S.Amdt. 288

SA 288. Ms. BALDWIN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
her to the bill S. 1790, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2020 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. ___. EDGE COMPUTING PLAN.

(a) In General.--Not later than 90 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Chief Information Officer of
the Department of Defense shall develop and submit to the
congressional defense committees a plan to implement, manage,
coordinate, and field evolving commercial edge computing
technologies--
(1) to improve the performance of C3I, logistics, and
warfighting systems of the Department; and
(2) to ensure the military departments and defense agencies
are postured to quickly take advantage of the innovation
occurring in the private sector in artificial intelligence
and machine learning.
(b) Contents.--The plan submitted under subsection (a)
shall include plans to develop policies, procedures, budgets,
and accelerated acquisition and contracting mechanisms for
edge computing.

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(c) Definition of Edge Computing.--In this section, the
term ``edge computing'' means a method of optimizing
applications or cloud computing systems by taking some
portion of an application, its data, or services away from
one or more central nodes (referred to as the ``core'') to
the other logical extreme (referred to as the ``edge'') of
the Internet which makes contact with the physical world or
end users.
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