USDA · USDA-106 · record R1404
ARGUS AI Supply Chain Interference
Department of Agriculture · Office Of Homeland Security
Overview
- Development stage
- DeployedSource: c) Deployed – The use case is being actively authorized or utilized to support the functions or mission of an agency.
- High-impact designation
- Not high-impactSource: c) Not high-impact
- Impact justification
- Not reported
- Start date
- 2022-09-15 (day precision)Source: 9/15/2022
- Withheld from public reporting
- Not reported
Mission
- Topic area
- International Affairs
- Operational functions
- No function tag matched Derived by keyword rules; see methodology
Problem the AI is intended to solve
Identify potential risks in the supply chain.
Expected benefits
As a specialty-focused information resource, ARGUS AI Supply Chain Influence’s core strength is its ability to collect, organize, and summarize open-source information relating to suppliers.
System outputs
Data analytics, reports, summaries, maps relationships, knowledge graphs
Technology
- AI classification
- Agentic AISource: Agentic AI: AI systems that perform tasks or make decisions autonomously with minimal human intervention.
- System name(s)
- ARGUS
- Custom-developed code
- Yes
- Public source code
- huggingface.co ↗
Sourcing
- How it was built
- Purchased from vendorSource: a) Purchased from a vendor
- Vendor (as reported)
- ACCRETE AI Government
- Vendors (standardized)
- None on the standard list
A vendor is the supplier named by the agency. It does not identify the underlying model or AI technology.
Data and privacy
- Involves PII
- No
- Privacy Impact Assessment
- Not reported
- Authorization to Operate
- Yes
- Demographic features
- k) None of the above
- Training and evaluation data
- Data is collected on a regular basis from a variety of sources and contains information such as regulatory filings, press releases, company websites and surveys, call transcripts, prospectuses, trade publications, government records, and exchanges. Business filings and regulatory information are sourced from official government and industry sources. Media-derived information is scraped from news websites.
- Federal Data Catalog
- Not reported
Governance
0 of 8 minimum-practice questions answered. A blank answer means the agency reported nothing; it does not mean the practice is absent.
Pre-deployment testingNo answer reported
AI impact assessmentNo answer reported
Independent reviewNo answer reported
Ongoing monitoringNo answer reported
Operator trainingNo answer reported
Fail-safeNo answer reported
Appeal processNo answer reported
User and public consultationNo answer reported
Potential impacts and how they were identified
Not reported