"VA's 2025 inventory listed 367 examples of the department looking to onboard AI tools, which was a significant increase over the 227 it reported in 2024. Seventy-two of the latest use cases, however, were marked as retired, which the department said indicated they had been included in its 2024 inventory but that their "development and/or use has since been discontinued.""
"The department's active uses of AI remained relatively static from 2024 to 2025. The 2025 list noted 138 active uses of AI, and while VA's 2024 inventory used different phrasing - "operation and maintenance" - to signify active uses, that 2024 list noted that 130 had been deployed."
"A December 2020 executive order signed under the first Trump administration directed non-intelligence agencies to publicly release inventories of their AI uses. Although the current Trump administration rescinded Biden-era guidance that had expanded out some of these reporting requirements, agencies were still required to publicly release their inventories in December."
The Department of Veterans Affairs increased its reported AI use cases from 227 in 2024 to 367 in 2025, while retiring 72 items that were previously listed. Active AI deployments stayed roughly steady, with 138 active uses in 2025 compared with 130 deployed in the 2024 inventory phrased as "operation and maintenance." The department is pursuing AI to support internal operations, veteran health services, crisis support for retired servicemembers, and integration with its new electronic health record system. Public release of the inventory complied with executive order and reporting timelines.
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