VA’s latest AI inventory includes new suicide, EHR-focused use cases

Seventy-two of the AI use cases previously included in the department’s 2024 inventory were listed as retired, meaning that their “development and/or use has since been discontinued.”

The Department of Veterans Affairs is continuing to expand its adoption and exploration of artificial intelligence tools to bolster its operations, including looking at the use of the emerging capabilities to better support retired servicemembers in crisis and enhance its new electronic health record system.

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 Although the current Trump administration rescinded Biden-era guidance that had expanded out some of these reporting requirements, agencies were still required to publicly release their inventories in December. 

VA’s 2025 AI use case inventory was publicly released at the end of January — consistent with most other federal agencies’ releases as a result of ...