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Snapshot · OMB 2025 inventory · processed Oct 11, 2026
Governance and accountability

Governance evidence

What agencies reported about the OMB M-25-21 minimum practices for high-impact AI. This is a disclosure analysis, not an audit, a compliance finding or an official assessment. An unanswered question is missing evidence, not evidence that a safeguard is absent.

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Only records with a parseable start date match a year filter.

Agency: DHS · Department of Homeland SecurityStage: Pilot

Practice-by-practice evidence

Denominator: 8 records · all use cases in the current filter
Reported in placeReported in progressNot applicableOther or ambiguous answerNo answer reported
PracticeIn scopeIn placeIn progressNot in placeN/APrecluded or waivedOtherNo answerAnsweredIn place of applicable
Pre-deployment testing8010000713%0% of 8
AI impact assessment8010000713%0% of 8
Independent review8010000713%0% of 8
Ongoing monitoring8010000713%0% of 8
Operator training8010000713%0% of 8
Fail-safe8100000713%13% of 8
Appeal process8000100713%0% of 7
User and public consultation8000001713%0% of 8

Answered = records with any answer ÷ records in scope. In place of applicable = reported in place ÷ (in scope minus not applicable, precluded and waived). Unanswered records stay in that denominator, so the rate is a lower bound on reported evidence, not an estimate of real practice.

Agency-by-safeguard heatmap

Cell: share reported in place, among applicable recordsIn placeAnswered
Agency by governance practice
TestingImpact assess.Indep. reviewMonitoringTrainingFail-safeAppealConsultationn
DHS0%0%0%0%0%13%0%0%8

Hatched cells: the agency answered nothing for that practice, so there is no evidence either way. Compare agencies with care: each agency is one reporting unit, and portfolios differ in size and type.

Records requiring further investigation

8 records with at least one practice unanswered or in progressOpen in explorer
Use caseStageTestAIAReviewMonitorTrainFail-safeAppealConsult
FLIR 280 HD
DHS · DHS-2745
PilotReported in progressReported in progressReported in progressReported in progressReported in progressReported in placeNot applicableOther or ambiguous answer
Acoustic Signature AI for Gunshot Detection
DHS · DHS-2572
PilotNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reported
Facial Recognition for National Security and Transnational Criminal Organizations
DHS · DHS-2729
PilotNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reported
Non-Intrusive Inspection (NII) 3D Imaging Tool
DHS · DHS-163
PilotNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reported
Hazard Mitigation Assistance Chatbot
DHS · DHS-2439
PilotNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reported
Technical Resource for Mitigation Programs
DHS · DHS-2711
PilotNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reported
Large Language Model (LLM) Guided Data Dictionary Generation
DHS · DHS-2727
PilotNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reported
LIGER Generative AI Toolkit
DHS · DHS-2454
PilotNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reported

Unanswered analytical questions

Generated from the data; for follow-up with agencies
  1. 1 high-impact use cases mark an appeal process as not applicable. On what basis was each individual outcome judged not contestable?

These are questions the inventory raises but cannot answer. They are not findings of non-compliance.