The HTxAI movement

The HTxAI movement with Chief Executive Chan Tsan (front row, 5th from left) at their Jan 2025 townhall. Seated next to CE Chan Tsan is Assistant Chief Executive (Digital & Enterprise) and Chief AI Officer Ang Chee Wee. Also in the front row are Chief Innovation Officer, Chief Cloud Engineer and Director xCloud Ng Pan Yong (left), Acting Director xDigital Joseph Tan (2nd from left), Acting Director Sense-Making & Surveillance CoE Christopher Sia (3rd from left), Chief Data Officer, Deputy Chief AI Officer, Director xData, and Director AI Central Lim Kian Boon (3rd from right), Director xCDI Vincent Ho (2nd from right), and Director Q Team CoE Ng Gee Wah (right) (Photo: HTX)

With its mission of advancing science and technology, force multiplying the Home Team, and securing Singapore’s future, HTX has been applying cutting-edge developments in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to public safety and security.

With advancements in machine learning and deep learning, which have laid the foundations for Generative AI, HTX’s AI engineers are harnessing Generative AI’s powerful capabilities to build innovative AI solutions to enhance homeland security and improve the Home Team’s citizen services.

Together, these constitute the HTxAI movement, which was announced on 1 June 2024. (“HTxAI” is the abbreviation for “Home Team multiplied by AI”.)

AI Strategy

The HTxAI movement is aligned with Singapore’s National AI Strategy (NAIS 2.0) to position Singapore as a global leader in AI by 2030. As part of its AI strategy, the HTxAI movement will leverage partnerships and collaborations with industry and academia to strengthen HTX’s internal AI capabilities and advance its AI research and development (R&D).

Organisation

The HTxAI movement consists of the following units, which extend across the agency:

AI Central

The AI Central division manages, tracks, and supports overall AI functions across HTX. It consists of the following sub-areas:

AI Masterplanning, Governance & Collaboration: Manage, track and support overall AI functions across HTX; develop and ensure AI Governance regulatory & standards compliance; ecosystem outreach, partnerships & collaborations
AI Solutions & Design: Engage Home Team Department (HTD) stakeholders, facilitate service design workshops, and ensure proposed solutions meet objectives and user needs
AI Training & Competency: Foster an AI-Ready workforce by through implementing structured AI Training programmes and competency frameworks that equips HTX officers with the latest AI skills and knowledge
AI Assurance: Develop AI verification and validation (V&V) frameworks to evaluate AI models and establish best practices to ensure development of trusted AI products

AI Enablers

The HTxAI movement also includes the following enablers:

AI Platform (xCloud): Enhance developer experience; develop, operate, and maintain secure DevSecOps pipelines and productivity tools for continuous AI development in classified environments
AI Infrastructure (xCloud): Design and build a robust and scalable AI compute infrastructure for classified applications, accelerating Home Team’s development and adoption of AI including compute-intensive Gen-AI applications
AI Data Engineering (xData): Design and implement the data infrastructure, including data connectors and pipelines that support AI model development and deployment, ensuring data governance, quality, and security
AI Network Infrastructure and Security Development (xCDI): Architects and leads the implementation of scalable, secure and high-performance enterprise network and security infrastructure optimised for AI compute environments, ensuring efficient data flow and robust protection for enterprise AI workloads

AI R&D

The HTxAI movement’s Research & Development (R&D) areas include:

Multi-modal AI & Agentic AI: Seamless integration of language, vision, and other modalities for comprehensive understanding and situational awareness, and enhanced user interactions for more comprehensive understanding. AI Agents can act autonomously and effectively interact with their environment with enhanced factual consistency and relevance of generated content
Language AI: Speech-to-text capabilities, enhanced language understanding (including nuances, slang and context) and broader language support to improve global accessibility and inclusivity
Embodied AI: Advanced Robotics Capabilities such as navigation using AI Vision, and Human-Robot Collaboration through natural language conversations, to augment human in the three Ds - Dangerous, Dull and Dirty tasks
Vision AI: Improved accuracy in image and video processing, precision of object detection, recognition, and classification and vision-AI techniques such as deep-fake detection
Emerging AI: Accelerate innovative technologies, applications and opportunities for AI in Homeland Security & Enforcement
AI Safety & Security: Advanced defences and detection to safeguard against adversarial attacks and manipulations

The following HTX divisions are engaged in AI R&D projects:

AI Products

The HTxAI movement focuses on building impactful solutions in 3 key areas:

Improving citizen experience: The way the Home Team interfaces with citizens would be improved significantly with the aid of AI e.g. AI virtual assistant
Improving employee experience and productivity: Using AI to augment or automate repetitive manual tasks, enabling home team officers to focus on more value-added tasks
Improving mission outcomes: Using an AI-first approach. AI-first means whatever the mission at hand is, using AI to solve the problem and achieve an outcome that would be superior to what would be possible without applying AI

The following HTX divisions are building AI products for the Home Team: