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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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Agency: TREAS · Department of the TreasuryAI type: Natural language processing

Practice-by-practice evidence

Denominator: 15 records · all use cases in the current filter
No answer reported
PracticeIn scopeIn placeIn progressNot in placeN/APrecluded or waivedOtherNo answerAnsweredIn place of applicable
Pre-deployment testing15000000150%0% of 15
AI impact assessment15000000150%0% of 15
Independent review15000000150%0% of 15
Ongoing monitoring15000000150%0% of 15
Operator training15000000150%0% of 15
Fail-safe15000000150%0% of 15
Appeal process15000000150%0% of 15
User and public consultation15000000150%0% of 15

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
TREAS––––––––15

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

15 records with at least one practice unanswered or in progressOpen in explorer
Use caseStageTestAIAReviewMonitorTrainFail-safeAppealConsult
SBSE - Payments Topics Chatbot
TREAS · TREAS-01
DeployedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reported
Answering Employee Questions with Natural Language Processing in IRWorks
TREAS · TREAS-124
DeployedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reported
DATA Act Bot for Procurement Data Matching
TREAS · TREAS-17
DeployedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reported
Taxpayer Services Chatbot
TREAS · TREAS-24
DeployedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reported
Employee Resource Center (ERC) Chatbot
TREAS · TREAS-77
DeployedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reported
Tax Disclosure Text Clustering
TREAS · TREAS-98
DeployedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reported
Employee Retention Credit Text Clustering
TREAS · TREAS-99
DeployedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reported
Line-Item Consolidation for Form 1120
TREAS · TREAS-IRS-4
DeployedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reported
Procurement Data Transparency, Reporting, & Decision Tracking
TREAS · TREAS-IRS-61
DeployedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reported
AskBEP AI ChatBot
TREAS · BEP-1
PilotNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reported
USAspending Natural Language Search Initiative
TREAS · REQ-2024-01948
PilotNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reported
Open source Python library and models for NLP
TREAS · REQ-2024-02035
PilotNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reported
Accounts Management “Balance Due” Call Transcript Classification
TREAS · TREAS-IRS-56
PilotNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reported
F1023 Hybrid NLP and ML Pipeline
TREAS · TREAS-IRS-63
Pre-deploymentNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reportedNo answer reported
Using AI to analyze Taxpayer Burden Survey open-ended responses
TREAS · TREAS-IRS-95
Pre-deploymentNo 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

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