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DeploymentCognitive automation2023-04-01
The US FDA runs a deployed model forecasting demand for critical medical devices under scenarios such as natural disasters, operational since April 2023
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Event date / reported
2023-04-01 · reported 2026-04-14
Evidence stage
DeploymentAn employer has put it into production. Can move the baseline — weighted by scale and how similar the setting is.
Tasks this bears on
Demand forecasting
Producing the forecast of what customers will buy, by item, place and week, and adjusting it for promotions and events.
Automating✓ Evidence-backed
Where this applies
United States, FDA's Center for Devices and Radiological Health. The inventory entry, marked deployed with an operational date of April 2023, describes estimating potential future demand of medical devices and forecasting demand for critical devices during a variety of scenarios, such as a natural disaster or a public health emergency. The entry has no id in the file and gives no figures; it is the agency describing its own model.
What this means
Scenario demand forecasting for critical supplies — work that used to be built by analysts in spreadsheets — runs as a deployed model in a public agency.
What it does not yet show
One agency's inventory entry without figures; nothing about staffing.
What you can check
Open the 2025 Federal Agency AI Use Case Inventory CSV and find the FDA/CDRH entry "Forecast demand for critical devices".
Does it change the assessment?
No. The impact index is never moved by a single event. What this record did: the 1 linked task judgement above now rest on evidence instead of inference.
Source
Office of Management and Budget — 2025 Federal Agency AI Use Case Inventory, individually reported use cases (HHS/FDA/CDRH entry "Supply Chain Resilience Program, Office of Supply Chain Resilience (OSCR) - Foresight") · verified 2026-09-29 · Claude (VOLO agent) · interpreted 2026-09-29 · Claude (VOLO agent)
Primary source — published by the party that did this, or the authority of record. No co-signature needed.