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The Department of Veterans Affairs is using artificial intelligence (AI) to improve how Veterans access care, benefits, and services, while also helping employees work more efficiently and effectively. The VA 2025 AI Inventory reflects that progress, offering a transparent look at how AI is being developed, tested, and deployed across the department. This public inventory showcases our dedication to transparent and responsible innovation, and enables us to track, evaluate, and optimize our AI systems while ensuring VA AI systems are safe, secure and responsible. This year’s inventory shows steady growth, stronger governance, and expanding real-world impact, particularly in health care, benefits processing, and operational efficiency.
AI is improving how Veterans receive their benefits, reducing VA’s administrative burden (thereby improving cost effectiveness and service delivery), and increasing the quality of care provided to Veterans. Our AI use cases reflect VA’s commitment to embracing emerging technology while minimizing risks. These use cases represent Veteran-centric innovation from across the department, geographically and functionally, ranging from improved identification of health risks to expedited delivery of benefits to Veterans and their families.
Examples of AI contributing to VA’s mission today.
VA GPT: VA’s Generative AI Chat
VA GPT is an on-network generative AI chat interface that employees are using to assist with basic administrative tasks (drafting emails, summarizing documents, summarizing meeting notes, etc.). This product currently has over 95,000 users onboarded. Survey results show more than 70% of users report improved job satisfaction and users report saving 2-3 hours of time per week on average.
AI-Assisted Software Development
VA has implemented AI-assisted software development tools, now used by more than 2,000 developers. Survey results show that users save an average of over 8 hours per week, and 74% report the product enables them to focus on work that is more satisfying to them.
AI-Assisted Clinical Decision Support
The Veterans Health Administration Stratification Tool for Opioid Risk Mitigation (STORM) is an AI-driven clinical decision support system designed to help mitigate risk factors for overdose and suicide among Veterans who are prescribed opioids and/or with opioid use disorder. Implementation of this system is associated with a 22% decrease in mortality.
AI-Assisted Colonoscopy
VHA has deployed several FDA-approved devices that use computer vision to enhance clinician performance, which has resulted in significantly improved detection of tumors. A VA study demonstrated that the provision of colonoscopy AI devices resulted in a statistically significant 21% increase in the odds of adenoma detection and an absolute increase in the detection rate of approximately 4% compared to colonoscopy without the device. Increased adenoma detection rates are associated with lower late-stage cancer incidence and reduced mortality.
Identifying potentially fraudulent changes related to payments
Most direct deposit changes at VA are safe, but 1-2 out of 1,000 are fraudulent changes to steal Veterans’ benefit payments. The Payment Redirect Fraud (PRF) model is using AI to identify which changes are likely to be fraudulent and refer those incidents to team investigators for review and remediation.
The VA AI Inventory is VA’s official record of AI use across the department. It promotes transparency, supports responsible AI governance, and helps ensure that AI tools are aligned with Veteran needs and federal requirements. The 2025 inventory includes 367 AI use cases in the Individual AI Inventory and 13 AI Use Cases in the Consolidated AI Inventory.
Individual AI Inventory
The individual inventory provides detailed information on 367 AI use cases, including:
This level of detail underscores how each AI capability contributes to Veteran services and mission outcomes.
Consolidated AI Inventory
The consolidated inventory offers a high-level snapshot of 13 widely used AI use cases across VA. It highlights:
Together, these views provide both depth and clarity, showing how AI is being used today and where it is headed next.
The VA AI Inventory is a comprehensive view of how VA Is using artificial intelligence to enhance Veteran services.
Individual Inventory
Explore these use cases by viewing the dashboard below, or by downloading the Excel file: VA AI Use Case Inventory (Excel, 180KB).
Consolidated Inventory
View the consolidated inventory by downloading the Excel file: VA AI Consolidated Use Case Inventory (Excel, 16KB).
Our current inventory as of: December 2025
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