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Cyber

Lawmakers Secure Several AI Commission Recommendations In HASC’s FY ‘22 NDAA

By Matthew Beinart

Tuesday, September 7th, 2021

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Lawmakers Secure Several AI Commission Recommendations In HASC’s FY ‘22 NDAA

Low angled view of the U.S. Capitol East Facade Front in Washington, DC.

A pair of lawmakers on the House Armed Services Committee secured nearly a dozen amendments in the panel’s version of the next defense policy bill intended to further the Pentagon’s artificial intelligence adoption, including assessing new contracting mechanisms and establishing readiness goals. Reps. Jim Langevin (D-R.I.), chair Cyber, Innovative Technologies, and Information Systems (CITI), and Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), head of the House Republican Conference, sponsored the provisions which were direct recommendations from the National Security Commission on AI (NSCAI). “To…

Space

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Space

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Congress

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