Governing AI in Motion: Part II, When the Rubber Meets the Mission: Operationalizing AI Oversight The policy was clear. The model was tuned. The team was trained. Still, it broke. Welcome to the messy middle – implementation. It’s where the ideal meets the edge cases. Where oversight gets tangled in org charts. Where “explainable” becomes […]
Part I of the “Five Questions Federal AI Leaders Are Asking” Series The machine doesn’t blink. It doesn’t weigh intent or consequence. It runs the data, executes the code, and returns a decision. Approve. Deny. Act. But someone has to own the outcome. That’s where the conversation around federal AI adoption gets uncomfortable – because […]
Governing AI in Motion The Three Domains That Make or Break AI Oversight The system passed testing. Then it failed in the field. Not loudly. No alarms. Just a slow drift. A shift in how it ranked inputs. A different tone in outputs. No one noticed — until the call from legal. What failed wasn’t […]
Governing AI in Motion: How to Build Resilience in a Rapidly Evolving Threat Landscape Part II: The Four Levels of AI Governance Maturity: From Ad Hoc to Resilient You’re Not Starting from Zero — But You May Be Stuck Every organization working with AI has governance. The real question is: what kind? Is it designed […]
Governing AI in Motion: How to Build Resilience in a Rapidly Evolving Threat Landscape Part I: Why AI Governance Must Move Faster Than the Systems It Oversees The Shift Has Already Happened AI no longer lives in the lab. It is writing policies, ranking resumes, interpreting satellite imagery, and shaping battlefield decisions. It has moved […]
The future of AI oversight won’t be won by rigid frameworks. It will be won by systems that sense. In the last three parts of this series, we’ve mapped the shift from traditional risk management to adaptive governance. We’ve shown how artificial intelligence moves us from the predictable into the emergent. From systems you can […]
When artificial intelligence moves from pilot to production, governance stops being theoretical. It becomes operational. This is the moment when frameworks meet reality. Governance is no longer a planning artifact or compliance checkpoint, it becomes a living discipline embedded in how systems are monitored, corrected, and evolved. Traditional oversight works well in environments that are […]
Why We Love Risk Matrices There’s a reason risk management has been canonized across federal programs. It works—at least in domains that behave predictably. Whether you’re building a satellite or migrating legacy data, the discipline of risk is indispensable. You can scope it. Score it. Mitigate it. But that same structure can become a liability […]
There’s comfort in risk. That might sound backwards, but anyone in government or industry who has ever carried the weight of a program knows it to be true. Risk can be cataloged. Measured. Modeled. You can put it in a spreadsheet, assign it a probability, and build a mitigation plan. You can answer questions with […]
Trustworthy. Governed. Built to Serve. We didn’t start this series to chase trends or ride the next wave of hype. This has always been about something deeper, something more grounded in the real pressures and responsibilities that public sector teams face every day. We are living in an age where every agency is expected to […]