Sec. 930. Framework for classification of autonomous capabilities
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Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer of the Department of Defense, in consultation with the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy, the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, the commanders of the combatant commands, and the Secretaries of the military departments, shall establish a Department-wide classification framework for autonomous capabilities. The purpose of the framework required under subsection
(a)shall be to facilitate the development of a common understanding within the Department of Defense of autonomous capabilities and related operational requirements to better plan for, resource, and integrate appropriate autonomy-enabling hardware and software into current and future systems across the Department. At a minimum, the framework required under subsection
(a)shall— include multiple levels of increasingly complex autonomous maneuver capability with a focus on classifying necessary levels of human supervision or control during operational use; apply to current and future autonomous systems operating across land, air, maritime, and space domains; include estimates of costs necessary to achieve specific levels of autonomous capability; and include— operational requirements including necessary levels of survivability in GPS- or communications-denied environments; specific operational or engagement scenarios; and necessary levels of teaming with other autonomous systems. Not later than 30 days after the establishment of the framework under subsection (a), the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report that includes a description of the framework and the specific methodologies, criteria, and operational requirements used to develop the classifications under the framework. Not less frequently than once every two years, the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer shall reassess and update the classification framework required under subsection
(a)to ensure the framework incorporates recent developments in technology, standards, and operational requirements relating to autonomous capabilities. Not later than 30 days of the completion of each reassessment under paragraph (1), the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer shall provide to the congressional defense committees a briefing on the results of the reassessment and any resulting revisions to the classification framework under subsection (a). Not later than 90 days after the establishment of the framework under subsection (a), the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy shall issue instructions to the military departments to implement such framework by operationalizing the use of the framework in the planning and budgeting processes of individual program offices. Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer of the Department of Defense shall develop and implement a plan and procedures to standardize the planning, resourcing, and integration efforts with respect to autonomous capabilities for current and future systems across the Department. The plan required under paragraph
(1)shall include the following: A Department-wide assessment of the status of efforts to resource and integrate autonomy software into current and future systems, including— the identification of current and future systems across the Department which can be integrated with autonomy software to enable continuous operational capability of such systems in GPS- or communications-denied environments, including those systems identified in the report required by section 246 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 ( Public Law 117–81 ; 135 Stat. 1622); and an assessment of gaps in— program funding related to the acquisition of autonomy software; acquisition processes, including the planning, programming, budgeting, and execution process for acquiring and integrating autonomy-enabling capabilities across relevant programs of record; training capabilities; testing, evaluation, verification, and validation capabilities in all environments, including virtual and real world environments; and efforts to test, resource, and scale commercially available technologies. A plan to address, to the maximum extent practicable, the gaps assessed in subparagraph (A), including— updated procedures to plan for autonomy software costs at the onset of the acquisition life cycle; plans to include in greater detail the projected autonomy software costs for applicable programs of record within period covered by the Future Years Defense Program; and plans to standardize the acquisition of autonomy software for programs of record across the military departments including the use of the capability classification framework under subsection (a). The Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer shall develop the plan under paragraph
(1)in consultation with— the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment; the Joint Chiefs of Staff; the senior acquisition executive of each military department; the commanders of the combatant commands; and such other organizations and elements of the Department of Defense as the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer determines appropriate. Not later than 90 days after the completion of the plan under paragraph (1), the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report that describes the specific elements of the plan. The report under subparagraph
(A)shall be submitted in unclassified form but may contain a classified annex.
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Framework for classification of autonomous capabilities
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