S.Amdt. 2428

SA 2428. 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, 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 XVI, insert the
following:

SEC. __. CREATION OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE IMPLEMENTATION
WORKING GROUPS THROUGHOUT THE DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE.

The Secretary of Defense shall take the following actions:
(1) Create artificial intelligence implementation working
groups at appropriate levels.
(2) Involve employees and employee representatives as full
partners with management representatives in the working
groups created under paragraph (1) to improve the use of
artificial intelligence throughout the Department of Defense
to better serve the public and carry out the mission of the
Department.
(3)(A) Allow employees and employee representatives to have
pre-decisional involvement in workplace matters regarding the
implementation of artificial intelligence to the fullest
extent practicable, without regard to whether those matters
are negotiable subjects of bargaining under section 7106 of
title 5, United States Code.
(B) Provide adequate information on the matters described
in subparagraph (A) expeditiously to employee representatives
where not prohibited by law.
(C) Make a good-faith attempt to resolve issues concerning
proposed implementation of artificial intelligence
technologies through discussions in the artificial
intelligence implementation working groups created by the
Secretary under paragraph (1).
(4) Evaluate progress and improvements in organizational
performance resulting from the artificial intelligence
implementation working groups created under paragraph (1).
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