America's AI Action Plan
Issued by
The White House
- September 30, 2026 · Correction — Corrected the release date (23 July 2025) and rewrote the entry to cover the whole plan; it previously described only its cybersecurity items. (Cody Maxwell)
- September 30, 2026 · Correction — Labeled as executive action, the new type for government orders and policy plans. (Cody Maxwell)
- October 1, 2026 · Correction — Rewrote the practical steps, newsletter hook, search description, and audience fields to match the entry's corrected content. (Cody Maxwell)
America's AI Action Plan is the White House's AI policy agenda, released on 23 July 2025. It sets out more than 90 federal actions under three pillars: accelerating AI innovation, building American AI infrastructure, and leading in international AI diplomacy and security. It favors removing regulatory barriers over adding new rules.
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Overview
The White House released America's AI Action Plan on 23 July 2025, following Executive Order 14179. It lists more than 90 federal policy actions under three pillars: accelerating AI innovation, building American AI infrastructure, and leading in international AI diplomacy and security. The plan's direction is deregulatory, starting with removing rules that slow AI adoption. It directs NIST to revise the AI Risk Management Framework and asks the FTC to review earlier AI investigations. It also suggests federal funding decisions consider how restrictive a state's AI rules are. It encourages open-source and open-weight models. On infrastructure and security, it calls for faster permitting of data centers and energy projects. It also calls for an AI information sharing and analysis center and AI-specific incident response planning in federal agencies. It also tasks NIST's Center for AI Standards and Innovation with evaluating frontier models for national security risks. The plan itself creates no private-sector obligations. It works through agency action and three executive orders signed the same day, on federal procurement of AI models, data center permitting, and AI exports.
Key Requirements
- •Agencies are directed to identify and remove regulations that hinder AI development and adoption.
- •NIST is directed to revise the AI Risk Management Framework.
- •Federal procurement is to favor large language models the administration considers objective and free of ideological bias.
- •Data center, energy, and semiconductor permitting is to be accelerated.
- •Agencies are to add AI-specific threats to incident response plans, supported by an AI information sharing and analysis center.
- •The plan creates no direct obligations for private companies.
What Your Organization Must Do
- →Track how agencies implement the plan, since it creates no direct private-sector obligations today.
- →Watch for a revised NIST AI Risk Management Framework and plan to update internal controls.
- →Brief federal sales teams on procurement expectations for large language models the administration deems free of ideological bias.
- →Map where your company relies on state AI rules that federal funding decisions may weigh.
- →Review the three executive orders on AI procurement, data center permitting, and AI exports for contract impacts.
- →Add AI-specific scenarios to incident response plans if you serve or contract with federal agencies.
Governance Controls
Operational controls that implement requirements from this regulation.