Servicemember Quality of Life Improvement and National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025, Section 1032 ("Competitive demonstration of large and extra large unmanned underwater vehicles")

• Authority: United States Congress
• Parent authority: Federal government
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: FY2025 NDAA;NDAA provisions
• Most recent activity: Enacted
• Most recent activity date: 2024-12-23

Risk subdomain coverage

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the risk subdomain are described.

• AI system security vulnerabilities
• Cyberattacks, weapon development or use
• Competitive dynamics
• AI possessing dangerous capabilities
• Lack of capability or robustness

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

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.

Sector coverage

Good coverage — Comprehensive governance measures or mitigations with clear procedures relating to the sector are explicitly described.

• National Security

Minimal coverage — Brief mention but no specific mitigations, recommendations or governance measures relating to the sector are described.

• Professional & Technical Services
• Scientific Research & Development Services

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

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.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

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.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: United States Congress
• Summary: 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.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor, AI_Developer
• Entities: Secretary of the Navy; Commander of the United States Indo-Pacific Command; Director of the Defense Innovation Unit; commercial or foreign partner sources
• Summary: 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.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: congressional defense committees; United States Congress
• Summary: The congressional defense committees serve as the enforcement body by receiving mandatory assessments and reports, providing oversight of compliance with the statutory requirements.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Entities: congressional defense committees; Secretary of the Navy; Commander of the United States Indo-Pacific Command
• Summary: 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.

AI Lifecycle Stages

Lifecycle stages covered by the documents, as defined in the OECD Framework for the Classification of AI Systems

• Verify and Validate
• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

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.

Technical Scope

Terms relating to technical scope that are mentioned or implicitly referenced in the document

• AI Systems
• Task-specific AI

Technical Scope Summary

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.