OneGov deals helping expand agencies’ AI adoption, GSA official says

Zach Whitman, GSA's chief AI officer and data scientist, said the OneGov initiative “has provided a procurement pathway for a lot of these agencies who may have had early, light contact with some of these technologies.”

The General Services Administration’s OneGov initiative provides the federal government with a new way to onboard artificial intelligence tools, a top agency official said during GovCIO’s AI summit on Friday.

GSA launched its OneGov strategy in April 2025 to offer agencies discounted rates on select private sector technology and software services by treating the government as one customer. More than a dozen companies — including Microsoft, SAP and xAI — have reached deals with GSA so far to offer significant discounts on select products. 

In response to a question from Nextgov/FCW about how the initiative is helping to bring more AI tools into government, GSA Chief AI Officer and Data Scientist Zach ...