AI initiative registry

Every initiative listed in the registry can be consulted here, without an account. Each record shows its progress, its milestones and the history of its decisions. Requests still under triage do not appear: they join the registry once reviewed.

Filter

Search titles and descriptions

Sector

Program

Stage

Region

Strategic alignment

AI category

AI sub-category

AI capability

Prime Minister's mandate commitment

Scope

Declared to TBS On hold

Reset

198 current initiative(s)

AI initiative registry
ID	AI Initiative	Stage	Description	Sector	Region	AI Bucket	SME
201	Maximize detections with AI of the aquatic autonomous environmental DNA (eDNA) sampler	Ideation	This Canadian apparatus provides detections of aquatic species through a standardized and reproducible method. Algorithms of AI analyze data...	—	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Winegardner, Amanda
219	Fish-Habitat Associations	Ideation	Extraction of relevant habitat association info and strengths based on vetted literature input to AI for synthesis. Goal to improve equival...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Ontario and Prairie	Cognitive and Generative AI	Klein, David
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
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
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
76	Chumputer Vision - salmon scale age predictive AI (See B8)	Ideation	Deep Machine Learning and Convolutional Neural Network application for the predictive application of age assignment of Chum salmon by way of...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Perception and Understanding	Wischniowski, Stephen
57	CSAS Knowledge Graph	Ideation	Using LLM to extract ontologies and relationships within published CSAS reports into a Graph RAG so that users can visualize and query relat...	Programs Sector	Pacific	Cognitive and Generative AI	Quan, Eric
62	Deep sea habitat, organism and object detection and identification.	Ideation	Proposing a capstone project to Computer Science students from Camosun College to develop a pipeline for identifying objects and loading the...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Perception and Understanding	Best, Merlin
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
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
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
72	Extracting impacts data from regulatory documents	Ideation	Use OCR pdf readers, topic detection and language models to detect specific data elements inside written text documents, for extraction and...	Ecosystems and Oceans Science	Pacific	Perception and Understanding	Bird, Tom
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
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
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
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
26	Generative AI in intranet Internet content creation	Ideation	Integrate Generative AI capacity right into Drupal CMS to help users create draft content, ease translation, generate images, tags and metad...	Chief Digital Officer	Quebec	Cognitive and Generative AI	Bussieres, Martin
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
8	SAP AI Agent	Ideation	SAP AI Agent to validate financial transaction coding with invoices	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support	Gardner, Leigh
9	SAP AI Chatbot	Ideation	SAP AI Chatbot to reduce support requests that need FMA resources	—	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement	Gardner, Leigh
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
14	MyPay HRMS Chatbot	Ideation	HRMS Chatbot (Mark Jarvis)	Human Resources and Corporate Services	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement	Gardner, Leigh
18	Classification AI	Ideation	Classification AI (Mark Jarvis) to help with the creation of job descriptions/tasks and analyze job descriptions to help with SoMCs	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Gardner, Leigh
21	CSAS Knowledge Base Creation	Ideation	This solution leverages the Radia AI Assistant developed by the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED). The purp...	—	National Capital Region	Cognitive and Generative AI	Johnston, Diane

201
Maximize detections with AI of the aquatic autonomous environmental DNA (eDNA) sampler
This Canadian apparatus provides detections of aquatic species through a standardized and reproducible method. Algorithms of AI analyze data from buoy-mounted sensors to determine optimal sampling windows, such as the presence of toxic phytoplankton bloom, and to perform quality assurance on sampling metadata.

Ideation Automation and Decision Support
219
Fish-Habitat Associations
Extraction of relevant habitat association info and strengths based on vetted literature input to AI for synthesis. Goal to improve equivalency models used in regulatory decisions. Possible partnership with McMaster University.

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
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
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
76
Chumputer Vision - salmon scale age predictive AI (See B8)
Deep Machine Learning and Convolutional Neural Network application for the predictive application of age assignment of Chum salmon by way of scale images. Chum salmon has been selected as the gateway species due to its relatively easy scale pattern interpretation, this will foster the pathway forward for Chinook, Coho Sockeye and Herring as future targets for AI age interpretation. Deep Machine Learning and Convolutional Neural Network within a Python predictive algorithm

Ideation Ecosystems and Oceans Science Perception and Understanding
57
CSAS Knowledge Graph
Using LLM to extract ontologies and relationships within published CSAS reports into a Graph RAG so that users can visualize and query relationships between researches

Ideation Programs Sector Cognitive and Generative AI
62
Deep sea habitat, organism and object detection and identification.
Proposing a capstone project to Computer Science students from Camosun College to develop a pipeline for identifying objects and loading the results into Biigle for human review. TBD.

Ideation Ecosystems and Oceans Science Perception and Understanding
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
73
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
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
72
Extracting impacts data from regulatory documents
Use OCR pdf readers, topic detection and language models to detect specific data elements inside written text documents, for extraction and analysis in a cumulative impacts context. Large lanugage models and topic clustering tools

Ideation Ecosystems and Oceans Science Perception and Understanding
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
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
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
25
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
26
Generative AI in intranet Internet content creation
Integrate Generative AI capacity right into Drupal CMS to help users create draft content, ease translation, generate images, tags and metadata. Technologie already exists, need to be security reviewed, integrated and configured. Challenge, web infrastructure team capacity

Ideation Chief Digital Officer Cognitive and Generative AI
19
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
8
SAP AI Agent
SAP AI Agent to validate financial transaction coding with invoices

Ideation Chief Digital Officer Automation and Decision Support
9
SAP AI Chatbot
SAP AI Chatbot to reduce support requests that need FMA resources

Ideation Interaction and Engagement
13
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
14
MyPay HRMS Chatbot
HRMS Chatbot (Mark Jarvis)

Ideation Human Resources and Corporate Services Interaction and Engagement
18
Classification AI
Classification AI (Mark Jarvis) to help with the creation of job descriptions/tasks and analyze job descriptions to help with SoMCs

Ideation Chief Digital Officer Cognitive and Generative AI
21
CSAS Knowledge Base Creation
This solution leverages the Radia AI Assistant developed by the Department of Innovation, Science and Economic Development (ISED). The purpose of the initiative is to create a knowledge base of CSAS publications from the last 25 years. This knowledge base would allow anyone to leverage the AI Assistant to extract trends, data, and information in such a way as to plot new visualizations by unleashing the information held within the publication repository. This initiative has a Statement of Work with ISED and it is being scoped out for amount of work and cost. All indicators to date show that this is a very workable knowledge base development.

Ideation Cognitive and Generative AI