AI Compliance for the Public Sector

Deliver AI-Enabled Public Services That Stand Up to Scrutiny

Benefits decisions, fraud detection and GenAI assistants carry rights-impacting risk and public accountability. Asenion turns federal directives, impact assessment requirements and security baselines into operational controls your CAIO, CISO and program teams can verify, monitor and evidence.

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What oversight bodies will ask about

5 headline regulations and standards for AI in government

Few of these were written only for AI. All of them apply to it.

US federal · AI policy

OMB M-25-21 (with M-25-22)

OMB policy on federal agency use of AI, paired with M-25-22 on AI acquisition.

For AI: Inventory AI use cases, determine which are high-impact, and apply pre-deployment testing, impact assessments, human oversight and ongoing monitoring.

US · Framework

NIST AI RMF 1.0 and GenAI Profile (AI 600-1)

NIST's Govern, Map, Measure, Manage framework, referenced across federal and state AI policy.

For AI: A common control language for risk assessments, procurement requirements and authorization packages.

US federal · Cloud security

FedRAMP and NIST SP 800-53

The security authorization baseline for cloud services used by federal agencies.

For AI: AI SaaS and LLM platforms that process federal data need an authorization, and AI-specific risks belong in the system security plan and continuous monitoring.

Canada · Federal

Directive on Automated Decision-Making

Treasury Board directive requiring an Algorithmic Impact Assessment (AIA) for automated systems used in administrative decisions.

For AI: The impact level drives requirements for peer review, notice, explanation, human intervention and testing for unintended bias.

EU · AI regulation

EU AI Act

AI used by public authorities for access to benefits and essential services, law enforcement, migration and border control is high-risk. Under the AI Omnibus, those obligations apply from December 2027.

For AI: Public-body deployers must complete a fundamental rights impact assessment and register high-risk use in the EU database.

Use cases

Where AI meets these rules in government

The AI use cases we see most often, and the requirements that follow them.

Benefits eligibility and case prioritization

Models that score applications or prioritize cases affect rights and access to services. They need impact assessments, explanations and human review.

Canada DADM / AIAOMB high-impact AIEU AI Act high-risk

GenAI for constituent services and staff

Chatbots and drafting assistants must disclose AI use, avoid inaccurate guidance on benefits or rules, and keep sensitive data out of public models.

OMB M-25-21NIST AI 600-1EU AI Act Art. 50

Fraud, waste and abuse detection

Flagging models must be validated, monitored for disparate impact, and designed so a flag triggers human review rather than automatic penalty.

OMB high-impact AINIST AI RMFCanada DADM

Buying AI and running AI agents

Contracts need terms for testing, data rights and incident reporting. Agents need least-privilege access, runtime guardrails and audit logs.

OMB M-25-22FedRAMPNIST SP 800-53
How Asenion helps

From directive to operational control

One set of controls, applied from procurement through runtime, with evidence your inspector general, auditors and the public can rely on.

01 · CONTROLGEN

Policy Packs for government

Start from Policy Packs for OMB M-25-21, NIST AI RMF, Canada's Directive on Automated Decision-Making and the EU AI Act, combined with your agency's own AI policy.

02 · VERIFY

Verify before release

Test decision and GenAI systems for bias, inaccurate guidance, data leakage and prompt injection, with every result mapped back to a control.

03 · WITNESS

Govern at runtime

Apply context-aware controls to AI agents in production and capture tamper-resistant evidence of what happened, which controls applied and whether they worked.

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Make your AI use cases compliant and defensible

In 30 minutes we'll map your AI use cases to the rules above, show the controls that apply, and point out gaps in your AI governance program.

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