Publication
June 16, 2025

Artificial Intelligence (AI) Field Guide for Public Sector Enterprises

EDITION 2 JUNE 2025

(EDITION 1 RELEASED JUNE 2021)

Are federal agencies AI ready and how can they benefit?

Both the federal government and are investing in artificial intelligence (AI), to learn cognitive human functions capable of deriving insights at scale—key to our nation’s digital dominance. However, many organizations are unsure how to best use data to power their mission, enable effective and rapid decision-making and ensure the digital fluency of their workforce. This Field Guide shares key considerations, challenges, benefits, practical guidance and best practices for public sector organizations seeking to adopt AI within their enterprise.

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Navigating the Field Guide

AI Capabilities: Percieving the Environment, Understanding Language, Gathering & Using Knowlege, Automation Action, Making Decisions, Harnessing Creativity and Generative AI, Machine Learning Primer, Unleashing the Power of LLMsThe Noblis AI Field Guide provides a wide-ranging overview of AI technologies, adoption considerations and responsible AI practices. The Guide consists of four chapters:

  1. AI Capabilities: A primer on AI-related capabilities, including machine learning (ML), Natural Language Processing (NLP) and machine decision making.
  2. The AI Playbook: Best practice guidelines for implementing AI programs within an organization.
  3. Responsible AI: Guidelines for organizations developing and adopting AI technologies and services in a secure, unbiased and ethical AI manner, with an example framework to enable users in doing so.
  4. Special Topics in Emerging AI Technologies: Various short articles covering new research and developments in the field. The Field Guide informs readers about the rapidly evolving AI technology landscape, provides a roadmap for organizations to harness the benefits of AI technology and promotes AI adoption—responsibly— across the public sector.
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Noblis is turning data problems into data solutions by harnessing the power of high-performance computing, AI and ML.

We help agencies transform into data-driven organizations by providing end-to-end, rapid analytics and AI/ML capabilities to build proactive systems and develop actionable insights. We help make sense of data to solve mission-critical problems and identify cyber, physical and biological threats.