How do I scope the OMB M-25-21 audit?

Use the brass 'Prepare evidence for OMB M-25-21 review' button. First evidence record within 21 days of access; re-runs in a single business day.

OMB M-25-21.

Prepare evidence for OMB M-25-21 review

Buyer translation: this reference page maps the mark to a tool, system, control, deployment, or evidence question. Federal AI use · Chief AI Officer · high-impact minimum practices (issued 2025-04-03) · OMB M-25-21 is a binding federal directive — a thing an agency or contractor MUST do, on a clock. Planisphere produces the pre-deployment and ongoing-monitoring artifacts the directive demands, each pinned to the paragraph that compels it.

Reviewed 2026-07-02

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What this is.

Sixty-nine marks · cite-anchors for every regulatory regime Planisphere maps to · postmark idiom · single distinctive brass glyph per control · universal classifier · pSEO surface

Use. Federal AI use · Chief AI Officer · high-impact minimum practices (issued 2025-04-03).

Source. memo · brass agency seal.

Register. 09 · Compliance controls — one of the ten registers of the PLANiSPHERE corpus library.

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See it work.

Evidence record you can check — not code you have to trust.

Planisphere measures your tool deployment against OMB M-25-21 and seals the result into a signed, Merkle-rooted evidence record. The grade recomputes on your own hardware; the model state never crosses the boundary.

Prepare evidence for program review →See how a record is checked

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Promise. compliance

The contract this mark binds — derived, not asserted.

OMB M-25-21 is a binding federal directive — a thing an agency or contractor MUST do, on a clock. Planisphere produces the pre-deployment and ongoing-monitoring artifacts the directive demands, each pinned to the paragraph that compels it.

Answers: What does OMB M-25-21 require, and what evidence can support review?

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What it requires.

The obligation this regime imposes — and the honest ceiling. Federal directive

OMB M-25-21 (issued 2025-04-03) is the operative federal memo governing how agencies use AI. It rescinded M-24-10, installed Chief AI Officers and AI Governance Boards, defined the high-impact AI category, and attached seven minimum risk-management practices to it — including pre-deployment testing, an AI impact assessment, and ongoing monitoring. Agencies must report their minimum practices to OMB by 2026-09-22, and each of those three practices is operationally a measurement-evidence requirement.

What the evidence record proves.

Produces the reproducible pre-deployment test artifact the testing practice calls for
Supplies the ongoing-monitoring drift record via the re-run cadence
Serves as behavioural-evidence input to the agency's AI impact assessment
Anchors the high-impact use case to a sha-pinned, reproducible measurement record

What this does not prove. M-25-21's human-oversight, remedies/appeals, and feedback practices are organizational and procedural; Planisphere measures model behaviour, not an agency's governance process. The record is evidence the agency cites — it does not author the impact assessment or stand in for the Chief AI Officer's sign-off.

Cite-anchor: OMB Memorandum M-25-21 (Accelerating Federal Use of AI) · Minimum risk-management practices for high-impact AI

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Questions this answers.

1 high-intent question buyers search — each on its own page, each pinned to OMB M-25-21.

How do I prove pre-deployment testing for a federal AI system? Read the answer →

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The artifact this directive asks for.

Related marks, and the surface this one funnels to.

OMB M-25-21 asks for an evidence record: OMB M-25-21 (issued 2025-04-03) is the operative federal memo governing how agencies use AI. The defense AI workflow produces that record — see how it runs at /defense.