Public services can't go dark because a vendor did
Agencies are deploying AI for citizen services, case processing, and internal productivity. Government carries unique constraints — sovereignty, procurement rules, FedRAMP boundaries — and a unique obligation: continuity of operations is a mandate, not a preference.
Where AI is embedded
How government runs on AI today
- Citizen service assistants and 311-style intake
- Case processing and benefits adjudication support
- Document processing and FOIA response
- Internal knowledge search across policy corpora
- Workforce productivity tooling
Sector-specific risk
What makes resilience harder here
COOP mandates already apply
Continuity of Operations planning is required — and AI services supporting essential functions belong in the COOP inventory with defined recovery objectives, like any other essential system.
Authorization boundaries limit failover
You can't fail over to an unauthorized provider. FedRAMP, StateRAMP, and data sovereignty rules make failover path design a compliance exercise as much as a technical one.
Procurement cycles outlive model lifecycles
A model can be deprecated within a single procurement cycle. Contracting for AI without deprecation and continuity clauses builds fragility into the award itself.
The regulatory picture
FISMA, FedRAMP/StateRAMP, COOP directives, and OMB AI governance memoranda all converge on the same requirement: inventoried, governed, recoverable AI supporting essential functions.
Assess your government AI estate
The AIR Assessment maps your AI dependencies against sector-specific failure modes and regulatory expectations — in 3 to 6 weeks.