S.Amdt. 1916

SA 1916. Mr. HEINRICH (for himself and Mrs. Blackburn) 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 B of title II, add the following:

SEC. ___. INCREASING HUMAN RESOURCES WORKFORCE LITERACY IN
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE.

(a) Finding.--Congress finds that the National Security
Commission on Artificial Intelligence made the following
recommendation in their March 2020 Report to Congress:
(b) Increasing Human Resources Workforce Literacy in
Artificial Intelligence.--
(1) In general.--Not later than one year after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense may
develop a training and certification program on software
development, data science, and artificial intelligence that
is tailored to the needs of the covered human resources
workforce of the Department of Defense.
(2) Elements.--The program course required by paragraph (1)
shall--
(A) provide a generalist's introduction to software
development and business processes, data management practices
relating to machine learning, deep learning, artificial
intelligence, and artificial intelligence workforce roles;
and
(B) address hiring options and processes available for
software developers, data scientists, and artificial
intelligence professionals, including direct hiring
authorities, excepted service authorities, the
Intergovernmental Personnel Act of 1970 (42 U.S.C. 4701 et
seq.), and authorities for hiring special government
employees and highly qualified experts.
(3) Objective.--It shall be the objective of the Department
to provide the training under the program developed pursuant
to paragraph (1) to the covered human resources workforce in
such a manner that--
(A) in the first year, 20 percent of the workforce is
certified as having successfully completed the training; and
(B) in each year thereafter, an additional 10 percent of
the workforce is certified, until the Department achieves and
maintains a status in which 80 percent of the covered human
resources workforce is so certified.
(c) Covered Human Resources Workforce.--In this section,
the term ``covered human resources workforce'' means human
resources professionals, hiring managers, and recruiters who
are or will be responsible for hiring software developers,
data scientists, or artificial intelligence professionals.
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