2. *Government Decision Making
*Requirements for Results
*Factors in formal decision
making
*Steps to develop data analytics
*Artificial Intelligence
*Deploying AI in government
*Case Study: Office of Justice
Programs--Public Safety Grants
*Q&A
3. GOVERNMENT DECISION
MAKING
*Importance of structured, formal decision making
process
*Continued development of e-government leading to
autonomous decision making based on AI
*Increasing requirements for performance
4. *1993: Government Performance and Results Act (GPRA)
*2002: President’s Management Agenda (PMA)
*2004: Program Assessment Rating Tool (PART)
*2009: Evidence –based policy push
*2011: GPRA Modernization Act (GPRAMA)
*2016: FedStat
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5. FACTORS IN FORMAL
DECISION MAKING
*Identify and weight objectives
*Analyze stakeholders
*Identify and assess risk
*Set Indicators for measuring
outcomes
*Determine if objectives were met
➢input to subsequent decisions
7. ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE
*Computer reasoning based on
logic and deduction
*Learn, reason, and make
decisions
*Monitor, discover, predict,
interpret
*Text analysis
*Perform cognitive functions
*Produce text In the financial press today,
many routine articles are
produced by AI
8. APPLYING AI TO
GOVRNMENT PROGRAMS
*Identify tax-evasion patterns
*Prioritize child welfare cases
*Bridge inspections
*Predict spread of infectious
diseases
*Select among proposals for a
project
9. DEPLOYING AI IN GOVERNMENT
*77% of government leaders want to take a more aggressive
approach to adopt AI
*75% say AI is at least moderately to fully functional
*48% plan to improve process automation and 41% analytical
capabilities over next two years
*71% say their employees are ready for AI
*75% are to upskilling employees
*But it is a challenge to select the best AI technologies
*Risks they see include cybersecurity breaches, privacy violations
*82% believe that government should be involved I regulation
- KPMG
Implementing AI can be seen as a
part of change management
10. CASE STUDY
*Does not itself carry out law
enforcement activities.
*Works in partnership with federal,
state, and local law enforcement
agencies
*R&D assistance to state, local, and
tribal criminal justice agencies
*Activities cover law enforcement,
corrections, and juvenile justice
Office of Justice Programs
Focuses on crime prevention
11. OJP Offices
*Office of Juvenile Justice and
Delinquency Prevention
*Office of Sex Offender
Sentencing, Monitoring,
Apprehending, Registering, and
Tracking
*Victims of Crime.
*Bureau of Justice Assistance
*Bureau of Justice Statistics
*National Institute of Justice
12. Public Safety Grants
*$2 billion annually in
grants
*2,000 grantees
OJP seeks to administer its grant awards process in a fair,
accessible, and transparent fashion and manage the grant
system in a manner that avoids waste, fraud, and abuse.
13. Example Grant Funding
*Cold Case Investigations and Training
*Substance Abuse Treatment for State Prisoners
*Protecting Inmates and Safeguarding Communities
*Community Entry Program
*Preventing Wrongful convictions
*Adult Drug Court and Veterans Treatment Court
14. Old Grant Funds Distribution Process
*No consistent approach
*No standard process to determine who received grants
*Individual grant managers used their own judgment based
on their knowledge of he applicants
*Time consuming
15. New Analytics
*Began to use operational
data for decision support
*Moving to objective
techniques
*Pulled disparate data
systems together
*Automated review process
16. Benefits
*Increased consistency in
allocation of funds
*Greater efficiency in review
process
*Substantial reduction in time
to capture data and analyze
proposals
*Performance measurement
*Regular collection of data
*To demonstrate program
progress and success
*To meet performance
requirements
Grant resources are now distributed based on
hard data rather than subjective opinion
17. OJP Performance Measurement Tools
Justice Grants System
(JustGrants)
Performance Measurement Tool
(PMT)
Data Collection and Technical
Assistance Tool (DCTAT)
Trafficking Information
Management System (TIMS)
