Here's the Company That Sold DHS ICE's Notorious Face Recognition App

On Wednesday, the Department of Homeland Security published new details about Mobile Fortify, the facial recognition app that federal immigration agents use as a method to identify people in the field, undocumented immigrants and United States citizens alike. The details, including the company behind the app, were published as part of DHS’s 2025 AI Use Case Inventory, which federal agencies are required to release periodically.

The inventory includes two entries for Mobile Fortify—one for Customs and Border Protection, another for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE)—and says the app is in the “deployment” stage for both. CBP says that Mobile Fortify became “operational” at the beginning of May last year, while ICE got access to it on May 20, 2025. That date is about a month before 404 Media first reported on the app’s existence.

The inventory also identified the app’s vendor as NEC, which had ...