# Publish an annual AI use-case inventory

- **Record type**: Obligation
- **Instrument**: OMB Memorandum M-25-21: Accelerating Federal Use of AI through Innovation, Governance, and Public Trust
- **Jurisdiction**: United States
- **Category**: transparency
- **Binding**: Yes
- **Provision**: Section 3

## In brief

Publish an annual AI use-case inventory is a legal requirement under the OMB M-25-21 in the United States (Section 3). Agencies must inventory their AI use cases annually and publish the inventory, identifying high-impact uses, with limited exclusions. The record carries 1 evidence example and mappings to 1 framework.

## What the duty requires

Agencies must inventory their AI use cases annually and publish the inventory, identifying high-impact uses, with limited exclusions.

## What an organisation does about it

Agencies maintain the inventory; vendors may be asked for use-case descriptions.

## Controls that meet this duty

- Public-sector AI use-case register and algorithmic transparency (satisfies): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/public-sector-ai-use-case-register
- AI system inventory and classification (supports): https://aipolicytracker.org/controls/ai-system-inventory

## Parent instrument

- OMB Memorandum M-25-21: Accelerating Federal Use of AI through Innovation, Governance, and Public Trust
  - Record: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-omb-m-25-21
  - Context file: https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-omb-m-25-21.md

## Provenance

- **Permanent id**: AIPT-OBL-0117 (https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0117; never changes or gets reused)
- **Record page**: https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/us-omb-m-25-21-use-case-inventory
- **Official source**: https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/information-for-agencies/memoranda/
- **Provision**: Section 3
- **Review status**: verified
- **Confidence**: medium
- **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). "Publish an annual AI use-case inventory (OMB M-25-21)" [AIPT-OBL-0117, verified 26 September 2026 by Bhaskar Bhatt]. https://aipolicytracker.org/id/AIPT-OBL-0117 (accessed 27 October 2026).

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