A group of hackers has released a massive database from the Department of Homeland Security's Office of Industry Partnership, and it reveals the full scope of the AI surveillance apparatus being assembled on American soil. Published by Distributed Denial of Secrets, the data exposes contracts for AI that predicts crime from 911 calls, airport systems that profile you by your clothing and body shape, facial recognition on every ICE agent's phone, and Palantir's ELITE system — which uses Medicaid data to map neighborhoods for immigration raids.Some of what DHS is buying is perfectly reasonable — like machine learning tools to detect new synthetic opioids. But the volume and pace of this procurement is staggering: 238 active AI use cases, a nearly 40% increase in six months, and roughly 80% of them without documented risk management. A critical federal deadline on April 3rd is supposed to force agencies to implement safeguards or shut down high-impact AI tools. Whether that actually happens will tell us a lot about how seriously anyone in government takes oversight of this stuff.I go through the key contracts, explain what they mean, and connect them to the longer pattern of surveillance tech that I've been covering — including predictive policing failures and ICE's Mobile Fortify deployment. The full written analysis is available for paid subscribers at The Rip Current.Originally published at The Rip Current. Paid subscribers get early access + full transcripts: https://theripcurrent.com