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AI initiative registry
ID	AI Initiative	Stage	Description	Sector	Region	AI Bucket	SME
80	Various Built-In AI Features (Co-pilot, ChatGPT, etc)	Pilot	Using built-in AI features and functions in regular workflow operations. This includes LLM's such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, and...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Cognitive and Generative AI	Quan, Eric
240	The Current	Development	Don't let your harvested data get stuck in still water. Navigate new data streams with AI automation, augmentation and information enableme...	Fisheries Management	Not region specific	Perception and Understanding	Bird, Tom
73	Statistical Downscaling for the Ocean Working Group (SD-Ocean)	Ideation	The Canada-wide working group is open to researchers and practitioners in academia, government, and the non-profit sector. The WG will foste...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Infrastructure and Enablement	Holdsworth, Amber
19	RWS Language Weaver AI-Powered Translation Engine	Ideation	The concept behind this idea is to significantly decrease the costs of translations while significantly improving the turnaround time of tra...	—	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement	Johnston, Diane
17	Recruitment and staffing tools	Ideation	Recruitment and staffing tools (Mark Jarvis) (existing agents created by Microsoft to be explored further)	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Gardner, Leigh
43	PSPC Concierge	Ideation	In partnership with CDOS and Pay Programs, we are agreeing to test the PSPC chatbot with 50 users, slated to start in June. This test will d...	Human Resources and Corporate Services	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement	Gardner, Leigh
117	PolyDocs: Format and Translate for CSAS	Production	A modular, bilingually-optimized (EN/FR) application that automates the formatting, quality assurance, and standardization of complex Word d...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Carr, Kevin
13	PoC in Power Apps, Power Automate, and SharePoint	Ideation	PoC in Power Apps, Power Automate, and SharePoint (Mark Jarvis) to have an efficient helpdesk; AI to review questions and predict templates...	—	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Gardner, Leigh
12	P&C AI Chatbot for Pay	Development	AI Chatbot for Pay to assist with pay questions and errors in LoO (PSPC led) DFO Pilot with PSPC Concierge Chatbot for HR & pay information...	—	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement	Gardner, Leigh
167	Network model developing and testing with synthetic AI participants.	Ideation	Qualitative network models (QNM) can incorporate uncertainty through an ensemble of rights holder and stakeholder inputs. Before, engaging t...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Winegardner, Amanda
14	MyPay HRMS Chatbot	Ideation	HRMS Chatbot (Mark Jarvis)	Human Resources and Corporate Services	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement	Gardner, Leigh
15	MyGCHR Phoenix analysis	Ideation	MYGCHR Phoenix analysis tool (Mark Jarvis) to flag incorrect records and recognize future incorrect entries to help cleanup pay files	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Gardner, Leigh
45	MyGCHR – Phoenix analysis tool	Ideation	Pro B data would be needed, but feed MyGCHR and Phoenix records, but flag those that are incorrect in the hopes of training the AI to recogn...	Human Resources and Corporate Services	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Gardner, Leigh
25	Help DFO employees navigate CDOS structure and services	Ideation	CDOS is a large and complex organisation. Leverage AI to help DFO user access services, understand organization structure, identify SME. Exp...	Chief Digital Officer	Quebec	Interaction and Engagement	Bussieres, Martin
229	DFO PB LLM Service	Pilot	Provide an approved DFO internal LLM as a service in a PBMM environment. After our team performed a year-long pilot project providing an unc...	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Korol, Oksana
4	Database Scripting Automation	Ideation	i would like to be able to review the scripts the DBAs run to ensure that we can automate and reduce the administrative workload. if possibl...	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Jeanveau, Denis
41	Cyber Security Operation	Production	Cyber Security Operation Centre has deployed AI/ML in MS Defender (Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) system), MS Sentinel (Security Inci...	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Jensen, Michael
230	Copilot Studio platform implementation	Ideation	With the growing interest from CDOS and the rest of the department on custom AI Chat Bots and Citizen Development, there is an opportunity t...	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Infrastructure and Enablement	Laplante, Stéphane
116	BinderBot: A Smart Planning Binder	Pilot	Employs AI-driven extraction to identify and compile the most relevant data from technical documents for the planning binder. Streamlines t...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Winegardner, Amanda

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Various Built-In AI Features (Co-pilot, ChatGPT, etc)
Using built-in AI features and functions in regular workflow operations. This includes LLM's such as ChatGPT, Microsoft Copilot, Gemini, and various others that are integrated directly into the applications already currently being used. Large Language Models

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
240
The Current
Don't let your harvested data get stuck in still water. Navigate new data streams with AI automation, augmentation and information enablement. The Current is a cloud-hosted platform that enables users anywhere in the department to ingest large volumes of structured and unstructured documents, extract data using optical character recognition and large language models, validate and review results through human-in-the-loop workflows, and relate extracted information using shared concepts and standards. The architecture emphasizes asynchronous processing, modular extraction services, strong traceability, and governance-ready design. The platform supports configurable extraction tasks, versioned models and definitions, auditable review processes, and future discovery of related research outputs and datasets across heterogeneous sources. As the initial use-case, the Text Intelligence and Data Extraction (TIDE) Service has been developed for the Salmon Habitat Restoration (SHARE) System. TIDE is a baseline iteration of The Current that fulfills the minimum viable product requirements of SHARE. TIDE focuses on digitizing, extracting, and modeling data from large unstructured text documents. TIDE establishes the baseline architecture and demonstrates a scalable workflow in Production.

Development Fisheries Management Perception and Understanding
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Statistical Downscaling for the Ocean Working Group (SD-Ocean)
The Canada-wide working group is open to researchers and practitioners in academia, government, and the non-profit sector. The WG will foster growth of a transdisciplenary research cluster at the forefront of the rapidly-developing field by sharing tools, devloping a network of practitioners, and working through specific examples (hackathons). The recent rapid growth in Artificial Intelligence (AI) provides a set of Machine Learning (ML) tools for statistical downscaling

Ideation Ecosystems and Oceans Science Infrastructure and Enablement
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RWS Language Weaver AI-Powered Translation Engine
The concept behind this idea is to significantly decrease the costs of translations while significantly improving the turnaround time of translations. A proven Large Language Model engine, used already by the Translation Bureau, would be used to use internal Machine Learning capabilities to learn the lexicon of DFO. The initiative could be considered for on-prem or in-cloud solutions. The data and information would be geo-fenced to within Canada. The option to procure the solution (in either format) is available on a Government of Canada standing offer through an S

Ideation Interaction and Engagement
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Recruitment and staffing tools
Recruitment and staffing tools (Mark Jarvis) (existing agents created by Microsoft to be explored further)

Ideation Chief Digital Officer Automation and Decision Support
43
PSPC Concierge
In partnership with CDOS and Pay Programs, we are agreeing to test the PSPC chatbot with 50 users, slated to start in June. This test will determine if a chatbot is a viable solution to answer generic pay quests.

Ideation Human Resources and Corporate Services Interaction and Engagement
117
PolyDocs: Format and Translate for CSAS
A modular, bilingually-optimized (EN/FR) application that automates the formatting, quality assurance, and standardization of complex Word documents to meet Government of Canada publishing requirements. The tool orchestrates a highly configurable, low-code assembly line that handles deep document cleanup (resolving fragmented text, localizing punctuation/number conventions, and rebuilding tables of contents), applies localized terminology glossaries, and reduces file sizes for accessibility.

Production Ecosystems and Oceans Science Automation and Decision Support
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PoC in Power Apps, Power Automate, and SharePoint
PoC in Power Apps, Power Automate, and SharePoint (Mark Jarvis) to have an efficient helpdesk; AI to review questions and predict templates and carry out actions (e.g., reset accounts, forward others to MyPay etc.)

Ideation Automation and Decision Support
12
P&C AI Chatbot for Pay
AI Chatbot for Pay to assist with pay questions and errors in LoO (PSPC led) DFO Pilot with PSPC Concierge Chatbot for HR & pay information Provides personalized HR and pay guidance when visiting MyGCPay Concierge provides answers and sources for general questions

Development Interaction and Engagement
167
Network model developing and testing with synthetic AI participants.
Qualitative network models (QNM) can incorporate uncertainty through an ensemble of rights holder and stakeholder inputs. Before, engaging these communities, QNMs should be tested and this can be done via the development of synthetic AI participants representing viewpoints to engage with potential social uncertainty before actual real world deployment

Ideation Ecosystems and Oceans Science Cognitive and Generative AI
14
MyPay HRMS Chatbot
HRMS Chatbot (Mark Jarvis)

Ideation Human Resources and Corporate Services Interaction and Engagement
15
MyGCHR Phoenix analysis
MYGCHR Phoenix analysis tool (Mark Jarvis) to flag incorrect records and recognize future incorrect entries to help cleanup pay files

Ideation Chief Digital Officer Automation and Decision Support
45
MyGCHR – Phoenix analysis tool
Pro B data would be needed, but feed MyGCHR and Phoenix records, but flag those that are incorrect in the hopes of training the AI to recognize future incorrect entries and to help clean up pay files for employees. P&C is in negotiation currently with PSPC to ‘own’ our backlog of Phoenix cases, so this could be a big help.

Ideation Human Resources and Corporate Services Automation and Decision Support
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Help DFO employees navigate CDOS structure and services
CDOS is a large and complex organisation. Leverage AI to help DFO user access services, understand organization structure, identify SME. Expose know procedures and documentation through natural language. Using enterprise search, agents and other tools and technologies. Integrate existing tools such as Viva topics that already uses AI to identify expert based on multiple communication channels Right now multiple initiatives goes in this direction, but no unified vision, (pocket of knowledge) Currently not a great user experience, cdos internal staff oriented

Ideation Chief Digital Officer Interaction and Engagement
229
DFO PB LLM Service
Provide an approved DFO internal LLM as a service in a PBMM environment. After our team performed a year-long pilot project providing an unclassified internal GenAI models for 14 teams to develop their custom chatbots, we have collected feedback and identified gaps in the availability of GenAI at DFO. One of the biggest gaps was the need for a secure model to be used with private or classified data. Our cloud platform is certified up to PBMM, so we are working to identify, deploy and approve an internal large language model (LLM), as well as make it available to DFO users through API. IT security team is involved in helping us secure and certify the model for use at DFO.

Pilot Chief Digital Officer Cognitive and Generative AI
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Database Scripting Automation
i would like to be able to review the scripts the DBAs run to ensure that we can automate and reduce the administrative workload. if possible we would then be able to provide more opporutnities for the group to do more architecturing then Administrative updates. haven'T delved this through, but i think it would be high value.

Ideation Chief Digital Officer Automation and Decision Support
41
Cyber Security Operation
Cyber Security Operation Centre has deployed AI/ML in MS Defender (Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) system), MS Sentinel (Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) system), Data Lost Prevention (DLP), and Exchange Online Protection (EOP) for real-time threat detection.

Production Chief Digital Officer Automation and Decision Support
230
Copilot Studio platform implementation
With the growing interest from CDOS and the rest of the department on custom AI Chat Bots and Citizen Development, there is an opportunity to increase IT enablement through the use of low code solutions. Since the department has already invested indirectly in the Power Platform, it makes sense to extend that investment into the proper implementation of Microsoft Copilot Studio which is another tool from the Power Platform rapid development platform.

Ideation Chief Digital Officer Infrastructure and Enablement
116
BinderBot: A Smart Planning Binder
Employs AI-driven extraction to identify and compile the most relevant data from technical documents for the planning binder. Streamlines the planning binder process by automatically assembling targeted, information ready for executive review. Saves valuable administrative time and ensures that binder materials are both comprehensive and user-friendly.

Pilot Ecosystems and Oceans Science Automation and Decision Support