S.Amdt. 617

SA 617. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 2226, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2024 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. 2__. REVIEW OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INVESTMENT.

(a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall--
(1) review the current investment into applications of
artificial intelligence to the platforms, processes, and
operations of the Department of Defense; and
(2) categorize the types of artificial intelligence
investments by categories including but not limited to the
following:
(A) Automation.
(B) Machine learning.
(C) Autonomy.
(D) Robotics.
(E) Deep learning and neural network.
(F) Natural language processing.
(b) Report to Congress.--Not later than 120 days after the
completion of the review and categorization required by
subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the
congressional defense committees a report on--
(1) the findings of the Secretary with respect to the
review and any action taken or proposed to be taken by the
Secretary to address such findings; and
(2) an evaluation of how the findings of the Secretary
align with stated strategies of the Department of Defense
with regard to artificial intelligence and performance
objectives established in section 226 of the National Defense
Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (Public Law 117-81; 10
U.S.C. 4001 note).
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