[Congressional Record Volume 168, Number 158 (Thursday, September 29, 2022)]
[Senate]
[Page S5930]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 6412. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed to 
amendment SA 5499 submitted by Mr. Reed (for himself and Mr. Inhofe) 
and intended to be proposed to the bill H.R. 7900, to authorize 
appropriations for fiscal year 2023 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 appropriate place in title II, insert the following:

     SEC. ___. REVIEW OF ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE INVESTMENT.

       (a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of 
     the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall--
       (1) review the current investment into applications of 
     artificial intelligence to the platforms, processes, and 
     operations of the Department of Defense; and
       (2) categorize the types of artificial intelligence 
     investments by categories including but not limited to the 
     following:
       (A) Automation.
       (B) Machine learning.
       (C) Autonomy.
       (D) Robotics.
       (E) Deep learning and neural network.
       (F) Natural language processing.
       (b) Report to Congress.--Not later than 120 days after the 
     completion of the review and categorization required by 
     subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the 
     congressional defense committees a report on--
       (1) the findings of the Secretary with respect to the 
     review and any action taken or proposed to be taken by the 
     Secretary to address such findings; and
       (2) an evaluation of how the findings of the Secretary 
     align with stated strategies of the Department of Defense 
     with regard to artificial intelligence and performance 
     objectives established in section 226 of the National Defense 
     Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2022 (Public Law 117-81; 10 
     U.S.C. 4001 note).
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