The Justice Department will expand its artificial intelligence capabilities to support investigative operations, including to speed up data analysis to track vehicles and people of interest without using personally identifiable information.
Veritone, an artificial intelligence software company, today announced that it will expand its offerings within the Department of Justice’s Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys. Veritone’s proprietary applications that will be made available to Justice Department officials have two primary use cases: public records redaction requests and investigative requests.
Jon Gacek, Veritone’s public sector general manager, said: Next government/FCW Veritone’s technology will be used to translate and transcribe video and audio evidence into English from multiple languages. Today’s announcement marks an expansion of these capabilities to the DOJ’s previous contract for Veritone’s operating system, aiWARE.
“We are honored to deepen our partnership with the Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys, Veritone’s original sponsor at the Department of Justice,” Gacek said in separate prepared remarks. “The expanded authorization of Veritone solutions comes at a time when agencies are grappling with a growing volume of unstructured audio and video data, and our tools play a critical role in automating workflows and empowering their teams with AI technology.”
Justice Department officials did not respond to a request for comment. Gacek said, however, that the video analytics component Veritone is proposing with the updated contract is an “important component” for local and federal government partners to modernize their operations.
“There’s too much unstructured audio and video for anyone to effectively watch or listen to,” he said. “And the Justice Department also includes documents … which are also unstructured data … at their scale, it’s created a massive amount of unstructured data that they don’t have enough staff to actually oversee and analyze.”
Organizing video data is Veritone’s specialty, and Gacek said the AI systems authorized by the DOJ will mine data from body camera videos and other surveillance systems for investigative purposes. Some of that data will also be authorized and processed under Freedom of Information Act requests, which may include redacted images and information.
Veritone’s solutions to protect redacted information, streamline workflows and enable data analysis “are readily available to U.S. Attorneys’ Offices through the FedRAMP Marketplace,” the press release said.
