{"slug":"us-executive-order-14179","title":"Executive Order 14179: Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence","short_title":"EO 14179","jurisdiction":"us","instrument_type":"executive_order","status":"in_force","is_binding":true,"issuing_body":"President of the United States","summary_plain":"Executive Order 14179, signed 23 January 2025, sets US federal policy to sustain and enhance American AI dominance, directs the development of an AI Action Plan within 180 days, and orders agencies to review and revise or rescind actions taken under the revoked Executive Order 14110 that are inconsistent with the new policy. It also called for revision of the OMB memoranda governing federal agency use and procurement of AI, which OMB replaced in April 2025 with M-25-21 and M-25-22.\n","adopted_on":"2025-01-23","in_force_on":"2025-01-23","applies_from":null,"official_source_url":"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/removing-barriers-to-american-leadership-in-artificial-intelligence/","last_verified_at":null,"review_status":"pending_review","confidence_level":"high","updated_at":"2026-09-11T14:53:10+00:00","url":"https://aipolicytracker.org/policies/us-executive-order-14179","status_note":"Revoked Executive Order 14110 (Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy AI, October 2023) had already been rescinded by Executive Order 14148 on 20 January 2025. EO 14179 directs development of an AI Action Plan, published in July 2025. Executive orders bind federal agencies, not private organisations directly.\n","scope_summary":"Binds executive departments and agencies of the US federal government. It does not itself impose obligations on private companies, but it shapes federal procurement, agency guidance and enforcement priorities.\n","who_it_applies_to":"Federal executive departments and agencies; indirectly federal contractors and AI vendors.","key_dates_summary":"Signed 23 January 2025; AI Action Plan delivered 23 July 2025; OMB memoranda issued 3 April 2025.","penalties_summary":"None; executive-branch policy.","what_organizations_must_do":"Private organisations have no direct duties. Federal vendors should track the AI Action Plan and OMB memoranda for procurement expectations.\n","published_on":"2025-01-31","date_notes":null,"taxonomy":{"actor":["provider","public_authority"],"ai_system_type":["general_purpose_ai_model","generative_ai"],"sector":["public_services"],"risk_category":["unclassified"],"use_case":["generative_ai","government_procurement"]},"sections":[],"obligations":[{"slug":"us-eo-14179-agency-review-of-prior-actions","title":"Federal agencies must review and revise actions inconsistent with the new AI policy","category":"public_sector_use","summary":"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.\n","practical_action":"Vendors should check which prior agency AI requirements remain in force before bidding.","is_binding":true,"applies_from":null,"section":null,"source_reference":"Section 5","official_source_url":"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/removing-barriers-to-american-leadership-in-artificial-intelligence/","review_status":"pending_review","confidence_level":"high","last_verified_at":null,"actors":["public_authority"],"sectors":["public_services"],"use_cases":["government_procurement"],"applicability":[{"description":"Federal executive agencies.","actors":["public_authority"],"conditions":null}],"evidence_examples":[],"framework_mappings":[],"url":"https://aipolicytracker.org/obligations/us-eo-14179-agency-review-of-prior-actions"}],"applicability_rules":[],"deadlines":[{"title":"AI Action Plan due (180 days)","due_on":"2025-07-22","date_precision":"exact","date_label":null,"display_date":"22 July 2025","description":"Deadline for the Action Plan required by Section 4; the plan was published 23 July 2025.","source_reference":"Section 4","official_source_url":null,"status":"passed","confidence_level":"medium"}],"versions":[],"enforcement_events":[],"procurement_rules":[],"sources":[{"title":"Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence (Executive Order 14179)","publisher":"The White House","url":"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/removing-barriers-to-american-leadership-in-artificial-intelligence/","document_date":"2025-01-23","document_type":"legislation","tier":1,"tier_label":"Official primary source (government, legislature, regulator, court, standards body, intergovernmental)"},{"title":"America's AI Action Plan","publisher":"The White House","url":"https://www.ai.gov/action-plan","document_date":"2025-07-23","document_type":"strategy","tier":1,"tier_label":"Official primary source (government, legislature, regulator, court, standards body, intergovernmental)"}],"related_policies":["us-omb-m-25-21","us-nist-ai-rmf"],"related_frameworks":[],"faq":[],"source":{"official_source_url":"https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/removing-barriers-to-american-leadership-in-artificial-intelligence/","source_title":"Executive Order 14179 — Removing Barriers to American Leadership in Artificial Intelligence","source_publisher":"The White House","source_document_date":"2025-01-23","source_reference":"90 FR 8741 (31 January 2025)","source_tier":1,"last_checked_at":null,"last_verified_at":null,"review_status":"pending_review","confidence_level":"high","content_version":1,"change_summary":"Initial structured record.","reviewed_by":null}}