Sec. 516. Policy on required user adoption metrics in certain contracts for artificial intelligence software products
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It is the sense of Congress that— it is critical that the intelligence community acquire products that can be integrated, to the highest extent possible, within existing workflows and personnel capabilities; one step toward that goal is ensuring that products procured by the intelligence community have user-adoption metrics, which allow programmers and vendors to assess the effectiveness of a given product to an intelligence community user; requiring such metrics also incentivizes vendors to incorporate training and adoption programs into their products, as opposed to contracts which simply sell an application to the intelligence community with no customer success feature built in; and in addition, this data is critical to informing decisions about the continued use of a product, including relating to whether a prototype will transition from development to an enterprise-wide contract or program of record.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Director of National Intelligence shall establish a policy containing the following: With respect to a contract or other agreement entered into between the head of an element of the intelligence community and a commercial provider for the acquisition of a covered product for users within the intelligence community— a requirement that each such contract or other agreement include, as a term of the contract or agreement, a commitment by the commercial provider to furnish a means of collecting user adoption metrics for assessing the adoption of the covered product by such users; and a requirement that the head assess the user adoption of the covered product through such means.
Such exceptions to the requirements under paragraph
(1)as may be determined appropriate by the Director. Not later than 1 year after the date on which the Director of National Intelligence establishes the policy under subsection (b), and annually thereafter for 3 years, the Director, in coordination with the heads of the elements of the intelligence community, shall submit to the congressional intelligence committees a report on the user adoption metrics for each covered product acquired using, in whole or in part, funds made available under the National Intelligence Program. Each report under paragraph
(1)shall include, with respect to the year covered by the report, the following: A detailed description of the effectiveness of the policy under subsection (b), including a cost-benefit analysis of such policy. A summary of the user adoption metrics collected pursuant to such policy for each program referred to in paragraph (1). An identification of any instance in which the head of an element of the intelligence community determined that requiring a commitment to furnish a means of collecting user adoption metrics as a term of a contract or agreement pursuant to such policy was not practicable pursuant to an exception specified in subsection (b)(2) and, as a result, did not require such commitment. A justification for the continuation of the use of any covered product acquired by the head of an element of the intelligence community that the head has determined, pursuant to an assessment required under subsection (b)(1)(B), was not sufficiently adopted by users or otherwise received negative user feedback. Any other matters, including any relevant recommendations, determined appropriate by the Director. Each report under paragraph
(1)shall be submitted prior to the date of the presentation of the consolidated National Intelligence Program budget for the year covered by the report to the President for approval pursuant to section 102A(c) of the National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 U.S.C. 3024 ). In this section: The term covered product means a commercial software product that involves artificial intelligence. The term National Intelligence Program has the meaning given that term in section 3 of the National Security Act of 1947 ( 50 U.S.C. 3003 ).
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Policy on required user adoption metrics in certain contracts for artificial intelligence software products
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