Sec. 1622. Establishing projects for data management, artificial intelligence, and digital solutions
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The Deputy Secretary of Defense shall— establish priority enterprise projects for data management, artificial intelligence, and digital solutions for both business efficiency and warfighting capabilities intended to accelerate decision advantage; and assign responsibilities for execution and funding of the projects established under paragraph (1). To ensure implementation of the priority projects of the Deputy Secretary of Defense under subsection (a), and to instill data science and technology as a core discipline in the Department of Defense, the Deputy Secretary shall— hold the heads of Department components accountable for— making their component’s data available for use in common enterprise data sets in accordance with plans developed and approved by the head of the component and the Deputy Secretary; developing, implementing, and reporting measurable actions to acquire, preserve, and grow the population of government and contractor personnel with expertise in data management, artificial intelligence, and digital solutions; making their components use data management practices, analytics processes, computing environments, and operational test environments that are made available and specifically approved by the head of the component and the Deputy Secretary; identifying and reporting on an annual basis for Deputy Secretary approval those ongoing programs and activities and new initiatives within their components to which the component head determines should be applied advanced analytics, digital technology, and artificial intelligence; and developing and implementing cybersecurity solutions, including red team assessments, to protect artificial intelligence systems, data, development processes, and applications from adversary actions; require the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer and the heads of Department components to develop and report on an actionable plan for the Deputy Secretary to promulgate to reform the technologies, policies, and processes used to support accreditation and authority to operate decisions to enable rapid deployment into operational environments of newly developed government, contractor, and commercial software; require the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer and heads of Department components to define and establish career paths, work roles, and occupational specialties for civilian and military personnel in the fields of data management, artificial intelligence, and digital solutions for the Deputy Secretary’s approval; and establish a Departmental management reform goal for adoption and integration artificial intelligence or machine learning into business and warfighting processes, including the tracking of metrics, milestones, and initiatives to measure the progress of the Department in meeting that goal.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act and not less frequently than once every six months thereafter until December 31, 2025, the Deputy Secretary shall provide to the congressional defense committees a briefing on directives issued by the Deputy Secretary to implement the requirements of this section and the status of implementation actions. In this section, the term component means a military department, a combatant command, or a defense agency of the Department of Defense.