# Federal agencies must review and revise actions inconsistent with the new AI policy

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: Executive Order 14179: Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence
- **Jurisdiction**: United States
- **Category**: public_sector_use
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Provision**: Section 5

## In brief

Federal agencies must review and revise actions inconsistent with the new AI policy is a legal requirement under EO 14179 in the United States (Section 5). In practice: Vendors should check which prior agency AI requirements remain in force before bidding.

## What the duty requires

Agency heads were directed to identify actions taken under Executive Order 14110 that are inconsistent with the policy of EO 14179 and to suspend, revise or rescind them, and OMB was directed to revise its federal AI use and procurement memoranda.

## What an organisation does about it

Vendors should check which prior agency AI requirements remain in force before bidding.

## Controls that meet this duty

- AI governance policy and accountability structure (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-governance-policy-and-accountability
- Public-sector AI use-case register and algorithmic transparency (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/public-sector-ai-use-case-register

## Parent instrument

- Executive Order 14179: Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-executive-order-14179
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-executive-order-14179.md

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-OBL-0111 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0111; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/us-eo-14179-agency-review-of-prior-actions
- **Official source**: https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/removing-barriers-to-american-leadership-in-artificial-intelligence/
- **Provision**: Section 5
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: high
- **Facts last confirmed**: 2026-09-26
- **Confirmed by**: Bhaskar Bhatt (see https://aipolicytracker.org/reviewers)
- **Retrieved**: 2026-10-27
- **Licence**: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- **Cite as**: AIPolicyTracker (2026). "Federal agencies must review and revise actions inconsistent with the new AI policy (EO 14179)" [AIPT-OBL-0111, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0111 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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