturing route for seized drug samples, which the chemists weigh with other information. It gives an operational date of January 1998 and classes the use as not high-impact.
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Secret ServiceLicence plate reading from poor-quality images and video (forensic) | United StatesNationwide | Amped (as listed in the inventory) | 2025 | Operational | |
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