Sec. 241. Steering committee on emerging technology
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There is established in the executive branch a steering committee on emerging technology and national security threats (referred to in this section as the Steering Committee ). The Steering Committee shall be composed of the following: The Deputy Secretary of Defense. The Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. The Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security. Such other officials of the Department of Defense as are jointly appointed to Steering Committee by the officials specified in paragraphs
(1)through (3). The officials specified in paragraphs
(1)through
(3)of subsection
(b)shall serve as co-chairs of the Steering Committee. Upon request of the co-chairs, the Department of Defense shall provide to the Steering Committee, on a reimbursable basis, such staff and administrative support services as are necessary for the Committee to carry out its responsibilities under this section. The Steering Committee shall be responsible for— developing a strategic vision for the organizational change, concept and capability development, and technology investments in emerging technologies that are needed to maintain the technological edge of the military and intelligence community of the United States; providing credible assessments of emerging threats and identifying investments and advances in emerging technology undertaken by adversaries of the United States; making recommendations to the Secretary of Defense on— the implementation of the strategy developed under to paragraph (1); and steps that may be taken to address the threats identified under to paragraph (2); coordinating with the Joint Committee on Research Environments of the National Science and Technology Council; ensuring emerging technologies procured and used by the military will be tested for algorithmic bias and discriminatory outcomes; and carrying out such other activities as are assigned to the Steering Committee by the Secretary of Defense. The co-chairs shall coordinate the activities of the Steering Committee with the activities of the Board of Directors of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center established under section 224, as appropriate. The co-chairs stall establish a working group, in coordination with the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency and such other departments and agencies of the Federal Government as the co-chairs deem appropriate, to— inform the Steering Committee’s activities with respect to the national security implications of machine-manipulated media (commonly known as deepfakes ); assess the Federal Government’s capabilities with respect to technologies to detect, or otherwise counter and combat, machine-manipulated media and other advanced image manipulation methods; assess the machine-manipulated media capabilities of foreign countries and non-state actors, with particular emphasis on the People’s Republic of China and the Russian Federation; and provide recommendations to the Steering Committee on the matters described in subparagraphs
(A)through (C). In this subsection, the term machine-manipulated media has the meaning given that term in section 5724(d) of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2020 ( Public Law 116–92 ). In this section, the term emerging technology means technology determined to be in an emerging phase of development by the Secretary of Defense, including quantum computing, technology for the analysis of large and diverse sets of data (commonly known as big data analytics ), artificial intelligence (including deepfake videos and related technologies), autonomous technology, robotics, directed energy, hypersonics, biotechnology, distributed ledger technology, and such other technology as may be identified by the Secretary.
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