S.Amdt. 2293

SA 2293. Mr. SCHUMER (for himself and Mr. Heinrich) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4638, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2025 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 appropriate place in title II, insert the following:

SEC. __. HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING AND ARTIFICIAL
INTELLIGENCE CAPABILITIES.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall establish a
high-performance computing program across the Department of
Defense.
(b) Construction of Supercomputers.--
(1) In general.--In carrying out subsection (a), the
Secretary shall construct supercomputers for development and
deployment of military applications of high-performance
computing and artificial intelligence that are located on-
premises at Department of Defense installations.
(2) Availability.--The Secretary shall make available all
of the computing resources from the supercomputers
constructed under paragraph (1) to all employees of the
Department, with limited exceptions for specific elements of
the Armed Forces at the discretion of the Secretary.
(3) High-end applications.--The Secretary shall ensure that
at least one of the supercomputers constructed pursuant to
paragraph (1) is a capability class system for high-end
applications requiring sustained use of a large number of
processors.
(c) Research and Development.--
(1) In general.--In carrying out subsection (a), the
Secretary shall perform research and development for--
(A) software applications in military science and
engineering; and
(B) artificial intelligence applications relevant to such
disciplines.
(2) Focus.--Research and development under paragraph (1)
shall be focused on applications that do not have a readily
available commercial solution that can be procured by the
Department.
(d) High-end Artificial Intelligence Systems.--
(1) In general.--In carrying out subsection (a), the
Secretary shall develop high-end artificial intelligence
systems that have general-purpose military or intelligence
applications for language, image, audio, video, and other
data modalities.
(2) Training of systems.--The Secretary shall ensure that
systems developed pursuant to paragraph (1) are trained using
datasets curated by the Department using general, openly or
commercially available sources of such data, or data owned by
the Department, depending on the appropriate use case.
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