Live Update: December 2025

The Federal Move to
Artificial Intelligence

From executive orders to the new "Tech Force" surge. Explore how the U.S. Government is operationalizing AI across defense, healthcare, and finance.

1,700+ AI Use Cases
$4B+ Fraud Recovered
1,000 Tech Force Recruits
9x GenAI Growth
New Initiative December 2025

The "Tech Force" Surge

The Administration has launched a massive recruitment drive targeting Silicon Valley's top talent. The goal: embed 1,000 elite data scientists and engineers into federal agencies for 2-year tours of duty to modernize legacy systems and accelerate AI adoption.

  • check_circle Directed by OPM Director Scott Kupor.
  • check_circle Focus on Defense, DHS, and HHS modernization.
  • check_circle Rapid clearance pathways for private sector experts.
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The Road to Adoption

Key milestones in the Federal Government's AI strategy.

2020

AI in Government Act

Congress codifies the AI Center of Excellence within GSA and mandates agencies to document their AI use cases.

2023

Executive Order 14110

President Biden's landmark EO on "Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI." Established the Chief AI Officer (CAIO) role for every major agency and set strict safety standards.

2024

OMB Memo M-24-10

The "Implementation Handbook." Defined "Rights-Impacting" and "Safety-Impacting" AI, requiring rigorous testing and transparency (use case inventories).

2025

Tech Force & AIAP Phase 2

The new administration launches the "Tech Force" to plug the talent gap and issues a revised AI Action Plan to accelerate deployment in national security and energy sectors.

Agency Intelligence

Explore how specific agencies are utilizing AI right now.

Treasury
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Dept. of Treasury

Leveraging ML to identify check fraud and illicit transactions in real-time.

Project: AI-Powered Check Fraud Detection.

Method: Computer vision analyzes physical characteristics of checks while ML models map transaction patterns to flag anomalies.

VA
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Veterans Affairs

Predicting patient deterioration and detecting benefits fraud via automated logic.

Clinical: AI models analyzing vitals to predict cardiac arrest or sepsis hours in advance.

Benefits: Detecting fraudulent direct deposit changes to protect veteran pensions.

HHS
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HHS / CMS

Analyzing massive publication datasets to track disease outbreaks like Polio.

Polio Containment: Using NLP to scan global scientific literature for mentions of outbreaks in unexpected regions.

CMS Fraud: Denied 800k+ fraudulent claims in 8 months, saving $141M.

USPTO
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USPTO

Accelerating innovation by using AI to search millions of prior art documents.

Examiners use AI-enhanced search tools to find relevant "prior art" (existing inventions) faster. This reduces the backlog of patent applications and improves the quality of granted patents.

IRS
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IRS

Deploying the "Risk-Based Collection Model" to close the tax gap.

The IRS uses AI to identify complex tax evasion schemes involving high-wealth individuals and partnerships that are too convoluted for manual audit selection alone.

NOAA
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NOAA

Improving extreme weather forecasts and detecting wildfires via satellite imagery.

AI models ingest massive amounts of satellite data to predict hurricane paths with higher accuracy and automatically spot heat signatures of early-stage wildfires.

The Hurdles Ahead

security

Cybersecurity & Adversarial AI

GAO reports indicate agencies are struggling to address risks like "data poisoning" and model theft. The new EO mandates stricter red-teaming for safety-critical systems.

engineering

The Talent Gap

Government salaries often cannot compete with Big Tech. The "Tech Force" initiative attempts to solve this via short-term, high-prestige tours of duty.

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Rights vs. Safety

OMB M-24-10 distinguishes between AI that impacts safety (dams, grid) and AI that impacts rights (hiring, benefits). Agencies must navigate complex compliance for the latter.

Generative AI Explosion

Reported Generative AI use cases in government inventories

32 2023
282+ 2024

Source: GAO-25-107653 Report

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