resulting revisions to the classification framework 
under subsection (a). 
(f) IMPLEMENTATION.—Not later than 90 days after 
the establishment of the framework under subsection (a), 
the Under Secretary of Defense for Policy shall issue in-
structions to the military services to implement such 
framework by operationalizing the use of the framework 
in the planning and budgeting processes of individual pro-
gram offices. 
SEC. 3. PLAN FOR INTEGRATION OF AUTONOMOUS CAPA-
BILITIES INTO SYSTEMS OF THE DEPART-
MENT OF DEFENSE. 
(a) PLAN REQUIRED.—Not later than one year after 
the date on which Joint Autonomy Office is established 
pursuant to section 1, the Director of the Joint Autonomy 
Office shall develop and implement a plan and procedures 
to standardize the planning, resourcing, and integration 
efforts with respect to autonomous capabilities for current 
and future systems across the Department. 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The plan required under subsection 
(a) shall include the following: 
(1) A Department-wide assessment of the sta-
tus of efforts to resource and integrate autonomy 
software into current and future systems, includ-
ing— 
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(A) the identification of current and future 
systems across the Department which can be 
integrated with autonomy software to enable 
continuous operational capability of such sys-
tems in GPS- or communications-denied envi-
ronments, including those systems identified in 
the report required by section 246 of the Na-
tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 
Year 2022 (Public Law 117–81; 135 Stat. 
1622); and 
(B) an assessment of gaps in— 
(i) program funding related to the ac-
quisition of autonomy software; 
(ii) acquisition processes, including 
the planning, programming, budgeting, 
and execution process for acquiring and in-
tegrating autonomy-enabling capabilities 
across relevant programs of record; 
(iii) training capabilities; 
(iv) testing, evaluation, verification, 
and validation capabilities in all environ-
ments, including virtual and real world en-
vironments; and 
(v) efforts to test, resource, and scale 
commercially available technologies. 
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(2) A plan to address, to the maximum extent 
practicable, the gaps assessed in paragraph (1), in-
cluding— 
(A) updated procedures to plan for auton-
omy software costs at the onset of the acquisi-
tion life cycle; 
(B) plans to include in greater detail the 
projected autonomy software costs for applica-
ble programs of record within period covered by 
the Future Years Defense Program; and 
(C) plans to standardize the acquisition of 
autonomy software for programs of record 
across the military services including the use of 
the capability classification framework required 
in section 2 of this Act. 
(c) CONSULTATION.—The Director of the Joint Au-
tonomy Office shall develop the plan under subsection (a) 
in consultation with— 
(1) the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisi-
tion and Sustainment; 
(2) the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence 
Officer; 
(3) the Joint Chiefs of Staff; 
(4) the senior acquisition executive of each mili-
tary service; 
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(5) the commanders of the combatant com-
mands; and 
(6) such other organizations and elements of 
the Department of Defense as the Director deter-
mines appropriate. 
(d) REPORT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after 
the completion of the plan under subsection (a), the 
Director of the Joint Autonomy Office shall submit 
to the congressional defense committees a report 
that describes the specific elements of the plan. 
(2) FORM.—The report under paragraph (1) 
shall be submitted in unclassified form but may con-
tain a classified annex. 
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