[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 115 (Thursday, July 11, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S4648]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 2293. Mr. SCHUMER (for himself and Mr. Heinrich) submitted an 
amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4638, to 
authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2025 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. __. HIGH-PERFORMANCE COMPUTING AND ARTIFICIAL 
                   INTELLIGENCE CAPABILITIES.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall establish a 
     high-performance computing program across the Department of 
     Defense.
       (b) Construction of Supercomputers.--
       (1) In general.--In carrying out subsection (a), the 
     Secretary shall construct supercomputers for development and 
     deployment of military applications of high-performance 
     computing and artificial intelligence that are located on-
     premises at Department of Defense installations.
       (2) Availability.--The Secretary shall make available all 
     of the computing resources from the supercomputers 
     constructed under paragraph (1) to all employees of the 
     Department, with limited exceptions for specific elements of 
     the Armed Forces at the discretion of the Secretary.
       (3) High-end applications.--The Secretary shall ensure that 
     at least one of the supercomputers constructed pursuant to 
     paragraph (1) is a capability class system for high-end 
     applications requiring sustained use of a large number of 
     processors.
       (c) Research and Development.--
       (1) In general.--In carrying out subsection (a), the 
     Secretary shall perform research and development for--
       (A) software applications in military science and 
     engineering; and
       (B) artificial intelligence applications relevant to such 
     disciplines.
       (2) Focus.--Research and development under paragraph (1) 
     shall be focused on applications that do not have a readily 
     available commercial solution that can be procured by the 
     Department.
       (d) High-end Artificial Intelligence Systems.--
       (1) In general.--In carrying out subsection (a), the 
     Secretary shall develop high-end artificial intelligence 
     systems that have general-purpose military or intelligence 
     applications for language, image, audio, video, and other 
     data modalities.
       (2) Training of systems.--The Secretary shall ensure that 
     systems developed pursuant to paragraph (1) are trained using 
     datasets curated by the Department using general, openly or 
     commercially available sources of such data, or data owned by 
     the Department, depending on the appropriate use case.
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