S.Amdt. 2426

SA 2426. Mr. SCHATZ 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,

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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. __. AUTHORIZATION FOR THE AUTONOMY STANDARDS AND IDEALS
WITH MILITARY OPERATIONAL VALUES (ASIMOV)
PROGRAM.

Of the amount authorized to be appropriated for fiscal year
2025 by section 201 for research, development, test, and
evaluation and available for research and development by the
Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, up to $22,000,000
may be used for a program to evaluate autonomy software for
adherence to the policies and principles of the Department of
Defense.
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