Sec. 332. Strategy and assessment on use of automation and artificial intelligence for shipyard optimization
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The Secretary of Navy, in coordination with the Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program, shall develop and implement a strategy to leverage commercial best practices used in shipyards to make operations more efficient and demonstrate a digital maintenance artificial intelligence platform that analyzes data on the maintenance and health of shipboard assets of the Navy at shipyards, which shall improve readiness of the Armed Forces, predict and diagnose issues before they occur, and lower maintenance costs.
The Secretary of Navy shall assess the costs of maintenance delays on shipboard assets of the Navy and assess the potential cost savings of adopting artificial intelligence predictive maintenance technology techniques that help determine the condition of in-service equipment to estimate when maintenance should be performed rather than waiting until failure or end of life, including— an analysis of maintenance delays and costs due to unplanned and unpredicted maintenance issues; an evaluation of opportunities to demonstrate commercial best practices at shipyards, including artificial intelligence technologies to ensure timely predictions for maintainers and planners at shipyards by connecting datasets, executing models, and providing outputs in near real-time; an identification of shipyard assets of the Navy with sufficient data available to enable near-term demonstrations of artificial intelligence predictive maintenance and an estimate of resources needed within the Navy to accelerate the demonstration of predictive artificial intelligence capabilities with respect to those assets; and an identification of any policy or technical challenges to implementing artificial intelligence or machine learning for purposes of carrying out the Shipyard Infrastructure Optimization Program.
Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Navy shall provide to the congressional defense committees a briefing on— the strategy developed by the Secretary under subsection (a); the results of the assessment under subsection (b); and a plan to execute any measures pursuant to such assessment.