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Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives

Airship AI video management platform with licence plate OCR and object detection, supplied by Airship AI Holdings Inc.

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Body
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives
Country
United States
Area
Nationwide
Technology
Airship AI video management platform with licence plate OCR and object detection
Supplier
Airship AI Holdings Inc.
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-0003)
Last checked
Record code
PAI-66B99CB0

Notes

The Justice Department's 2025 AI use case inventory (entry DOJ-0003, as consolidated by the Office of Management and Budget) lists 'Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS)' as deployed. The entry, titled 'Unmanned Aerial Systems', describes a video management platform used for video surveillance obtained through criminal investigations, with AI optical character recognition of plates and tail numbers and object detection with near-real-time alerts. It gives an operational date of January 2024 and classes the use as high-impact.

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