# The US Department of Justice's ATF reports its deployed tool First Two automates map-based pattern discovery and cuts manual data plotting in geospatial analysis, running since January 2021

Page: https://flyvolo.ai/en/changes/ev-20210101-gis-analyst-8
Date: 2021-01-01 · Stage: Deployment
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## Scope

United States, Department of Justice, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF). The agency's own entry in the 2025 Federal Agency AI Use Case Inventory, marked deployed and operational since January 2021 (day not stated), says its First Two system automates map-based data correlation, pattern discovery and geospatial analysis, reducing manual data plotting and interpretation for investigative and intelligence work. This is one federal law-enforcement agency's account of its own tool; it speaks to geospatial pattern analysis as a form of spatial analysis, not to civilian GIS roles such as urban planning or land surveying, and it reports no staffing, headcount or time measurements.

## Source

- Office of Management and Budget — 2025 Federal Agency AI Use Case Inventory, individually reported use cases (Department of Justice / ATF entry DOJ-0018, First Two) — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/ombegov/2025-Federal-Agency-AI-Use-Case-Inventory/3c225ba8438e48306ace7698c8c7feb9486cbc69/Data/2025_individually_reported_AI_use_cases.csv (primary source)

## What this means

Software now carries out a chunk of the geospatial pattern analysis that used to mean plotting and reading maps by hand: at least one federal law-enforcement agency's deployed system automates map-based data correlation and pattern discovery, so an analyst's part shifts toward framing the question and checking what the system surfaces.

## What it does not show yet

This is one federal agency's account of one investigative tool; it does not measure civilian GIS work such as site selection or urban planning, and it reports no change in staffing, headcount or how analysts spend their time.

## How to verify it yourself

If your GIS work touches investigative or intelligence mapping, ask whether your organisation already runs a map-correlation tool like this one, and if so, what part of your current workflow it would take over first.


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