Overview

• Llama is being added to GSA’s approved AI tools under the OneGov strategy, enabling all federal agencies to experiment with and deploy the model after backend verification of legal and security requirements.
• Because Llama is publicly available, GSA required no traditional procurement negotiations and instead validated compliance to provide consistent government-wide access.
• Meta and GSA emphasize that the open-source release allows on-premises or secure environment hosting, giving agencies full control over data processing and storage for multimodal use cases such as contract review and IT support.
• Meta is offering Llama to agencies for free, though neither GSA nor the company has specified how long the no-cost access will last.
• The move enters a crowded federal AI market where AWS, Microsoft, Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI have secured approvals with steep discounts, as Meta also highlights national-security deployments and expands allied access to the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, South Korea, NATO, and EU institutions.