Requires the Navy to demonstrate large and extra large unmanned underwater vehicles by June 2025 and conduct related assessments.
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This is a binding statutory provision from the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025, enacted by the United States Congress. It contains mandatory obligations using 'shall' language and is legally enforceable as federal law.
This document has minimal coverage of AI risk domains. It primarily addresses competitive dynamics (6.4) through its requirement for competitive demonstration of unmanned underwater vehicles. There is implicit coverage of AI system safety and capabilities (7.2, 7.3) through requirements for mission autonomy, navigation, and reliability testing. The document does not substantively address discrimination, privacy, misinformation, malicious actors, human-computer interaction, or most socioeconomic risks.
This document primarily governs the National Security sector through requirements for the U.S. Navy and Indo-Pacific Command to demonstrate unmanned underwater vehicle capabilities. It also has minimal coverage of Scientific Research and Development Services through the involvement of the Defense Innovation Unit, and Professional and Technical Services through the competitive demonstration involving commercial sources.
The document primarily covers the Verify and Validate, Deploy, and Operate and Monitor stages of the AI lifecycle. It focuses on competitive demonstration and evaluation of unmanned underwater vehicles with autonomous capabilities, including testing of mission autonomy planning, performance assessment, and operational requirements validation.
The document explicitly addresses AI systems through references to 'mission autonomy planning capability' and autonomous unmanned underwater vehicles. It does not mention AI models, frontier AI, general purpose AI, foundation models, generative AI, or compute thresholds. The focus is on task-specific autonomous systems for military applications.
United States Congress
This is Section 1032 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025, which is proposed and enacted by the United States Congress as the legislative authority.
congressional defense committees; United States Congress
The congressional defense committees serve as the enforcement body by receiving mandatory assessments and reports, providing oversight of compliance with the statutory requirements.
congressional defense committees; Secretary of the Navy; Commander of the United States Indo-Pacific Command
The congressional defense committees monitor implementation through required assessments. The Secretary of the Navy and Commander of Indo-Pacific Command also serve monitoring roles by evaluating the demonstration and submitting assessments of vehicle capabilities and requirements.
Secretary of the Navy; Commander of the United States Indo-Pacific Command; Director of the Defense Innovation Unit; commercial or foreign partner sources
The document targets the Secretary of the Navy who must carry out the demonstration, as well as commercial and foreign partner sources who may provide unmanned underwater vehicle capabilities. These entities are required to participate in the competitive demonstration and assessment process.