Experts are sounding the alarm on a new provision allowing DHS’s chief AI officer to waive any requirement outlined in the directive, including prohibited use cases.

A whole-of-government effort is taking shape to combat an influx of AI-generated responses to market research inquiries, a Transportation Department official said.

The DHS unit is conducting market research to see how vendors could potentially help add AI agents to development workflows and expand its existing STELLA platform.

Documents shared exclusively with FedScoop offer insight into the initial contract awarded six years ago that acted as a critical building block in DHS’s current surveillance apparatus.

The agency’s Missing and Murdered Unit will use Clearview AI tools to “rapidly identify and locate missing persons, crime victims, and suspects nationwide,” contracting documents said.

While the system’s deployment timeline is unclear, the Department of Homeland Security unit described the platform as providing a secure access point to large language models.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit said some of the Trump administration’s arguments were “weak sauce” and the data-sharing “indisputably contravenes” privacy law.

The planned $2 million investment follows increased use of the tech in law enforcement operations, such as to support security operations during the World Cup.

The Department of Homeland Security component plans to spend up to $5 million on procuring services to support its “fraud detection” and “data segmentation” efforts.

The Department of Homeland Security unit will spend more than $16.7 million on 6,650 of the “conductive distraction and de-escalation” devices made by Compliant Technologies.