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ID	AI Initiative	Stage	Description	Sector	Region	AI Bucket	SME
49	Salmon Fence Counting	Pilot	A model using computer vision to analyze water stream fence video-footage, to simultanously count the number of and predict the species of s...	Programs Sector	Pacific	Perception and Understanding Computer Vision	Quan, Eric
50	Salmon Data Digitization (See B22, B26)	Pilot	Digitizing non-machine-readable (handwritten) documents and extracts characters into a digital format so that it is accessible, editable, an...	Programs Sector	Pacific	Perception and Understanding Multimodal AI	Quan, Eric
51	EN/FR Translation Model	Pilot	A large language model that is trained on the Translations Bureau’s and DFO's language-characteristics (i.e. grammar, annotation, syntax, wo...	Programs Sector	Pacific	Interaction and Engagement Translation and Accessibility	Quan, Eric
52	"Chumputer Vision" (see B32) Salmon Scale Aging	Pilot	A model using computer vision to look at images of salmon scale and predict the age of salmon and also monitor its ring growth. CNN and YOL...	Programs Sector	Pacific	Perception and Understanding Computer Vision	Quan, Eric
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 Conversational AI and Virtual Assistants	Quan, Eric
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 Robotic Process Automation with AI	Quan, Eric
7	Virtual ITSD agent for clients	Ideation	The next phase for ITSD involves deploying a client-facing chatbot. This virtual assistant will allow DFO employees to interact directly wit...	Chief Digital Officer	Quebec	Interaction and Engagement Conversational AI and Virtual Assistants	Miousse, Gaétan
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 Knowledge Management	Johnston, Diane
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 Translation and Accessibility	Johnston, Diane
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 Robotic Process Automation with AI	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 Conversational AI and Virtual Assistants	Gardner, Leigh
11	Procurement Chatbot	Production	The purpose of the Procurement Chatbot is to provide timely, accurate, and consistent information to users regarding procurement practices a...	—	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement Conversational AI and Virtual Assistants	Gardner, Leigh
9	SAP AI Chatbot	Ideation	SAP AI Chatbot to reduce support requests that need FMA resources	—	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement Conversational AI and Virtual Assistants	Gardner, Leigh
3	Labels Pilot	Pilot	We are looking into using Labels back end for smart labels as well as a free copilot agent for the departement to use in order to validate a...	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support Robotic Process Automation with AI	Bartoli, Saul
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 Robotic Process Automation with AI	Jeanveau, Denis
5	ITSD knowledge content improvement	Pilot	The DFO IT Service Desk is leveraging generative AI (usually Copilot) to enhance its knowledge base articles and Assyst FAQs, which is knowl...	Chief Digital Officer	Quebec	Cognitive and Generative AI Generative AI (text, images, code)	Miousse, Gaétan
6	ITSD internal chatbot	Development	ITSD is currently implementing a simple chatbot leveraging Copilot, to streamline access to its knowledge base for our agents. This initiati...	Chief Digital Officer	Quebec	Interaction and Engagement Conversational AI and Virtual Assistants	Miousse, Gaétan
24	Automated Identification of Vessel Fishing Activity	Pilot	Piloting use of vessel AIS data with AI to predict probable fishing activity and provide near real time alerts to officers, aiming to boost...	Programs Sector	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support Predictive Analytics	Bédard, Mathieu
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 Robotic Process Automation with AI	Gardner, Leigh
10	AI Agent for EGCS	Ideation	AI Agent for EGCS to evaluate Gs&Cs applications from external applicants (not until 2026-27)	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Automation and Decision Support Robotic Process Automation with AI	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 Predictive Analytics	Gardner, Leigh
16	P&C General Chatbot	Ideation	P&C General Chatbot (Mark Jarvis) to guide employees to P&C services instead of using the intranet	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement Conversational AI and Virtual Assistants	Gardner, Leigh
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 Robotic Process Automation with AI	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 Generative AI (text, images, code)	Gardner, Leigh
20	IM Chatbot	Development	Chatbot to answer Information Management related questions, based on information available on the IM intranet site. This is a work in progr...	Chief Digital Officer	National Capital Region	Interaction and Engagement Conversational AI and Virtual Assistants	Mojgani, Susan

49
Salmon Fence Counting
A model using computer vision to analyze water stream fence video-footage, to simultanously count the number of and predict the species of salmon. YOLO 11 Chinook trained on 735 annotated frames from 63 videos Coho trained on 432 annotated frames from 44 videos Sockeye trained on 1149 annotated frames from 36 videos Chum untrained (annotation of 1368 frames from 43 videos in progress) Pink Humpback

Pilot Programs Sector Perception and Understanding Computer Vision
50
Salmon Data Digitization (See B22, B26)
Digitizing non-machine-readable (handwritten) documents and extracts characters into a digital format so that it is accessible, editable, and useable for analysis. Document Intelligence - Custom Classification and Extraction Model Azure OpenAI GPT4o mini Data and Information from ~45,000 pages have been digitized

Pilot Programs Sector Perception and Understanding Multimodal AI
51
EN/FR Translation Model
A large language model that is trained on the Translations Bureau’s and DFO's language-characteristics (i.e. grammar, annotation, syntax, words, scientific term) context. The model’s enables translation to be like those by the Translation Bureau. Training on large database of scientific documents (published by Canadian Science Advisory Secretariat) to understand scientific terminology is currently in progress. MADLAD 400 10B (Initially trained on sample of ~100 translated documents, in progress of additional training with published CSAS documents going back to year 2000)

Pilot Programs Sector Interaction and Engagement Translation and Accessibility
52
"Chumputer Vision" (see B32) Salmon Scale Aging
A model using computer vision to look at images of salmon scale and predict the age of salmon and also monitor its ring growth. CNN and YOLO 9. Currently trained on 1478 images.

Pilot Programs Sector Perception and Understanding Computer Vision
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 Conversational AI and Virtual Assistants
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 Robotic Process Automation with AI
7
Virtual ITSD agent for clients
The next phase for ITSD involves deploying a client-facing chatbot. This virtual assistant will allow DFO employees to interact directly with a virtual technician who can guide them to the appropriate IT services on the portal, provide links to FAQs, and offer 24/7 support for simple issues. This will enable our technical staff to focus on more complex tasks that require their expertise.

Ideation Chief Digital Officer Interaction and Engagement Conversational AI and Virtual Assistants
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 Knowledge Management
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 Translation and Accessibility
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 Robotic Process Automation with AI
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 Conversational AI and Virtual Assistants
11
Procurement Chatbot
The purpose of the Procurement Chatbot is to provide timely, accurate, and consistent information to users regarding procurement practices and procedures. This initiative aims to improve client experience, streamline communication, and reduce the manual workload currently required by Procurement staff responding to frequent and repetitive queries.

Production Interaction and Engagement Conversational AI and Virtual Assistants
9
SAP AI Chatbot
SAP AI Chatbot to reduce support requests that need FMA resources

Ideation Interaction and Engagement Conversational AI and Virtual Assistants
3
Labels Pilot
We are looking into using Labels back end for smart labels as well as a free copilot agent for the departement to use in order to validate a user's classification. if we could fund the "query" fund for the user community we could point the Free agent to consume DFO specific Information on Information Classification. as for the other option we will need to ensure we have items to feed the machine learning.

Pilot Chief Digital Officer Automation and Decision Support Robotic Process Automation with AI
4
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 Robotic Process Automation with AI
5
ITSD knowledge content improvement
The DFO IT Service Desk is leveraging generative AI (usually Copilot) to enhance its knowledge base articles and Assyst FAQs, which is knowledge intended for clients. This includes creating new knowledge articles, validating and improving existing content, translating materials, and tailoring messaging to different audiences.

Pilot Chief Digital Officer Cognitive and Generative AI Generative AI (text, images, code)
6
ITSD internal chatbot
ITSD is currently implementing a simple chatbot leveraging Copilot, to streamline access to its knowledge base for our agents. This initiative aims to further improve the speed and quality of service provided by our technicians by enabling them to quickly locate the information they need to provide support and service to clients.

Development Chief Digital Officer Interaction and Engagement Conversational AI and Virtual Assistants
24
Automated Identification of Vessel Fishing Activity
Piloting use of vessel AIS data with AI to predict probable fishing activity and provide near real time alerts to officers, aiming to boost compliance coverage and response. Action plan for this initiative: 1. Governance: Supervised under compliance analytics team, reporting to C & P management. 2. Guardrails: Apply strict controls (no personal data), validate accuracy in live pilots, monitoring for unintended use.

Pilot Programs Sector Automation and Decision Support Predictive Analytics
8
SAP AI Agent
SAP AI Agent to validate financial transaction coding with invoices

Ideation Chief Digital Officer Automation and Decision Support Robotic Process Automation with AI
10
AI Agent for EGCS
AI Agent for EGCS to evaluate Gs&Cs applications from external applicants (not until 2026-27)

Ideation Chief Digital Officer Automation and Decision Support Robotic Process Automation with AI
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 Predictive Analytics
16
P&C General Chatbot
P&C General Chatbot (Mark Jarvis) to guide employees to P&C services instead of using the intranet

Ideation Chief Digital Officer Interaction and Engagement Conversational AI and Virtual Assistants
17
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 Robotic Process Automation with AI
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 Generative AI (text, images, code)
20
IM Chatbot
Chatbot to answer Information Management related questions, based on information available on the IM intranet site. This is a work in progress.

Development Chief Digital Officer Interaction and Engagement Conversational AI and Virtual Assistants