AI Use Cases

Use case	Agency	Stage	High-impact	Topic area	AI classification	Sourcing
Gas Blanket Certificates (Permitting) FERC-0005 · FERC	FERC	Pilot	Not high-impact	Energy and the Environment	Generative AI	Contract and in-house
Deep Learning based image segmentation [2024 INV#WO0000000107975] DOI-0175 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Foundation Models to Advance Earth Science [2024 INV#WO0000000107153] DOI-0172 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Generative AI	Developed in-house
LLM-Assisted Volcanic Alert Monitoring DOI-0109 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Natural language processing	Developed in-house
Reducing elevation error in coastal wetland digital elevation models DOI-0088 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Developing land cover maps for barrier islands using satellite imagery DOI-0087 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Invasive Carp Harvest Predictive Model DOI-0061 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Flor-AI: Developing a Remotely Sensed Image Classification Method for Inventory and Monitoring of Flora in Digital UAS Imagery DOI-0079 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Energy and the Environment	Computer vision	Developed in-house
Automating the Detection and Classification of Wildlife in Aerial Imagery [2024 INV#WO0000000109409] DOI-0075 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Energy and the Environment	Computer vision	Developed in-house
Automated identification of ducks from hunter-submitted photos using deep learning models DOI-0074 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Automated photographic identification of Eastern box turtles DOI-0073 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Computer vision	Developed in-house
Pathogen identification in salmon DOI-0071 · USGS	DOI	Pilot	Not high-impact	Science	Classical / predictive ML	Developed in-house
Policy Assistance Tool (PAT) R3116 · Chief Information Officer	SSA	Pilot	High-impact	Government Benefits Processing	Generative AI	Contract and in-house
Chatbots for internal research SBA-11 · Advocacy: Office of Advocacy	SBA	Pilot	Not high-impact	Administrative Functions	Generative AI	Purchased from vendor
General AI Use Case across the SBA for web and desktop SBA-22 · OCIO: Office of the Chief Information Officer	SBA	Pilot	Not high-impact	Administrative Functions	Generative AI	Purchased from vendor
Email, Document, and Composing AI Editor SBA-23 · OCPL: Office of Communications & Public Liaison	SBA	Pilot	Not high-impact	Service Delivery	Classical / predictive ML	Purchased from vendor
Office of Advocacy AI System-Prompt Suite SBA-29 · Advocacy: Office of Advocacy	SBA	Pilot	Not high-impact	Information Technology	Generative AI	Developed in-house
M365 Copilot DOE-574 · LANL - Los Alamos National Lab (LAFO)	DOE	Pilot	Presumed high-impact, determined not	Other	Generative AI	Purchased from vendor