S.Amdt. 3138

SA 3138. 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. __. ADVANCED COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE TO ENABLE ADVANCED
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAPABILITIES.

(a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall establish
an advanced computing infrastructure program within the
Department of Defense.
(b) Development and Expansion of High-performance Computing
Infrastructure.--
(1) In general.--In carrying out subsection (a), the
Secretary shall expand upon the current infrastructure of the
Department for development and deployment of military
applications of high-performance computing and artificial
intelligence that are located on-premises at Department
installations or accessible via commercial classified cloud
providers.
(2) Artificial intelligence applications.--(A) The
Secretary shall ensure that some of the infrastructure
capacity developed pursuant to paragraph (1) is dedicated to
providing access to modern artificial intelligence
accelerators, configured consistently with industry best
practices, for training, fine-tuning, modifying, and
deploying large artificial intelligence systems.
(B) In carrying out subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall
ensure, to the extent practical, that new artificial
intelligence system development is not performed using
infrastructure capacity described in such subparagraph that
is duplicative of readily available commercial or open source
solutions.
(c) High-performance Computing Roadmap.--
(1) In general.--The Secretary shall develop a high-
performance computing roadmap that describes the computing
infrastructure needed to research, test, develop, and
evaluate advanced artificial intelligence applications
projected over the period covered by the future-years defense
program.
(2) Assessment.--The roadmap developed pursuant to
paragraph (1) shall assess anticipated artificial
intelligence applications, including the computing needs
associated with their development, and the evaluation,
milestones, and resourcing needs to maintain and expand the
computing infrastructure necessary for those computing needs.
(d) Artificial Intelligence System Development.--
(1) In general.--Using the infrastructure from the program
established under subsection (a), the Secretary shall develop
artificial intelligence systems that have general-purpose
military 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. Such
systems may use openly or commercially available artificial
intelligence systems, including those available via
classified cloud providers, as a base for additional
development such as fine-tuning.
(e) Coordination and Duplication.--In establishing the
program required by subsection (a), the Secretary shall
consult with the Secretary of Energy to ensure no duplication
of activities carried out under this section with the
activities of research entities of the Department of Energy,
including the following:
(1) The National Laboratories.
(2) The Advanced Scientific Computing Research program.
(3) The Advanced Simulation and Computing program.
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