S.Amdt. 3948

SA 3948. Mr. PORTMAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed
to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed
to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022
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:

SEC. 576. MILITARY TRAINING ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES.

(a) Integrating Digital Skill Sets and Computational
Thinking Into Military Junior Leader Education.--Not later
than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act,
the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Chief of Naval
Operations, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and the
Commandant of the Marine Corps shall expand the curriculum
for military junior leader education to incorporate
appropriate training material related to problem definition
and curation, a conceptual understanding of the artificial
intelligence lifecycle, data collection and management,
probabilistic reasoning and data visualization, and data-
informed decisionmaking. Whenever possible, the new training
and education should include the use of existing artificial
intelligence-enabled systems and tools.
(b) Integration of Material on Emerging Technologies Into
Professional Military

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Education.--Not later than one year after the date of the
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in
consultation with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, shall ensure
that the curriculum for professional military education is
revised in each of the military services to incorporate
periodic courses on militarily significant emerging
technologies that increasingly build the knowledge base,
vocabulary, and skills necessary to intelligently analyze and
utilize emerging technologies in the tactical, operational,
and strategic levels of warfighting and warfighting support.
(c) Emerging Technology-coded Billets Within the Department
of Defense.--
(1) In general.--Not later than one year after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall
ensure that the military services--
(A) code appropriate billets to be filled by emerging
technology-qualified officers; and
(B) develop a process for officers to become qualified in
emerging technologies.
(2) Appropriate positions.--Emerging technology-coded
positions may include, as appropriate--
(A) positions responsible for assisting with acquisition of
emerging technologies;
(B) positions responsible for helping integrate technology
into field units;
(C) positions responsible for developing organizational and
operational concepts;
(D) positions responsible for developing training and
education plans; and
(E) leadership positions at the operational and tactical
levels within the military services.
(3) Qualification process.--The process for qualifying
officers for emerging technology-coded billets shall be
modeled on a streamlined version of the joint qualification
process and may include credit for serving in emerging
technology focused fellowships, emerging technology focused
talent exchanges, emerging technology focused positions
within government, and educational courses focused on
emerging technologies.
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