DHS Asset Assessment Tool

Overview

Development stage

In development or acquisitionSource: a) Pre-deployment – The use case is in a development or acquisition status.

High-impact designation

Not high-impactSource: c) Not high-impact

Impact justification

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Start date

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Withheld from public reporting

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Mission

Topic area

Administrative Functions

Operational functions

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Problem the AI is intended to solve

Reduces users’ required time, effort, preexisting knowledge of which dataset has which information, and expertise with writing functional SQL.

Expected benefits

One of DHS’s largest expenses is their people, their facilities and their assets. The value of the Asset Assessment tool is to improve the efficiency of DHS Property Manager’s analysis and planning process by expediting and automating today’s very manual assessment of facility placement and consolidation. The tool also provides enhanced views of information that were not available previously – like the prediction of facility cost over time for multiple facilities using actual utilization data inputs. The tools provides developer time and ultimately resource cost savings from removing manual SQL development steps from the analysis process. The tool ultimately reduces users’ required time, effort, preexisting knowledge of which dataset has which information, and expertise with writing functional SQL.

System outputs

Natural language processing outputs with descriptions of intermediate AI logic to accomplish cost-benefit asset assessments. When outputs include location specific information (i.e. which county an office is in or which facilities are in a given state), output include mapping of geospatial information to enhance spatial analysis and improve accuracy of decision-making.

Technology

AI classification

Natural language processingSource: Natural Language Processing: AI that processes, interprets, and shares information in human language.

System name(s)

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Custom-developed code

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Public source code

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Sourcing

How it was built

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Vendor (as reported)

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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

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Privacy Impact Assessment

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Authorization to Operate

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Demographic features

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Training and evaluation data

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Federal Data Catalog

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Governance

0 of 8 minimum-practice questions answered. A blank answer means the agency reported nothing; it does not mean the practice is absent.

Potential impacts and how they were identified

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