[Congressional Record Volume 167, Number 192 (Tuesday, November 2, 2021)]
[Senate]
[Page S7645]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 4180. Ms. ROSEN (for herself and 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:

        At the end of subtitle B of title II, add the following 
     new section:

     SEC. ___. PILOT PROGRAM ON DATA LIBRARIES FOR TRAINING 
                   ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE MODELS.

       (a) Pilot Program Authorized.--The Secretary of Defense, 
     acting through the Director of the Joint Artificial 
     Intelligence Center or such other official as the Secretary 
     considers appropriate, may carry out a pilot program to 
     assess the feasibility and advisability of establishing data 
     libraries for developing and enhancing artificial 
     intelligence capabilities to ensure that the Department of 
     Defense is able to procure optimal artificial intelligence 
     and machine learning software capabilities to meet Department 
     requirements and technology development goals.
       (b) Authorities.--In carrying out a pilot program under 
     subsection (a), the Secretary may--
       (1) establish data libraries containing Department data 
     sets relevant to the development of artificial intelligence 
     software and technology; and
       (2) allow appropriate public and private sector 
     organizations to access such data libraries for the purposes 
     of developing artificial intelligence models and other 
     technical software solutions.
       (c) Elements.--If the Secretary elects to carry out the 
     pilot program under subsection (a), the data libraries 
     established under the program--
       (1) may include unclassified data representative of diverse 
     types of information, representing Department missions, 
     business processes, and activities; and
       (2) shall be categorized and annotated to support 
     development of a common evaluation framework for artificial 
     intelligence models and other technical software solutions;
       (3) shall be made available to such public and private 
     sector organizations as the Secretary considers appropriate 
     to support rapid development of software and artificial 
     intelligence capabilities;
       (4) shall include capabilities and tool sets to detect, 
     evaluate, and correct errors in data annotation, identify 
     gaps in training data used in model development that would 
     require additional data labeling, and evaluate model 
     performance across the lifecycle of its use; and
       (5) shall be developed to support such other missions and 
     activities as the Secretary considers appropriate.
       (d) Briefing.--Not later than 270 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall provide to the 
     congressional defense committees a briefing on implementing 
     this section, including an identification of the types of 
     information that the Secretary determines are feasible and 
     advisable to include in the data libraries under subsection 
     (b)(1).
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