United States, Nationwide
US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Real-time AI translation for field operations
ProposedOfficial publicationPAI-DDA9A949
- Body
- US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
- Country
- United States
- Area
- Nationwide
- Technology
- Real-time AI translation for field operations
- Supplier
- Not stated in the source
- Status
- Proposed
Planned by a named body: a procurement, approved budget, announced pilot or consultation. Not yet in use. - Stage
- On the horizon
- 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 (DHS-2749)
- Last checked
- Record code
PAI-DDA9A949
Notes
The DHS 2025 AI Use Case Inventory (entry DHS-2749, as consolidated by the Office of Management and Budget) lists 'Real-Time Language Translation Services' as pre-deployment, with no operational date. The entry says the planned platforms and apps would translate spoken or written language in near real time, including offline, to support two-way conversations during field operations, interviews and removal processes, because personnel often lack timely interpreters. DHS classes it as high-impact.
Other systems used by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement
| Deployment | Country | Supplier | Since | Status | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US Immigration and Customs EnforcementImmigration Case Management and Targeting (Palantir) | United StatesNationwide | Palantir Technologies | 2014 | Operational | |
| US Immigration and Customs EnforcementFederal Mobile Biometric Identification (Mobile Fortify) | United StatesNationwide, including 287(g) partner agencies | NEC, per the DHS AI inventory (CBP's vendor; ICE has no direct contract); built on CBP's Traveler Verification Service; first reported by 404 Media | 2025 | Operational | |
| US Immigration and Customs EnforcementAI-enhanced tip processing (large language model summaries of web tips) | United StatesNationwide | Palantir Technologies | 2025 | Operational | |
| US Immigration and Customs EnforcementHurricane Score (abscondment risk score for Alternatives to Detention) | United StatesNationwide (Enforcement and Removal Operations, Alternatives to Detention programme) | Developed in-house by ICE | 2019 | Operational | |
| US Immigration and Customs EnforcementLicence plate reader data: commercial database queries and AI plate capture and analysis | United StatesNationwide (Enforcement and Removal Operations and Homeland Security Investigations) | Motorola Solutions (per the DHS inventory); West Publishing (Thomson Reuters) for commercial plate data, per Biometric Update | — | Operational | |
| US Immigration and Customs EnforcementSmartLINK facial verification for Alternatives to Detention remote check-ins | United StatesNationwide | BI | 2018 | Operational | |
| US Immigration and Customs EnforcementAI-assisted resume screening for recruitment | United StatesNationwide | AIS | 2026 | Operational | |
| US Immigration and Customs EnforcementAI mobile device forensics triage | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Proposed | |
| US Immigration and Customs EnforcementAI open-source research for lead identification and targeting | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Proposed |
Real-time AI translation for field operations elsewhere in United States
See them in the tracker| Deployment | Country | Supplier | Since | Status | Checked |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ICE Homeland Security InvestigationsTranslation and transcription of investigative data | United StatesNationwide | Booz Allen | 2024 | Operational | |
| US Customs and Border ProtectionCBP Translate (machine interpretation for officers and agents) | United StatesNationwide | Aneesh Technologies, 24X7, Ellumen Inc., Deloitte, NiyamIT | 2019 | Operational | |
| Transportation Security AdministrationTranscription and summarisation of electronic evidence and video recordings | United States | — | — | Proposed | |
| Federal Bureau of InvestigationTranscription, translation and summarisation tools (five inventory entries) | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Operational | |
| Drug Enforcement AdministrationIntelligence Data Platform (PenLink PLX) multi-language transcription | United StatesNationwide | PenLink PLX | — | Operational | |
| Drug Enforcement AdministrationAudio and written transcription and translation of Spanish and Mandarin (pilot) | United StatesNationwide | MIT Lincoln Laboratory | — | Trial | |
| US Marshals ServiceAxon Evidence transcription | United StatesNationwide | Axon Enterprise, Inc. | — | Operational | |
| US Marshals ServiceIn-house video transcription tool | United StatesNationwide | — | — | Operational | |
| US Department of Justice Office of the Inspector GeneralSpeech-to-text transcription and summarisation service | United StatesNationwide | Microsoft, OpenAI | — | Operational |