Decision Stewardship: Why Federal AI Compliance Demands Mission-Specific Decision Support, Not Generic Copilots

Decision Stewardship Series | Federal AI Compliance

Federal agencies face a critical inflection point. OMB Memoranda M-25-21 and M-25-22 impose concrete governance, risk management, and procurement requirements on every agency deploying artificial intelligence. This white paper introduces decision stewardship — the discipline of designing, deploying, and governing AI systems that produce auditable, bounded, explainable decision support, rather than open-ended generative outputs.