NTIA Reauthorization Act of 2023, Sec. 203 ("Spectrum management improvements")

• Authority: United States Congress
• Parent authority: Federal government
• Jurisdiction: United States
• Collections: U.S. federal laws
• Most recent activity: Defunct
• Most recent activity date: 2025-01-03

Risk subdomain coverage

All other risk subdomains had no coverage in this document.

Risk Coverage Summary

This document has minimal risk domain coverage, focusing primarily on technical spectrum management and communications technology development. It does not substantively address AI risks, harms, or safety concerns. The only potential connection is through brief mentions of AI systems for spectrum management (7.2, 7.3), but these are technical capabilities rather than risk assessments.

Sector coverage

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

• Information
• Public Administration (excl. National Security)

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

• Scientific Research & Development Services

All other sectors had no coverage in this document.

Sectors Summary

This document primarily governs the Information sector (telecommunications and data processing) and Public Administration excluding National Security (federal spectrum management). It also has implications for Scientific Research and Development Services through workforce development and prototyping requirements.

Legislative Status

Hard Law

Legislative Status Summary

This is a binding federal statute enacted by the United States Congress with mandatory obligations on the Under Secretary of NTIA, using mandatory language throughout.

Actors

Proposer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: This is a section of the NTIA Reauthorization Act of 2023, which is federal legislation proposed and enacted by the United States Congress.

Target

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor, AI_Developer, AI_Infrastructure_Provider
• Summary: The document primarily targets the Under Secretary of NTIA with mandatory obligations to develop and support AI systems and spectrum management technologies. It also applies to Federal entities with spectrum assignments and institutions involved in workforce development for advanced communications technologies.

Enforcer

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: The Under Secretary of NTIA is the primary enforcer responsible for implementing the statutory requirements. Congressional oversight and standard federal administrative law mechanisms provide enforcement authority.

Monitor

• Entity Types: AI_Governance_Actor
• Summary: While not explicitly stated, monitoring would occur through standard congressional oversight of executive agencies and NTIA's internal monitoring of its own implementation activities.

AI Lifecycle Stages

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

• Plan and Design
• Build and Use Model
• Deploy
• Operate and Monitor

AI Lifecycle Summary

The document primarily covers the Plan and Design stage through requirements to develop common models and methodologies, and the Build and Use Model stage through prototyping AI systems for spectrum management. It also addresses Deploy and Operate and Monitor stages through implementation and facilitation requirements.

Technical Scope

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

• AI Models
• AI Systems
• Task-specific AI

Technical Scope Summary

The document explicitly mentions AI systems multiple times in the context of spectrum management and advanced communications technologies. It does not mention AI models separately, nor does it reference frontier AI, general purpose AI, foundation models, generative AI, predictive AI, open-weight models, or compute thresholds.