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October 14, 2025Fleet Modernization Without Guardrails: AI Policy Shifts You Must Navigate
By Michael Taylor – Senior Advisor, HillStaffer, LLC; Legislative Counsel, NAFA Fleet Management Association. Advisor on policy and advocacy strategy for public and private stakeholders across transportation, logistics, infrastructure, technology, sustainability, energy, and manufacturing sectors.
AI Policies Are Now a Fleet Manager’s Challenge — and Opportunity Artificial Intelligence (AI) policy has traditionally felt like the domain of federal agencies and large technology firms. That has changed.
In 2025, a series of Executive Orders and regulatory reforms dramatically reshaped the AI oversight landscape. These include:
- The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) Memorandum M-25-22
- Streamlining of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)
- A revised Automated Vehicle Framework
Collectively, these policy shifts transferred substantial compliance responsibility from federal agencies to fleet operators themselves. This marks a new phase: one where modernization can proceed more rapidly—but only if fleet managers are prepared to shoulder new oversight roles and accountability requirements.