United States S 3175: Advancing American Artificial Intelligence Innovation Act of 2021

Bill Text

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117TH CONGRESS
1ST SESSION S. 3175
To authorize the Secretary of Defense to carry out a pilot program on
establishing data libraries for training artificial intelligence models, and
for other purposes.
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
NOVEMBER 4, 2021
Ms. ROSEN (for herself and Mr. PORTMAN) introduced the following bill;
which was read twice and referred to the Committee on Armed Services
A BILL
To authorize the Secretary of Defense to carry out a pilot
program on establishing data libraries for training artifi-
cial intelligence models, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Advancing American 4
Artificial Intelligence Innovation Act of 2021’’. 5
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SEC. 2. DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE PILOT PROGRAM ON 1
DATA LIBRARIES FOR TRAINING ARTIFICIAL 2
INTELLIGENCE MODELS. 3
(a) PILOT PROGRAM AUTHORIZED.—The Secretary 4
of Defense, acting through the Director of the Joint Artifi-5
cial Intelligence Center or such other official as the Sec-6
retary considers appropriate, may carry out a pilot pro-7
gram to assess the feasibility and advisability of estab-8
lishing data libraries for developing and enhancing artifi-9
cial intelligence capabilities to ensure that the Department 10
of Defense is able to procure optimal artificial intelligence 11
and machine learning software capabilities to meet De-12
partment requirements and technology development goals. 13
(b) AUTHORITIES.—In carrying out a pilot program 14
under subsection (a), the Secretary may— 15
(1) establish data libraries containing Depart-16
ment data sets relevant to the development of artifi-17
cial intelligence software and technology; and 18
(2) allow appropriate public and private sector 19
organizations to access such data libraries for the 20
purposes of developing artificial intelligence models 21
and other technical software solutions. 22
(c) ELEMENTS.—If the Secretary elects to carry out 23
the pilot program under subsection (a), the data libraries 24
established under the program— 25
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(1) may include unclassified data representative 1
of diverse types of information, representing Depart-2
ment missions, business processes, and activities; 3
(2) shall be categorized and annotated to sup-4
port development of a common evaluation framework 5
for artificial intelligence models and other technical 6
software solutions; 7
(3) shall be made available to such public and 8
private sector organizations as the Secretary con-9
siders appropriate to support rapid development of 10
software and artificial intelligence capabilities; 11
(4) shall include capabilities and tool sets to de-12
tect, evaluate, and correct errors in data annotation, 13
identify gaps in training data used in model develop-14
ment that would require additional data labeling, 15
and evaluate model performance across the lifecycle 16
of its use; and 17
(5) shall be developed to support such other 18
missions and activities as the Secretary considers 19
appropriate. 20
(d) BRIEFING.—Not later than 270 days after the 21
date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall pro-22
vide to the congressional defense committees a briefing on 23
implementing this section, including an identification of 24
the types of information that the Secretary determines are 25
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feasible and advisable to include in the data libraries 1
under subsection (b)(1). 2
(e) CONGRESSIONAL DEFENSE COMMITTEES DE-3
FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘congressional defense 4
committees’’ has the meaning given that term in section 5
101(a) of title 10, United States Code. 6
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