S.Amdt. 3484

SA 3484. Mr. KELLY (for himself and Mr. Cornyn) submitted an
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2296, to
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2026 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 end of subtitle B of title IX, add the following:

SEC. 923. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE ADVISORY SUBCOMMITTEE TO
REVIEW TECHNOLOGIES, PROCESSES, AND INVESTMENT
RELATED TO COMBINED JOINT ALL-DOMAIN COMMAND
AND CONTROL.

(a) Establishment.--The Secretary of Defense may establish
a subcommittee (referred to in this section as the
``Subcommittee'') under the board of advisors established
pursuant to section 233 of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021
(Public Law 116-283; 10 U.S.C. 4001 note) to review
technologies to achieve combined joint all-domain command and
control.
(b) Members.--The Subcommittee shall consist of a subset of
the members of the board of advisors described in subsection
(a).
(c) Areas of Review.--The Subcommittee may review the
following:
(1) Processes for integrating joint effects chains to
support priority operational challenges.
(2) Data architectures, including potential roles for
artificial intelligence and machine learning technologies.
(3) Methods for achieving a platform-agnostic joint common
operating picture through data accessibility,
interoperability, and integration into combatant command
workflows, to assist the incorporation of commercial
communications technologies.
(4) Networking technologies, including potential roles for
artificial intelligence and machine learning.
(5) Enterprise and edge cloud technologies.
(6) Interoperability technologies, including software
programs like the System-of-Systems Technology Integration
Tool Chain for Heterogeneous Electronic Systems (commonly
referred to as ``STITCHES'').
(7) Interoperability technologies to integrate vehicles out
of the Replicator project with relevant battle networks.
(8) Any other matters determined relevant by the Secretary
of Defense.
(d) Termination.--The Subcommittee shall terminate on
December 31, 2029.
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