Mobile Fortify

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

High-impactSource: a) High-impact

Impact justification

Not reported

Start date

2025-05-20 (day precision)Source: 2025-05-20T00:00:00

Withheld from public reporting

Not reported

Mission

Topic area

Law Enforcement

Operational functions

Document processing and extraction, Biometrics and identity Derived by keyword rules; see methodology

Problem the AI is intended to solve

The AI is intended to solve the problem of confirming individuals’ identities in the field when officers and agents must work with limited information and access multiple disparate systems to identify individuals and retrieve existing data relevant to enforcement, investigations, and victim protection activities.

Expected benefits

The use of AI in this process increases the speed and efficiency of identifying individuals and organizing identity information, supporting immigration enforcement, authorized investigations, and victim protection efforts.

System outputs

Mobile Fortify runs on a mobile device and can capture facial images, contactless fingerprints, and photographs of identity documents. The application transmits this data to U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) for submission to government biometric matching systems. Those systems use AI-based matching techniques, including facial recognition and fingerprint matching, to compare the captured data against existing records and return possible matches with associated biographic information. The tool also uses optical character recognition to extract text from identity documents to support additional checks. ICE does not own or interact directly with the AI models that perform biometric matching or optical character recognition. CBP owns and operates these models, and Mobile Fortify simply displays the results to ICE users. For additional details on the AI models that support the application, see CBP’s Mobile Fortify AI use case.

Technology

AI classification

Computer visionSource: Computer Vision: AI that processes and interprets visual data (e.g., images and videos).

System name(s)

TVSI, ATS-C

Custom-developed code

Yes

Public source code

Not reported

Sourcing

How it was built

Contract and in-houseSource: c) Developed with both contracting and in-house resources

Vendor (as reported)

NEC is the third‑party vendor CBP uses. ICE accesses these capabilities through CBP and does not contract directly with NEC.

Vendors (standardized)

NEC

A vendor is the supplier named by the agency. It does not identify the underlying model or AI technology.

Data and privacy

Involves PII

Yes

Privacy Impact Assessment

Not reported

Authorization to Operate

Yes

Demographic features

Not reported

Training and evaluation data

ICE does not own and did not train, test, or evaluate the AI models that power the Mobile Fortify application. See CBP’s Mobile Fortify AI use case for details on the application’s underlying AI models.

Federal Data Catalog

Not reported

Governance

8 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

In-Progress - potential impacts will be identified during AI Impact Assessment.