S.Amdt. 1894

SA 1894. Mr. PORTMAN (for himself and Mr. Bennet) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4049, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2021 for military activities
of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for
defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military
personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which
was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the end of subtitle C of title II, add the following:

SEC. ___. REPORT ON DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE STRATEGY ON
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE STANDARDS.

(a) Report Required.--Not later than 180 days after the
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense
shall submit to Congress a report on the role of the
Department of Defense in the development of artificial
intelligence standards.
(b) Contents.--The report required by subsection (a) shall
include an assessment of each of the following:
(1) The need for the Department of Defense to develop an
artificial intelligence standards strategy.
(2) Any efforts to date on the development of such a
strategy.
(3) The ways in which an artificial intelligence standards
strategy will improve the national security.
(4) How the Secretary intends to collaborate with--
(A) the Director of the National Institute of Standards and
Technology;
(B) the Secretary of Homeland Security;
(C) the intelligence community;
(D) the Secretary of State;
(E) representatives of private industry, specifically
representatives of the defense industrial base; and
(F) representatives of any other agencies, entities,
organizations, or persons the Secretary considers
appropriate.
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