USDA · USDA-138 · record R1436
Policy Analysis
Department of Agriculture · Natural Resources and Environment
Overview
- Development stage
- DeployedSource: c) Deployed – The use case is being actively authorized or utilized to support the functions or mission of an agency.
- High-impact designation
- Not high-impactSource: c) Not high-impact
- Impact justification
- Not reported
- Start date
- 2025-08-01 (day precision)Source: 8/1/2025
- Withheld from public reporting
- Not reported
Mission
- Topic area
- Other
- Operational functions
- No function tag matched Derived by keyword rules; see methodology
Problem the AI is intended to solve
Review roughly 1500 handbooks and policies to identify any duplications and perform information extraction for analysis.
Expected benefits
Decrease time requirement and increase effectiveness of policy and handbook reviews
System outputs
Returns extracts and various text segments from statutes, regulations, executive orders, secretary memos, and department directives.
Technology
- AI classification
- Classical / predictive MLSource: Classical/Predictive Machine Learning: Models trained on data to make predictions or classifications based on identified patterns or relatio…
- System name(s)
- Advanced platform for Technical Learning and Analytics in the Sciences (ATLAS)
- Custom-developed code
- Yes
- Public source code
- Not reported
Sourcing
- How it was built
- Developed in-houseSource: b) Developed in-house
- Vendor (as reported)
- Not reported
- Vendors (standardized)
- None on the standard list
A vendor is the supplier named by the agency. It does not identify the underlying model or AI technology.
Data and privacy
- Involves PII
- No
- Privacy Impact Assessment
- Not reported
- Authorization to Operate
- Yes
- Demographic features
- k) None of the above
- Training and evaluation data
- Forest Service Policy and Handbooks.
- Federal Data Catalog
- Not reported
Governance
0 of 8 minimum-practice questions answered. A blank answer means the agency reported nothing; it does not mean the practice is absent.
Pre-deployment testingNo answer reported
AI impact assessmentNo answer reported
Independent reviewNo answer reported
Ongoing monitoringNo answer reported
Operator trainingNo answer reported
Fail-safeNo answer reported
Appeal processNo answer reported
User and public consultationNo answer reported
Potential impacts and how they were identified
Not reported