AI Governance Briefing — March 14, 2025
Two weeks before the M-24-10 compliance deadline, Zeph Tech is validating 24-hour safety-impacting AI incident reporting channels and CAIO escalation drills.
Executive briefing: Office of Management and Budget Memorandum M-24-10 mandates that agencies operating safety-impacting AI notify OMB of serious incidents within 24 hours, alert affected individuals within seven business days, and brief the Chief AI Officer (CAIO) governance board. With the implementation deadline approaching, Zeph Tech is running government-grade incident simulations, checking contact matrices, and confirming evidence capture so federal partners meet the memorandum’s timeline.
Regulatory checkpoints
- Notification windows. Section 5 of M-24-10 sets 24-hour escalation to OMB and seven-business-day outreach to affected parties for safety-impacting AI incidents.
- CAIO oversight. Incidents must be reviewed by the agency’s CAIO-led governance board, with remediation plans and waiver implications documented for quarterly reports.
- Records management. Agencies must preserve incident logs, evaluation artefacts, and corrective actions for Inspector General and congressional oversight.
Operational safeguards
- Align telemetry, SOC tooling, and model operations dashboards so safety-impacting triggers automatically alert CAIO, CIO, CISO, privacy, and civil-rights officials.
- Pre-draft notification templates covering incident description, populations affected, mitigations, and planned follow-up to accelerate approvals.
- Ensure contracts and interagency agreements specify Zeph Tech’s role in providing forensic support, evaluation artefacts, and customer communications.
Next steps
- Fold incident metrics into March governance board packets to evidence readiness before the 365-day compliance review.
- Integrate lessons from simulations into Zeph Tech’s safety-impacting AI playbooks and knowledge base for future deployments.
- Track OMB and agency inspector general guidance for evolving definitions of reportable incidents and required artefacts.