What does a NIST AI RMF GOVERN program look like for a federal agency?
GOVERN is the cross-cutting function — 6 categories and 19 subcategories — that establishes the risk culture: policies, accountable roles (often the Chief AI Officer under M-25-21), inventory of AI uses, and processes that make MAP, MEASURE, and MANAGE…
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GOVERN is the cross-cutting function — 6 categories and 19 subcategories — that establishes the risk culture: policies, accountable roles (often the Chief AI Officer under M-25-21), inventory of AI uses, and processes that make MAP, MEASURE, and MANAGE repeatable. For a federal agency it is the documented program that ties AI risk handling to leadership and oversight. Planisphere lives in MEASURE, not GOVERN; it feeds the measurement evidence a GOVERN program oversees but does not itself constitute the governance structure.
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Govern function · 6 categories · 19 subcategories · cross-cutting risk culture.
Prepare evidence for NIST AI RMF · GOVERN review.
First evidence record within 21 days of access · re-runs in a single business day. Planisphere measures model behaviour and emits a reproducible, sha-pinned record — it does not certify, file, or give legal advice.