S.Amdt. 958

SA 958. Mr. SULLIVAN (for himself and Mr. Young) 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 IX, insert the following:

SEC. 9__. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE A JOINT PANEL TO REVIEW
TECHNOLOGIES AND PROCESSES RELATED TO COMBINED
JOINT ALL DOMAIN COMMAND AND CONTROL.

(a) Establishment.--The Secretary of Defense shall convene
a joint panel consisting of senior representatives from the
Department of Defense, private sector companies, and industry
associations to identify, form, and promote technologies that
will rapidly advance the interoperability of military
platforms necessary for Combined Joint All Domain Command and
Control (CJADC2).
(b) Technology Areas to Review.--The joint panel convened
pursuant to subsection (a) shall review technology areas
applicable to Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control,
including the following:
(1) Enterprise level technical standards and protocols.
(2) Artificial intelligence and machine learning
technologies.
(3) Data requirements.
(4) Advanced communications technologies.
(5) Networking technologies.
(6) Enterprise and edge cloud technologies.
(7) Interoperability technologies.
(8) The Third Generation Partnership Program (3GPP) and the
National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) of the mobile
telecommunications industry.
(c) Meetings.--The joint panel convened pursuant to
subsection (a) shall meet as determined by the Secretary but
not less frequently than annually.
(d) Publication.--The Secretary may publish recommendations
of the joint panel to promote interoperability of military
platforms and the development and deployment of Combined
Joint All Domain Command and Control enabling capabilities.
(e) Inapplicability of FACA.--The meetings and discussion
of the joint panel shall not be subject to the requirements
of chapter 10 of title 5, United States Code.
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