Use case · Federal & government
Sell AI to the federal government.
You built an AI product. You want a federal contract. Procurement is about to ask five questions you don’t have answers for yet. Here’s the exact path — before the meeting.
What procurement will ask
Five questions that stall the deal.
These are not hypothetical. They appear on federal vendor risk assessments, enterprise security questionnaires, and ATO review checklists. You will be asked every one of them.
“How does your AI system align to the NIST AI Risk Management Framework?”
NIST AI RMF is required for all federal AI deployments under Executive Order 14110. Procurement expects a documented risk profile, not a verbal description.
“Where is your System Security Plan in OSCAL format?”
FedRAMP required machine-readable OSCAL SSPs as of September 30, 2026. A PDF document is no longer sufficient. You need a structured, machine-readable authorization package.
“Do you have a documented AI management system?”
ISO 42001 is the international standard for AI management systems. Federal and enterprise procurement teams are increasingly requiring demonstrated alignment — not certification, but documented evidence.
“What human oversight controls govern your AI outputs?”
The question behind the question: can a human review, approve, and override every consequential AI decision? If your answer is 'our model is accurate,' you've already lost the room.
“What evidence do you have that your AI doesn't hallucinate or drift?”
This is the question nobody can answer without a running quality system. A one-time benchmark score is not evidence. A continuous, human-approved evaluation log is.
The authorization path
Five steps from product to authorization.
This is the sequence. Each step builds the evidence the next step requires.
Map to NIST AI RMF
The NIST AI Risk Management Framework (Govern, Map, Measure, Manage) is the baseline every federal AI procurement will reference. Start by documenting which AI systems you operate, what they do, and what can go wrong. This is your risk profile.
AI Quality Agent — build the checks your risk profile needsAuthor your guardrails
Translate your risk profile into validation rules. Which outputs require human approval? What constitutes a hallucination for your domain? What does drift look like in your system? These rules become the human-in-the-loop firewall procurement is asking for.
GuardRails — human-approval validation frameworkSeal the evidence
Compile your approved guardrails, human review logs, and quality metrics into a sealed, portable evidence package. This is what you hand to a procurement officer — not a slide deck, a PROOF_REPORT.md they can run themselves.
Vault — sealed wisdom delivery with prove.shGenerate OSCAL documentation
Federal authorization requires machine-readable documentation. Your Vault evidence maps to OSCAL control families. This is the package your Authorizing Official reviews on the path to an Authority to Operate.
Vault + OSCAL evidence packageProve it before the meeting
Send prove.sh to your contracting officer before the walkthrough call. They run it on their own machine in ten minutes and arrive already holding PROOF_REPORT.md. The first question becomes 'which domain do we expand' — not 'can we trust your AI.'
Vault Proof Kit — download and run before the callMandate timeline
Every major mandate is now in effect.
There are no upcoming dates to wait for. Every compliance mandate that will block your federal deal is already active. You are either ready or you are not.
Jan 2023
NIST AI RMF 1.0 published
EO 14110 mandated federal agency adoption. All federal AI deployments must align.
Dec 2023
ISO 42001 published
First international AI management system standard. Enterprise procurement increasingly required.
Aug 2025
EU AI Act — GPAI rules in effect
General-purpose AI governance requirements active for EU market access.
Aug 2026
EU AI Act — High-risk AI in effect
Full Annex III requirements active. AI in healthcare, hiring, critical infrastructure, education.
Sep 30, 2026
FedRAMP OSCAL SSP required
All FedRAMP authorization packages must be machine-readable OSCAL. PDF SSPs no longer accepted.
The evidence package
What you hand to the contracting officer.
A compliance conversation ends when you hand someone a document they can verify themselves. This is what a SysWisdom Vault delivery gives you.
vault.tar
Sealed wisdom image
Your domain guardrails compiled and containerized. Runs inside your infrastructure. No external calls.
PROOF_REPORT.md
Machine-verifiable evidence
Human-readable. OSCAL-mappable. The document your contracting officer reviews before authorization.
prove.sh
Self-running verification
Ten checks. Run it on any machine in ten minutes. The contracting officer runs it themselves — you don't demo it.
SysWisdom · Federal use case
Don’t lose the deal because you don’t have the evidence.
A SysWisdom Vault delivery gives you the evidence package before procurement asks. Start with the free proof kit — download it, run it in ten minutes, and arrive at the conversation already holding the report.