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ID	AI Initiative	Stage	Description	Sector	Region	AI Bucket	SME
175	AI model for duplcate or dubious licence accounts	Ideation	Licencing systems hold 10 times the amount accounts compared to licences issued. Many duplicate and dubious accounts across the millions of...	Programs Sector	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Bédard, Mathieu
172	AI model for Condtions of Licences review	Ideation	Pac has 130 COls. These have been individually edited over the past decades. An AI model to search and identify difference in wording for si...	Programs Sector	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Bédard, Mathieu
54	PII & Sensitivity Scores	Ideation On hold On hold	Determines the sensitivity of the content of a document based on a trained model and allows for the redaction of the sensitive material in t...	Programs Sector	Pacific	Automation and Decision Support	Quan, Eric
56	Method Recommendation Engine	Ideation	A large language model reviews a scientist’s objective for collecting data in the field and based on the criteria, the model will provide th...	Programs Sector	Pacific	Automation and Decision Support	Quan, Eric
71	News topic detection tool	Ideation	Use large language models and topic clustering to read topics emerging in the news and detect which of those topics is relevant to DFO, as w...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Cognitive and Generative AI	Bird, Tom
75	Study on the use of Artificial Neural Networks to Predict the Return Timing and Northern Diversion Rate for Migrating Fraser River Sockeye Salmon	Ideation	The Machine Learning feasibility study compliments the statistical approach by asking whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods can be de...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Automation and Decision Support	Thomson, Richard
77	Emulator for OPP port models and for relocatable ocean modelling system	Ideation	Use machine learning to develop an emulator (or similar) for the OPP port models, which would be used to produce forecasts via inference. Th...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Cognitive and Generative AI	Dunphy, Michael
79	Biological models to support prioritzing salmon stocks under future climates	Ideation	This project fits retrospective, life stage-specific models in a data-driven analytical framework to evaluate functional responses to climat...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Cognitive and Generative AI	Thompson, Patrick
27	Turn on AI Auto labeling on all M365 documents and communications channels	Ideation	Our E5 M365 licences grant access to AI based tools in Purview to automatically categorized documents and set labels accordingly. Model tra...	Chief Digital Officer	Quebec	Automation and Decision Support	Bussieres, Martin
134	LLM Document Chatbot	Development	Large language model that can help users ask questions to document sets and get answers, summarize key information, and find data with citat...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement	Winegardner, Amanda
53	LLM Document Chatbot	Development	Large language model that can help users ask questions to document sets and get answers, summarize key information, and find data with citat...	Programs Sector	Pacific	Interaction and Engagement	Quan, Eric
226	DFO AI - Pipeline	Pilot	DFO Pipeline Analyzer is a private Azure DevOps extension designed to assist development teams in diagnosing and resolving pipeline failures...	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Infrastructure and Enablement	Mehdi, Ghizal
137	Method Recommendation Engine	Pilot	A large language model reviews a scientist’s objective for collecting data in the field and based on the criteria, the model will provide th...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Winegardner, Amanda
170	NFIS Elver Retrieval-Augmented Generation Pilot with CDOS	Pilot	CDOS RAG pilot accept NFIS submission of illegal elver sales proposal. AI model would receive content and asked to summarize or visualize in...	Programs Sector	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Bédard, Mathieu
161	Remote sensing of the internal tide in the St. Lawrence	Pilot	Using model outputs (STLE500/STLE200) to 1) help identify internal tide surface signature in SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) data...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Perception and Understanding	Winegardner, Amanda
152	Data Validation Tool	Pilot	Use large language models to help detect errors in data transcribed using optical character recognition. Apply validation rules to propose...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Winegardner, Amanda
144	Factoid Finder Tool	Pilot	This completed project used the Factoid Finder extracts text from machine-readable PDFs to create searchable content libraries. Small Langua...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Winegardner, Amanda
135	PII & Sensitivity Scores	Pilot	Determines the sensitivity of the content of a document based on a trained model and allows for the redaction of the sensitive material in t...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Winegardner, Amanda
99	Improved freshwater runoff modelling in Eastern Canada to drive ocean models	Pilot	Use Neural Networks to post-process streamflow simulations from the WRF-Hydro model, improving their agreement with observational data. Thes...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Winegardner, Amanda
102	Past, Present and Future Oceanographic Conditions in Canada's MPAs and Marine OECMs (Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures)	Pilot	Downscaling climate models using neural networks for conservation areas. Neural networks allow us to represent coarse resolution climate pro...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Winegardner, Amanda
110	Mercator Collaboration on Digital Twins of the Ocean	Pilot	Knowledge exchanges with ECCC and Mercator Océan International on use of AI for ocean modelling, in the context of Digital Twins of the Ocea...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Infrastructure and Enablement	Winegardner, Amanda
111	Digital Twins of the Ocean Task Team	Pilot	National exchanges on topics relating to ocean modelling for development of Digital Twins of the Ocean, including use of AI for modelling an...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Infrastructure and Enablement	Winegardner, Amanda
112	ECCC exchanges on use of AI for ocean modelling	Pilot	Exchanges with ECCC on implementation of machine learning methods for operational ocean forecasting, including potential uses for DFO models...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Infrastructure and Enablement	Winegardner, Amanda
113	Improving forecasting for high-priority ports	Pilot	Research into feasibility of improving accuracy and timeliness of short-term forecasts for coastal regions by combining traditional and AI m...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Winegardner, Amanda
132	Salmon Scale Aging	Pilot	A model using computer vision to look at images of salmon scale and predict the age of salmon and also explain how it arrived at its predict...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Perception and Understanding	Winegardner, Amanda

175
AI model for duplcate or dubious licence accounts
Licencing systems hold 10 times the amount accounts compared to licences issued. Many duplicate and dubious accounts across the millions of accounts. An AI model to discover duplicate/dubious accounts to highlight them for human review and action.

Ideation Programs Sector Automation and Decision Support
172
AI model for Condtions of Licences review
Pac has 130 COls. These have been individually edited over the past decades. An AI model to search and identify difference in wording for similar Conditions

Ideation Programs Sector Automation and Decision Support
54
PII & Sensitivity Scores
Determines the sensitivity of the content of a document based on a trained model and allows for the redaction of the sensitive material in the document. Presidio

Ideation On hold Programs Sector Automation and Decision Support
56
Method Recommendation Engine
A large language model reviews a scientist’s objective for collecting data in the field and based on the criteria, the model will provide the best procedure to use for their work

Ideation Programs Sector Automation and Decision Support
71
News topic detection tool
Use large language models and topic clustering to read topics emerging in the news and detect which of those topics is relevant to DFO, as well as what knowledge DFO has available to address those topics. Large Language Models

Ideation Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
75
Study on the use of Artificial Neural Networks to Predict the Return Timing and Northern Diversion Rate for Migrating Fraser River Sockeye Salmon
The Machine Learning feasibility study compliments the statistical approach by asking whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) methods can be developed to predict salmon behaviour as functions of ocean conditions. classical machine learning models, including linear regression, Ridge regression, and Random Forest

Ideation Ecosystems and Oceans Science Automation and Decision Support
77
Emulator for OPP port models and for relocatable ocean modelling system
Use machine learning to develop an emulator (or similar) for the OPP port models, which would be used to produce forecasts via inference. The inference is expected to be both faster and computationally cheaper than existing solutions. The training process would use existing model output from multi-year hindcasts. Success with a fixed location would graduate to developing a relocatable emulator TBD; could be U-Net or CNN, or based on GraphCast

Ideation Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
79
Biological models to support prioritzing salmon stocks under future climates
This project fits retrospective, life stage-specific models in a data-driven analytical framework to evaluate functional responses to climate variables across the salmon life cycle and make projections for how stocks will respond to climate change scenarios. This modelling approach is intended to be sufficiently flexible to incorporate variability in data quality. Large language models are being used to brainstorm modelling approaches and debug code. AI is not being tasked with developing these models. Large Language Models

Ideation Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
27
Turn on AI Auto labeling on all M365 documents and communications channels
Our E5 M365 licences grant access to AI based tools in Purview to automatically categorized documents and set labels accordingly. Model training would require attention of an Security/IM expert to make perfect. We may want to create specific AI specific labels to avoid conflicts with officials ones.

Ideation Chief Digital Officer Automation and Decision Support
134
LLM Document Chatbot
Large language model that can help users ask questions to document sets and get answers, summarize key information, and find data with citations and sourcing.

Development Ecosystems and Oceans Science Interaction and Engagement
53
LLM Document Chatbot
Large language model that can help users ask questions to document sets and get answers, summarize key information, and find data with citations and sourcing., including, from documents with multiple templates using prompt engineering approaches Azure OpenAI GPT4o/4o mini

Development Programs Sector Interaction and Engagement
226
DFO AI - Pipeline
DFO Pipeline Analyzer is a private Azure DevOps extension designed to assist development teams in diagnosing and resolving pipeline failures using AI. When a pipeline run fails, this task automatically triggers, extracts the provided error details, and queries a secure AI API to generate a human-readable explanation of the failure along with actionable troubleshooting steps. It will assist developers to make appropriate steps in right direction as they are getting suggestion with-in pipeline logs. Suggestion also provide corrected version of pipeline Key features: Runs only on pipeline failure (condition: failed()) Fully agent-agnostic: Works on self-hosted and Azure-hosted agents, across Windows, Linux, and macOS Provides clear error analysis and resolution guidance directly in pipeline logs Keeps your data secure by using your own OpenAI or other AI API key Fully private and scoped to your Azure DevOps organization We have working prototype of DFO-AI pipeline Analyzer by communicating with OpenAI securely. In next steps we are also exploring to integrate with our self-hosted AI Models (open-source via Ollama), currently in discussion

Pilot Chief Digital Officer Infrastructure and Enablement
137
Method Recommendation Engine
A large language model reviews a scientist’s objective for collecting data in the field and based on the criteria, the model will provide the best procedure to use for their work

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Automation and Decision Support
170
NFIS Elver Retrieval-Augmented Generation Pilot with CDOS
CDOS RAG pilot accept NFIS submission of illegal elver sales proposal. AI model would receive content and asked to summarize or visualize information based on core concepts to draw inference. Pilot only active for 2 months. Governance: Large project of 40 pilots led by CDOS. Assign project lead; document user access. Regular check-ins with IT and management. Guardrails: Restrict to pilot users; apply GC data/privacy standards; conduct ethical reviews and audits. No interne

Pilot Programs Sector Cognitive and Generative AI
161
Remote sensing of the internal tide in the St. Lawrence
Using model outputs (STLE500/STLE200) to 1) help identify internal tide surface signature in SWOT (Surface Water and Ocean Topography) data and 2) train an AI to detect internal tide in SWOT data.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Perception and Understanding
152
Data Validation Tool
Use large language models to help detect errors in data transcribed using optical character recognition. Apply validation rules to propose corrections and normalize data into a standardized format.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Automation and Decision Support
144
Factoid Finder Tool
This completed project used the Factoid Finder extracts text from machine-readable PDFs to create searchable content libraries. Small Language Models are used to implement semantic search techniques, allowing users to search the library for relevant passages within the PDFs.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
135
PII & Sensitivity Scores
Determines the sensitivity of the content of a document based on a trained model and allows for the redaction of the sensitive material in the document.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Automation and Decision Support
99
Improved freshwater runoff modelling in Eastern Canada to drive ocean models
Use Neural Networks to post-process streamflow simulations from the WRF-Hydro model, improving their agreement with observational data. These neural networks are applied as a downstream calibration step. Builds synergy between traditional calibration methods and modern AI techniques in hydrologic modeling.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Automation and Decision Support
102
Past, Present and Future Oceanographic Conditions in Canada's MPAs and Marine OECMs (Other Effective area-based Conservation Measures)
Downscaling climate models using neural networks for conservation areas. Neural networks allow us to represent coarse resolution climate projections at a much higher spatial resolution across six eastern MPAs.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
110
Mercator Collaboration on Digital Twins of the Ocean
Knowledge exchanges with ECCC and Mercator Océan International on use of AI for ocean modelling, in the context of Digital Twins of the Ocean.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Infrastructure and Enablement
111
Digital Twins of the Ocean Task Team
National exchanges on topics relating to ocean modelling for development of Digital Twins of the Ocean, including use of AI for modelling and products.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Infrastructure and Enablement
112
ECCC exchanges on use of AI for ocean modelling
Exchanges with ECCC on implementation of machine learning methods for operational ocean forecasting, including potential uses for DFO models.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Infrastructure and Enablement
113
Improving forecasting for high-priority ports
Research into feasibility of improving accuracy and timeliness of short-term forecasts for coastal regions by combining traditional and AI modelling methods.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Automation and Decision Support
132
Salmon Scale Aging
A model using computer vision to look at images of salmon scale and predict the age of salmon and also explain how it arrived at its prediction.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Perception and Understanding