[Congressional Record Volume 169, Number 124 (Wednesday, July 19, 2023)]
[Senate]
[Page S3410]
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  SA 958. Mr. SULLIVAN (for himself and Mr. Young) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 2226, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2024 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 IX, insert the following:

     SEC. 9__. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE A JOINT PANEL TO REVIEW 
                   TECHNOLOGIES AND PROCESSES RELATED TO COMBINED 
                   JOINT ALL DOMAIN COMMAND AND CONTROL.

       (a) Establishment.--The Secretary of Defense shall convene 
     a joint panel consisting of senior representatives from the 
     Department of Defense, private sector companies, and industry 
     associations to identify, form, and promote technologies that 
     will rapidly advance the interoperability of military 
     platforms necessary for Combined Joint All Domain Command and 
     Control (CJADC2).
       (b) Technology Areas to Review.--The joint panel convened 
     pursuant to subsection (a) shall review technology areas 
     applicable to Combined Joint All Domain Command and Control, 
     including the following:
       (1) Enterprise level technical standards and protocols.
       (2) Artificial intelligence and machine learning 
     technologies.
       (3) Data requirements.
       (4) Advanced communications technologies.
       (5) Networking technologies.
       (6) Enterprise and edge cloud technologies.
       (7) Interoperability technologies.
       (8) The Third Generation Partnership Program (3GPP) and the 
     National Information Exchange Model (NIEM) of the mobile 
     telecommunications industry.
       (c) Meetings.--The joint panel convened pursuant to 
     subsection (a) shall meet as determined by the Secretary but 
     not less frequently than annually.
       (d) Publication.--The Secretary may publish recommendations 
     of the joint panel to promote interoperability of military 
     platforms and the development and deployment of Combined 
     Joint All Domain Command and Control enabling capabilities.
       (e) Inapplicability of FACA.--The meetings and discussion 
     of the joint panel shall not be subject to the requirements 
     of chapter 10 of title 5, United States Code.
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