(a) Assessment
The Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security shall assess the capabilities of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise that support the application of artificial intelligence, including generative artificial intelligence, to open-source intelligence. Such assessment shall—
identify efforts to develop, acquire, or use capabilities that support object-based or entity-centric analysis, including the use of knowledge graphs, retrieval-augmented generation, or similar techniques;
describe the maturity, scope, and users of such capabilities;
assess the extent of duplication, fragmentation, or overlap among such efforts;
identify gaps, limitations, and barriers to scaling such capabilities, including technical, policy, and data access challenges;
evaluate the extent to which commercial technologies are being used for such capabilities; and
identify opportunities to consolidate, scale, or designate a capability as a shared or enterprise solution.
(b) Pilot program
(1) Establishment
The Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security shall carry out a pilot program to develop, acquire, or use commercial and other technologies to develop and support an object-based generative artificial intelligence analytic capability for open-source intelligence activities throughout the Defense Intelligence Enterprise. The Under Secretary shall design such pilot program to improve the discovery, correlation, and analysis of high-interest objects and the associated relationships of such objects, including weapon systems and related entities.
(2) Capability described
The object-based generative artificial intelligence analytic capability described in paragraph (1) shall—
make use of object-based data models, knowledge graphs, and retrieval-augmented generation techniques;
enable discovery, contextualization, and analysis of high-interest objects, including weapon systems and associated entities;
integrate publicly available information and commercially available information;
produce explainable, evidence-based analytic outputs; and
align with data, analytic, and security standards of the Department of Defense and the intelligence community.
(3) Pilot program lead
(A) Designation
The Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security shall designate the head of a component of the Department of Defense to serve as the lead for the pilot program required by paragraph (1). In making that designation, the Under Secretary shall take into consideration analytic capabilities, technical expertise, and the ability to scale throughout the Defense Intelligence Enterprise.
(B) Duties
The head of the component of the Department of Defense designated under subparagraph (A) shall—
implement and operate the capability described in paragraph (1); and
support Defense Intelligence Enterprise users.
(c) Transition and integration
The Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security, in consultation with the Director of National Intelligence, shall evaluate the results of the pilot program required by subsection (b) to determine if—
the capability developed by such pilot program should become an enduring program of the Defense Intelligence Enterprise; and
the Under Secretary should recommend to the Director of National Intelligence that such capability be designated as a service of common concern for the intelligence community.
(d) Briefing
Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Under Secretary of Defense for Intelligence and Security shall provide to the congressional intelligence committees and the Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives and the Senate a briefing on—
the findings of the assessment required by subsection (a); and
the plan for implementation fo the pilot program required by subsection (b).
(e) Defense Intelligence Enterprise defined
In this section, the term Defense Intelligence Enterprise has the meaning given that term in section 426(b)(4) of title 10, United States Code.