The invoice establishes a Chief Digital and Synthetic Intelligence Officer Governing Council for the navy to offer coverage oversight to make sure the accountable, coordinated, and moral employment of knowledge and synthetic intelligence capabilities throughout Division of Protection (DOD) operations and missions. The Division’s Chief Digital and Synthetic Intelligence Officer (CDAO) will head the Council.
Among the many many duties assigned to the CDAO underneath the invoice are cybersecurity-related duties, together with:
- Handle AI digital belongings by offering “the digital infrastructure and procurement autos essential to handle information belongings and information analytics capabilities at scale to allow an understanding of international key terrain and relational frameworks in our on-line world to assist the planning of cyber operations, the era of indications and warnings concerning navy operations and capabilities, and the calibration of actions and reactions in strategic competitors.”
- Develop an AI bug bounty program for foundational synthetic intelligence fashions built-in into the missions and operations of the DOD.
- Implement and oversee an academic program on information and synthetic intelligence to familiarize personnel department-wide with the functions of synthetic intelligence.
The invoice additionally requires the Secretary of Protection to develop a strategic plan for the event, use, and cybersecurity of generative synthetic intelligence, together with a coverage governing using, and the protection towards, adversarial use of, generative synthetic intelligence. It additional requires the Protection Secretary to finish a research “to evaluate the performance of synthetic intelligence-enabled navy functions, analysis and growth wants associated to such functions, and vulnerabilities to the privateness, security, and accuracy of such functions.”
By way of the State Division, the invoice establishes an workplace of a Chief Synthetic Intelligence Officer, who will, amongst different issues, act because the principal advisor to the Secretary of State on the moral use of AI and superior analytics in conducting data-informed diplomacy. It additionally establishes a program, the Digital Connectivity and Cybersecurity Partnership, and promotes greatest practices and customary requirements for a nationwide strategy to cybersecurity.
The invoice additional establishes within the State Division a our on-line world, digital connectivity, and associated applied sciences (CDT) fund to advance a safe and secure our on-line world by, amongst different issues, serving to nations put together for, defend towards, and reply to malicious cyber actions and undertake nationwide methods to boost cybersecurity.
Different noteworthy NDAA cybersecurity provisions
Of the numerous different provisions within the NDAA that point out cybersecurity, the next are price noting:
