United States, Nationwide
ICE Homeland Security Investigations
Penlink and Fivecast open-source intelligence platforms with generative AI, supplied by Penlink, Fivecast
OperationalOfficial publicationPAI-CF354D16
- Body
- ICE Homeland Security Investigations
- Country
- United States
- Area
- Nationwide
- Technology
- Penlink and Fivecast open-source intelligence platforms with generative AI
- Supplier
- Penlink, Fivecast
- Status
- Operational
In routine use by the named body, on the evidence of a public source. - Stage
- In use now
- Since
- September 2023
- 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 (DHS-2759)
- Last checked
- Record code
PAI-CF354D16
Notes
The DHS 2025 AI Use Case Inventory (entry DHS-2759, as consolidated by the Office of Management and Budget) lists 'Open-Source Intelligence for Investigations' as deployed. The entry says the platforms use pre-trained language and other models to produce flagged risk alerts, extracted identifiers, image and sentiment classification and suggested investigative leads from public online data, and that they do not perform biometric identification, autonomous targeting or automated enforcement, with mandatory human review. It lists race or ethnicity, sex and age among demographic features and cites the November 2024 ICE social media Privacy Impact Assessment. DHS classes the use as not high-impact.
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| Deployment | Country | Supplier | Since | Status | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ICE Homeland Security InvestigationsAI Social Media Monitoring | United States | Zignal Labs (via Carahsoft) | — | Proposed | |
| ICE Homeland Security InvestigationsClearview AI facial recognition search | United StatesNationwide | Clearview AI | — | Operational | |
| ICE Homeland Security InvestigationsGenerative AI summaries and translation of dark web data for cyber investigations | United StatesNationwide | — | 2024 | Operational | |
| ICE Homeland Security InvestigationsAltana entity resolution and supply-chain knowledge graph for trade investigations | United StatesNationwide | Altana | 2024 | Operational | |
| ICE Homeland Security InvestigationsTRM Labs blockchain analysis | United StatesNationwide | TRM Labs | 2022 | Operational | |
| ICE Homeland Security InvestigationsInvestigative Prioritization Aggregator (scoring of entities in investigations) | United StatesNationwide | Sandia National Laboratories | 2024 | Operational | |
| ICE Homeland Security InvestigationsCellebrite media classifier for digital evidence | United StatesNationwide | Cellebrite | 2023 | Operational | |
| ICE Homeland Security InvestigationsCase Guard AI-assisted audio and video redaction | United StatesNationwide | Case Guard | 2024 | Operational | |
| ICE Homeland Security InvestigationsTranslation and transcription of investigative data | United StatesNationwide | Booz Allen | 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 |
Penlink and Fivecast open-source intelligence platforms with generative AI elsewhere in United States
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boston Police DepartmentAI Social Media Monitoring | United StatesMassachusetts | LifeRaft | 2026 | Operational | |
| US Customs and Border ProtectionOpen source and social media analysis (NexisXplore) | United StatesNationwide | NexisXplore (as listed in the inventory) | 2025 | Operational | |
| US Immigration and Customs EnforcementAI open-source research for lead identification and targeting | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Proposed | |
| US Customs and Border ProtectionBabel Street 'Babel' open-source and social media analysis | United StatesNationwide | Babel Street | 2023 | Operational | |
| US Customs and Border ProtectionDataminr alerts for travel threat analysis | United StatesNationwide | Dataminr | 2024 | Operational | |
| Federal Bureau of InvestigationTranslation, OCR, object detection and alert filtering for open-source and threat intelligence | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Operational | |
| Drug Enforcement AdministrationData and analytics database tools for open-source investigation | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Operational | |
| US Marshals ServiceOpen Source Investigative Tool | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Operational |