Requires the Secretary of Defense to evaluate and include in the Professional Military Education (PME) curriculum special focus areas related to innovation, with AI being one of them.
Analysis summaries, actor details, and coverage mappings were LLM-classified and may contain errors.
This is a binding statutory provision enacted by the U.S. Congress as part of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, with mandatory reporting requirements and specific deadlines imposed on the Secretary of Defense.
This document has minimal risk domain coverage, with only subdomain 7.2 (Dangerous Capabilities) receiving a score of 2. The document mentions AI as a special focus area in PME curriculum but does not substantively address AI risks, harms, or governance failures. It is primarily an educational policy directive rather than an AI risk governance document.
This document primarily governs the National Security sector by mandating evaluation and improvement of Professional Military Education for Armed Forces officers. It also has minimal coverage of Educational Services as it addresses PME institutions and their curricula.
The document does not directly govern AI system development or deployment. It mandates evaluation of Professional Military Education curriculum to include AI as a special focus area. This relates primarily to the Plan and Design stage for educational programs, not AI systems themselves.
The document mentions artificial intelligence only as a curriculum topic for military education, not as a technical system being governed. There are no references to AI models, systems, frontier AI, GPAI, foundation models, generative AI, or compute thresholds.
United States Congress
This is Section 557 of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023, enacted by the United States Congress as the legislative authority.
Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives
The Congressional Armed Services Committees receive the reports and briefings, providing oversight of compliance with the statutory requirements.
Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and House of Representatives; Secretary of Defense
The Congressional Armed Services Committees monitor implementation through required interim briefings every six months. The Secretary of Defense also monitors PME effectiveness through the mandated study and evaluation process.
Secretary of Defense; Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff; Secretaries of the military departments; institutions of PME; professional military education schools; senior level service schools; intermediate level service schools; joint intermediate level service school; Naval Postgraduate School; Air Force Institute of Technology
The document targets the Secretary of Defense who must conduct the study and submit reports, in coordination with military leadership. The study evaluates PME institutions and their curricula, including AI education requirements.
1 subdomain (1 Minimal)