Guam secures cyber-defenders credits; task force asked to circulate government-wide AI inventory survey

Rhonda Padmore Hill briefed the task force on two linked efforts: Guam's participation in an Anthropic-led Cyber Defenders program and a proposed government-wide AI inventory and risk assessment survey.

Rhonda said Guam "received $100,000 in first-party credits" for Anthropic's OPUS family, six months of platform access, and weekly technical training sessions led by Entropic engineers. She cautioned that many core government applications are vendor-managed, which limits the ability to perform source-code review or direct vulnerability scanning; therefore Guam’s participation will focus on knowledge transfer, technical notes, and best practices rather than code-level remediation for vendor-managed systems.

Separately, Rhonda requested the task force chair formally transmit a uniform AI inventory and risk assessment survey to agency heads as an official task force item. She described the survey's five sections (system identification; data and accountability; explainability and bias mitigation; and risk management and controls) and said it was structured to align with the NIST Risk Management Framework and to support statutory requirements in public law 38-77 (sections cited in the presentation). The subcommittee asked agencies to review and provide feedback and noted the University of Guam IRB review may be required for survey circulation.

Why it matters: a coordinated inventory will give the territory a factual baseline to assess AI use, lines of accountability, and where mitigation protocols are needed. The cyber-defenders participation provides training and exposure to frontier tool defenses but does not substitute for vendor cooperation where source code is not controlled by agencies.