Sec. 1533. COST BUDGETING FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DATA

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## SEC. 1533 COST BUDGETING FOR ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE DATA ###

(a)Plan Required 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 Acquisition and Sustainment and the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering, shall develop a plan to ensure that the budgeting process for programs containing artificial intelligence components or subcomponents, including artificial intelligence support systems, models, or analysis tools, includes estimates for the types of data required to train, maintain, or improve the artificial intelligence components or subcomponents contained within such programs and estimated costs for the acquisition and sustainment of such data. ###

(b)Elements of Plan The plan required under subsection

(a)shall include the following: ####

(1)An assessment of the current programs of the Department of Defense containing artificial intelligence components or subcomponents, such as large language models, including the sources and costs for structured and unstructured training data for such artificial intelligence components. ####

(2)An estimate of the costs associated with the data required to train, maintain, or improve artificial intelligence models or systems for programs that are ongoing or proposed as of enactment of this Act and which are not otherwise currently accounted for in a program of record. ####

(3)An estimate of the costs associated with providing access to capabilities for data preparation, including tooling, indexing, and data tagging or labeling, including for the protection of data provided by the Government from unauthorized use during the algorithm training process and the ongoing control by the Government of such data during such process. ####

(4)Mapping of the acquisition lifecycle for the programs described in paragraph

(1)to align budgeting milestones with critical design or decision points in the budgeting and execution processes of the Department of Defense. ####

(5)A framework for estimating the costs described in paragraph

(2)and ensuring the costs associated with the data required to train, maintain, or improve artificial intelligence models or systems are appropriately incorporated into lifecycle sustainment estimates for future programs containing artificial intelligence components or subcomponents. ###

(c)Implementation The Secretary of Defense shall begin implementing the plan required by subsection

(a)not later than 90 days after the date on which development of the plan required by subsection

(a)is completed. ###

(d)Briefings Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and not less frequently than once annually thereafter until 2027, the Secretary shall provide the congressional defense committees a briefing on the implementation of the plan developed pursuant to subsection (a).