OMB M-25-22: Scope, NSS Routing, and Stakeholders
Explore the scope and routing rules of OMB M-25-22 for AI procurement in federal agencies. Understand how to identify whether acquisitions fall under this policy or require National Security System routing. Learn to involve the right cross-functional stakeholders early to ensure legal, security, privacy, and operational requirements are met before engaging vendors. This lesson helps you document decisions clearly to avoid assumptions and ensure auditability in AI acquisitions.
The last lesson ended with a hard rule: if it can’t be required or evidenced, treat it as missing. The common mistake right after that rule lands is to treat policy scope as someone else’s problem. A market research summary gets drafted and the only named reviewer is contracting, because the team assumes contracting can cover AI governance later with standard terms.
That mistake shows up as missing decisions, not missing words. The draft summary names a product and a price, but it never states whether the buy is for a National Security System context. It also never names the people who will ...