[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 190 (Thursday, October 28, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Pages S7470-S7471]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3948. Mr. PORTMAN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed 
to amendment SA 3867 submitted by Mr. Reed and intended to be proposed 
to the bill H.R. 4350, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2022 
for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military 
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, 
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for 
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

     SEC. 576. MILITARY TRAINING ON EMERGING TECHNOLOGIES.

       (a) Integrating Digital Skill Sets and Computational 
     Thinking Into Military Junior Leader Education.--Not later 
     than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, 
     the Chief of Staff of the Army, the Chief of Naval 
     Operations, the Chief of Staff of the Air Force, and the 
     Commandant of the Marine Corps shall expand the curriculum 
     for military junior leader education to incorporate 
     appropriate training material related to problem definition 
     and curation, a conceptual understanding of the artificial 
     intelligence lifecycle, data collection and management, 
     probabilistic reasoning and data visualization, and data-
     informed decisionmaking. Whenever possible, the new training 
     and education should include the use of existing artificial 
     intelligence-enabled systems and tools.
       (b) Integration of Material on Emerging Technologies Into 
     Professional Military

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     Education.--Not later than one year after the date of the 
     enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in 
     consultation with the Joint Chiefs of Staff, shall ensure 
     that the curriculum for professional military education is 
     revised in each of the military services to incorporate 
     periodic courses on militarily significant emerging 
     technologies that increasingly build the knowledge base, 
     vocabulary, and skills necessary to intelligently analyze and 
     utilize emerging technologies in the tactical, operational, 
     and strategic levels of warfighting and warfighting support.
       (c) Emerging Technology-coded Billets Within the Department 
     of Defense.--
       (1) In general.--Not later than one year after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall 
     ensure that the military services--
       (A) code appropriate billets to be filled by emerging 
     technology-qualified officers; and
       (B) develop a process for officers to become qualified in 
     emerging technologies.
       (2) Appropriate positions.--Emerging technology-coded 
     positions may include, as appropriate--
       (A) positions responsible for assisting with acquisition of 
     emerging technologies;
       (B) positions responsible for helping integrate technology 
     into field units;
       (C) positions responsible for developing organizational and 
     operational concepts;
       (D) positions responsible for developing training and 
     education plans; and
       (E) leadership positions at the operational and tactical 
     levels within the military services.
       (3) Qualification process.--The process for qualifying 
     officers for emerging technology-coded billets shall be 
     modeled on a streamlined version of the joint qualification 
     process and may include credit for serving in emerging 
     technology focused fellowships, emerging technology focused 
     talent exchanges, emerging technology focused positions 
     within government, and educational courses focused on 
     emerging technologies.
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