Other Strategies & Documents

This strategy will provide the flexibility to accommodate our evolving understanding of AI and the technology encompassed in its various definitions through four enterprise goals. First, the Department will cultivate an AI-ready workforce by addressing gaps in knowledge, risks, and capabilities through training, recruitment, and retention. Second, the use of AI models and algorithms are only as good as the data used to design, validate, and test them; by leveraging data efforts laid out by DOJ’s Data Strategy and Data Governance Board, we will quickly implement AI data standards and maximize the appropriate use and reuse of training data. Third, the Department will promote ethical and efficient governance of AI in accordance with established law, guidance, principles, and best practices to provide clear guardrails for DOJ Offices, Boards, Divisions, and Bureaus (collectively known as Components) as they apply AI to their missions. Fourth, through pilots and knowledge sharing, DOJ will accelerate the adoption of AI and allow mission operators and stakeholders to realize greatly improved capabilities implemented in a manner consistent with government-wide principles and Department guidance.

The purpose of the DOJ Data Strategy is to promote awareness, use, and reuse of DOJ data assets to the maximum extent possible, without superseding the DOJ component responsibility in determining what information must be shared or with whom. This Strategy is a roadmap for developing and maturing enterprise data capabilities. Any DOJ component-level data strategy must align with this Strategy, thereby affirming DOJ component responsibility to actively manage, appropriately share, and make decisions about their data based on business cases and legal requirements. DOJ component CDOs and CIOs continue to work with their data stewards, system owners, and records managers to identify opportunities across their respective data community (e.g., law enforcement, legal, etc.) to help determine if what they are doing might be useful to another member of the community, or inform an enterprise or community standard or policy.

As a covered agency under the Geospatial Data Act (GDA) of 2018, the Department of Justice (DOJ or Department) is required to “prepare, maintain, publish, and implement a strategy for advancing geographic information and related geospatial data and activities appropriate to the mission of the covered agency, in support of the strategic plan for the National Spatial Data Infrastructure (NSDI).” This Geospatial Data Strategy supplements the overall DOJ Data Strategy, supports the Department’s overall data efforts, and aligns responsibilities from the GDA to the Data Strategy in order to maximize the utility of DOJ’s geospatial data assets.