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Federal AI landscape: executive briefing

Filtered: topic = Science; AI type = nlp

Generated 2026-10-12 05:54 UTCDataset: 2025 Federal Agency AI Use Case Inventory (individually reported use cases), Office of Management and Budget (OMB). Version 2025-inventory@62d5baa65fa3, processed 2026-10-11, rules 2026.10.1. Static snapshot.Applied filters: topic = Science; AI type = nlp · 43 records

Key findings

43 use-case records from 5 agencies: 7 deployed (16%), 6 pilots, 29 in development or acquisition, 1 retired, 0 with no stage reported.
0 records are designated high-impact; 0 of them (n/a) answered at least one minimum-practice question.
NASA, HHS, USDA report 36 of 43 use cases (84%).
0% of reported deployed use cases (0 of 7) are classified as generative or agentic AI.
Sourcing is reported for 33% of use cases. Where reported, 93% involve in-house development.

Lifecycle

Stage	Records	Share
Deployed	7	16%
Pilot	6	14%
Pre-deployment	29	67%
Retired	1	2%

AI technology

Classification	Records	Share	Deployed
Natural language processing	43	100%	7

Agencies

Agency	Records	Deployed	Completeness
NASA · National Aeronautics and Space Administration	23	2	63%
HHS · Department of Health and Human Services	9	3	86%
USDA · Department of Agriculture	4	1	90%
DOI · Department of the Interior	4	0	87%
DOE · Department of Energy	3	1	72%

High-impact designation

Designation	Records
Not high-impact	43

Governance evidence: use cases designated high-impact

Practice	In place	In progress	Not in place	N/A or precluded	Other	No answer	In scope
Pre-deployment testing	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
AI impact assessment	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Independent review	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Ongoing monitoring	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Operator training	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Fail-safe	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Appeal process	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
User and public consultation	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

"In place" means the agency reported the practice as established. "No answer" means the field was blank; it says nothing about whether the practice exists.

Method

All figures are computed directly from the normalised inventory records. Category labels are normalised from the source answer options; original values are kept on each record. Governance answers are classified as in place, in progress, not in place, not applicable, precluded, waived, other or no answer, and blanks are never read as "no". See the Methodology page for full rules.

Limitations

Figures are what agencies reported in the 2025 inventory. They are not verified, and registration of use cases is not complete for every agency.
A blank answer is missing evidence, not evidence that a practice or safeguard is absent.
Counts are use-case records. A larger portfolio does not indicate better performance or greater AI maturity, and agencies differ in how they split systems into use cases.
The inventory has no budget, cost, accuracy or outcome data. None is shown or inferred here.
This is a disclosure analysis. It is not an audit, a compliance determination or an official government assessment.

Source records

First 40 of 43 records, deployed first. The full list is available as CSV from the explorer with the same filters.

Record	Agency ID	Agency	Use case	Stage
R0204	NASA-334	NASA	NASA OCIO STI Concept Tagging Service	Deployed
R0216	NASA-365	NASA	GCMD Keyword Recommender (GKR)	Deployed
R0836		HHS	CDER Publications	Deployed
R0927		HHS	NCI-DOE Collaboration, MOSSAIC project (Modeling Outcomes using Surveillance Data and Scalable AI for Cancer)	Deployed
R0984		HHS	Ask Aithena	Deployed
R1316	USDA-003	USDA	NAL Automated Indexing	Deployed
R3297	DOE-355	DOE	Scalable, Efficient and Accelerated Causal Reasoning Operators, Graphs and Spikes for Earth and Embedded Systems (SEA-CROGS)	Deployed
R0123	NASA-42	NASA	MADI - Strategic Foresight and Knowledge Management infrastructure for ARMD/TACP/CAS	Pre-deployment
R0138	NASA-143	NASA	Knowledge Capture: helionauts.org	Pre-deployment
R0151	NASA-187	NASA	Science Translation with AI	Pre-deployment
R0180	NASA-259	NASA	Comment Analytics Dashboard	Pre-deployment
R0201	NASA-327	NASA	Lessons Learned Bot (LLB)	Pre-deployment
R0212	NASA-354	NASA	Using Natural Language Processing to Help Automate the Standardization of PI Variable Names from ICARTT Files	Pre-deployment
R0230	NASA-405	NASA	Mapping Digital Infrastructure (MADI)	Pre-deployment
R0238	NASA-418	NASA	Manager for Intelligent Knowledge Access (MIKA)	Pre-deployment
R0251	NASA-454	NASA	Requirement Alignment (REQAL)	Pre-deployment
R0255	NASA-488	NASA	Data Fracking (HRP)	Pilot
R0256	NASA-490	NASA	AIML for Code Review and Workforce Augmentation (converted to collective)	Retired
R0267	NASA-515	NASA	Large language models for food security outlooks	Pre-deployment
R0282	NASA-546	NASA	XR Enabling Technologies for Hardware Integration & Test Process Improvement	Pre-deployment
R0354	NASA-653	NASA	Natural Language Processing and Topic Modeling of the 25-Year General Coordinates Network (GCN) Circulars Archive	Pre-deployment
R0399	NASA-717	NASA	Artificial Intelligence Leveraged Information Capture and Exploration (ALICE) (ITMX)	Pre-deployment
R0472	NASA-870	NASA	Natural Language query processor for Common Metadata Repository	Pre-deployment
R0475	NASA-873	NASA	MADI - Modular AI for Design and Innovation	Pre-deployment
R0500	NASA-904	NASA	HEASARC Bibliography	Pre-deployment
R0514	NASA-921	NASA	AI-Enhanced Mission Operations Reporting & Decision Support System	Pre-deployment
R0515	NASA-922	NASA	Athena (EM32 Document Intelligence)	Pre-deployment
R0525	NASA-933	NASA	MIRA (MAPTIS NLP Interface)	Pre-deployment
R0649		HHS	Portfolio Analytics	Pilot
R0728		HHS	Mining.AI	Pre-deployment
R0981		HHS	Detection of AI-Generated Reviewer Critiques	Pilot
R1007		HHS	Identifying pain vs non-pain research	Pre-deployment
R1016		HHS	Incorporating External Information into Taxonomy	Pre-deployment
R1017		HHS	Using Llama to summarize PubMed Central (PMC) full text articles that contain information on protein function	Pilot
R1389	USDA-090	USDA	IOL Focus Group and Survey Sensemaking	Pre-deployment
R1397	USDA-099	USDA	Plum Island handwriting and text extraction from scanned pdfs	Pre-deployment
R1442	USDA-144	USDA	Recreation site chatbot	Pilot
R2642	DOI-0109	DOI	LLM-Assisted Volcanic Alert Monitoring	Pilot
R2650	DOI-0106	DOI	Accelerating scientific discovery through AI-driven literature synthesis and meta-analysis using large language models [2024 INV#WO0000000201793]]	Pre-deployment
R2676	DOI-0077	DOI	ATLAS	Pre-deployment

Prepared with Federal AI Intelligence by Irakli Petriashvili. Source: https://github.com/ombegov/2025-Federal-Agency-AI-Use-Case-Inventory