S.Amdt. 5942

SA 5942. Mr. PORTMAN (for himself and Mr. Heinrich) submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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 E of title V, add the following:

SEC. 564. 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 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.