Merge pull request #833 from GSA/staging

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             "position": "Chief Information Officer",
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-            "description": "Thomas N. Flagg brings over two decades of business and information technology knowledge composed of both private sector and government experiences. He currently serves as the Director of Business Application Services (BAS) within the Office of the Chief Information Officer at the United States Department of Labor. In this role, he leads a team of three executives, and approximately 120 federal and 600+ contract staff in building and delivering business applications to the 26 DOL subcomponent mission agencies and the public. Prior to this, he served as the Directorate of Information Technology Operations and Services (ITOS) “the right tools at the right time” inclusive of infrastructure, unified communications, and applications platforms in the cloud and DOL data centers to support the varied and diverse sub-agency missions DOL supports.<br><br>He actively leads his management team in setting strategy, vision and direction to derive DOL's operational plan and collaborates with the serviced agencies to manage and execute plan implementation using departmental capabilities. Most recently, he was instrumental in the recent Enterprise Shared Service Information Technology consolidation activities within DOL helping to integrate over 22 subcomponent agencies under the authority of the CIO. This has proven to help improve DOL's Enterprise Architecture, Governance and Procurement Strategies and has saved DOL significant IT expense resulting from more efficient use of IT resources.<br><br>He was also honored to receive the Service to the Citizen Award for his leadership of IT Operations for the Department of labor during the Covid-19 pandemic ensuring minimal downtime of DOL staff to immediately transition to 100% telework.<br><br>Prior to joining the Senior Executive Service, he has served as the Director of IT for the Wage and Hour Division, a Supervisory IT Specialist and a technical and management advisor to the Director of IT within the Office of Workers Compensation Programs (OWCP). Prior to working within OWCP, he was within the Employment Training Administrator (ETA) serving as the branch chief and working to expand the program management office (PMO) for the Agency.<br><br>Prior to converting to federal service in June 2013, Thomas worked as a small business consultant within ETA and has firsthand experience delivering systems as a web application programmer and project manager for the Office of Foreign Labor Certification, National Emergency Grants (now known as National Dislocation Worker Grants) and a multitude of other ETA systems. His additional work experiences in the private sector were as the Internet Services Manager at Recorded Books (the largest manufacturer of recorded audio), Lead Software Developer and Technology Manager of the InTouch patient medical records pharmacy system at Health Objects (a health services IT subsidiary of OmniCare—the largest institutional pharmacy at that time), the Manager and Technical Lead of the Insurance vertical at ZonaFinanciera.com (a Latin American financial services firm based in Fairfax, VA during the dot com era), GTE (prior to and during the Verizon Merger) and Intel Corporation as technical management contributor and trainee.<br><br>In his personal life, he was born and raised in the Washington DC area. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Howard University (1998), and later received the Master in Business Administration and the Master in Business Management with a focus on Information Systems Management from the University of Maryland's Smith School of Business (2009). Thomas also holds numerous technical certifications."
+            "description": "Mr. Thomas N. Flagg joined the U. S. Department of Education as the Chief Information Officer (CIO) in October 2024. In this position he oversees an Information Technology (IT) portfolio of $1B. As the CIO, Thomas serves as a principal advisor to the Under Secretary, Deputy Secretary, and Secretary with respect to the astute use of IT to exceed the expectations of the Department’s customers. He serves as the day-to-day lead for coordinating and managing the various functions within the Office of the Chief Information Officer (OCIO), coordinates with and provides advice to the Department’s senior leadership regarding IT, information management, information assurance, and website activities management and operations.<br><br>He brings over two decades of business and information technology knowledge composed of both private sector and government experiences. Prior to joining the Department of Education, he served as the Director of Business Application Services (BAS) within the Office of the Chief Information Officer at the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). In this role, he led a team of three executives, and approximately 120 federal and 600+ contract staff in building and delivering business applications to the 26 DOL subcomponent mission agencies and the public. He also served as the Directorate of Information Technology Operations and Services (ITOS) “the right tools at the right time” inclusive of infrastructure, unified communications, and applications platforms in the cloud and DOL data centers to support the varied and diverse sub-agency missions DOL supports.<br><br>Prior to joining federal service in June 2013, Thomas worked as a small business consultant within ETA and has firsthand experience delivering systems as a web application programmer and project manager for the Office of Foreign Labor Certification, National Emergency Grants (now known as National Dislocation Worker Grants) and a multitude of other ETA systems. His additional work experiences in the private sector were as the Internet Services Manager at Recorded Books (the largest manufacturer of recorded audio), Lead Software Developer and Technology Manager of the InTouch patient medical records pharmacy system at Health Objects (a health services IT subsidiary of OmniCare—the largest institutional pharmacy at that time), the Manager and Technical Lead of the Insurance vertical at ZonaFinanciera.com (a Latin American financial services firm based in Fairfax, VA during the dot com era), GTE (prior to and during the Verizon Merger) and Intel Corporation as technical management contributor and trainee.<br><br>In his personal life, he was born and raised in the Washington DC area. He received his Bachelor of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering from Howard University (1998), and later received the Master in Business Administration and the Master in Business Management with a focus on Information Systems Management from the University of Maryland’s Smith School of Business (2009). Thomas also holds numerous technical certifications."
           }
         }
       }

_policies/eo-ai-use-case-inventories-reference.md

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 ## Policy Overview ##
 
-Pursuant to Section 5 of  Executive Order (EO) 13960, “Promoting the Use of Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in the Federal Government”, and codified by the Advancing American AI Act, federal agencies are required to inventory their Artificial Intelligence (AI) use cases and share their inventories with other government agencies and the public.
+Consistent with Section 5 of Executive Order (EO) 13960, “Promoting the Use of Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in the Federal Government,” and pursuant to the Advancing American AI Act and OMB Memorandum M-24-10, *Advancing Governance, Innovation, and Risk Management for Agency Use of Artificial Intelligence*, Federal agencies are required to inventory their artificial intelligence (AI) use cases and share their inventories with other government agencies and the public.
 
-EO 13960 and the Advancing American AI Act calls on the CIO Council to:
+The Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) is charged with issuing instructions to agencies for the collection, reporting, and publication of information about agency AI use cases. The instructions for 2024 are available <a href="{{ site.baseurl }}/assets/resources/2024-Guidance-for-AI-Use-Case-Inventories.pdf">here</a>.
 
-1. Identify, provide guidance on, and make publicly available the criteria, format, and mechanisms for agency inventories of non-classified and non-sensitive use case of AI by agencies, and
+## 2024 AI Use Case Inventory ##
 
-2. Share the consolidated inventories with other agencies. 
+The consolidated 2024 Federal AI Use Case Inventory, current as of December 16, 2024, is available for download [here](https://github.com/ombegov/2024-Federal-AI-Use-Case-Inventory). 
 
-Agencies are required, as directed by the EO and Advancing American AI Act, to make their AI use case inventories [public](https://www.ai.gov/ai-use-case-inventories/). Agencies are to publish/post their AI use case inventories on their agency data webpage at https://[agency].gov/data/AI_Inventory.
+This year’s inventory significantly expands on prior years’ reporting, demonstrating transparency in how the United States is investing in AI for the public good. Agencies are required to identify whether their use of AI impacts the public’s rights or safety per [OMB Memorandum M-24-10](https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/M-24-10-Advancing-Governance-Innovation-and-Risk-Management-for-Agency-Use-of-Artificial-Intelligence.pdf) and how they are implementing safeguards to mitigate the relevant risks. Per M-24-10, after December 1, 2024, if the required safeguards are not adopted for a given AI system, agencies must stop using it. The inventory offers visibility into whether agencies are still working on actions to manage risks from the use of AI by identifying where agencies have received an extension of the December 1 deadline or have granted a waiver of particular requirements.
+
+As of December 16, 2024, agencies have reported over 1700 AI use cases. 
+* The top 3 categories for AI use cases are: mission-enabling (internal agency support), health and medical, and government services (includes benefits and service delivery).
+* 227 of these use cases were identified as rights-impacting and/or safety-impacting, per M-24-10 definitions.  
+
+Two hundred and six (206) rights-impacting and/or safety-impacting AI use cases received an extension for up to one year in order to achieve compliance with M-24-10’s risk management practices. The most commonly cited risk management practices that agencies requested extensions for include the requirement to conduct independent evaluations, mitigate emerging risks to rights and safety, and complete an AI impact assessment for their rights- and safety-impacting use cases. Extensions were granted based upon OMB review of:  
+* agency justifications for why they were unable to comply with the December 1st deadline;   
+* actions the agency is taking to ensure compliance, including how they will be mitigating risks of noncompliance over the course of the extension period; and 
+* potential service interruptions to critical government processes should the extension be denied and the AI required to go offline. 
 
 ## Related Policies, Priorities and Resources ##
 
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