Sec. 235. Strategy for autonomy integration in major weapon systems
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Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives a strategy to resource and integrate, to the maximum extent possible, autonomy software that enables full operational capability in high threat, communications and GPS-denied environments into major weapons systems of the Department of Defense by fiscal year 2025. The strategy required under subsection
(a)shall include— a list of weapon systems and programs, to be selected by the Secretary of Defense, which can be integrated with autonomy software as described in subsection
(a)by fiscal year 2025; timelines for autonomy software integration into the weapon systems and programs as identified under paragraph (1); funding requirements related to the development, acquisition, and testing of autonomy software; plans to leverage commercially-available artificial intelligence software, universal common control software, and autonomy software and related self-driving or self-piloting technologies, where appropriate; and plans to include autonomy software, artificial intelligence, and universal common control. The Secretary shall develop the strategy required under subsection
(a)in consultation with— the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering; the Secretaries of the military departments; and such other organizations and elements of the Department of Defense as the Secretary determines appropriate. Not later than one year after the date on which the strategy required under subsection
(a)is submitted to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives, and not later than October 1 of each of the five years thereafter, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives a report that describes the status of the implementation of the strategy. The report required under paragraph
(1)shall— identify any substantial changes made in the strategy during the preceding calendar year; and describe the progress made in implementing the strategy. The strategy required under subsection
(a)and the report required under subsection
(d)shall be submitted in unclassified form but may contain a classified annex.