[Congressional Record Volume 170, Number 120 (Wednesday, July 24, 2024)]
[Senate]
[Page S5466]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  SA 3138. 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. __. ADVANCED COMPUTING INFRASTRUCTURE TO ENABLE ADVANCED 
                   ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE CAPABILITIES.

       (a) In General.--The Secretary of Defense shall establish 
     an advanced computing infrastructure program within the 
     Department of Defense.
       (b) Development and Expansion of High-performance Computing 
     Infrastructure.--
       (1) In general.--In carrying out subsection (a), the 
     Secretary shall expand upon the current infrastructure of the 
     Department for development and deployment of military 
     applications of high-performance computing and artificial 
     intelligence that are located on-premises at Department 
     installations or accessible via commercial classified cloud 
     providers.
       (2) Artificial intelligence applications.--(A) The 
     Secretary shall ensure that some of the infrastructure 
     capacity developed pursuant to paragraph (1) is dedicated to 
     providing access to modern artificial intelligence 
     accelerators, configured consistently with industry best 
     practices, for training, fine-tuning, modifying, and 
     deploying large artificial intelligence systems.
       (B) In carrying out subparagraph (A), the Secretary shall 
     ensure, to the extent practical, that new artificial 
     intelligence system development is not performed using 
     infrastructure capacity described in such subparagraph that 
     is duplicative of readily available commercial or open source 
     solutions.
       (c) High-performance Computing Roadmap.--
       (1) In general.--The Secretary shall develop a high-
     performance computing roadmap that describes the computing 
     infrastructure needed to research, test, develop, and 
     evaluate advanced artificial intelligence applications 
     projected over the period covered by the future-years defense 
     program.
       (2) Assessment.--The roadmap developed pursuant to 
     paragraph (1) shall assess anticipated artificial 
     intelligence applications, including the computing needs 
     associated with their development, and the evaluation, 
     milestones, and resourcing needs to maintain and expand the 
     computing infrastructure necessary for those computing needs.
       (d) Artificial Intelligence System Development.--
       (1) In general.--Using the infrastructure from the program 
     established under subsection (a), the Secretary shall develop 
     artificial intelligence systems that have general-purpose 
     military 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. Such 
     systems may use openly or commercially available artificial 
     intelligence systems, including those available via 
     classified cloud providers, as a base for additional 
     development such as fine-tuning.
       (e) Coordination and Duplication.--In establishing the 
     program required by subsection (a), the Secretary shall 
     consult with the Secretary of Energy to ensure no duplication 
     of activities carried out under this section with the 
     activities of research entities of the Department of Energy, 
     including the following:
       (1) The National Laboratories.
       (2) The Advanced Scientific Computing Research program.
       (3) The Advanced Simulation and Computing program.
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