Title: ADAPT Act
Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security

Summary:
Advancing Development of AI Processes and Talent Act or the ADAPT Act
This bill modifies the Department of Defense (DOD) public-private talent exchange program under which DOD and private sector employees exchange duties. It requires that an agreement under such program must specify that DOD employees may not improperly use information that relates to a DOD acquisition or procurement for the benefit or advantage of the private-sector organization.
DOD must ensure that the authority for operating a public-private talent exchange program is used to exchange personnel working on artificial intelligence applications.
DOD must brief the congressional armed services committees on efforts to expand existing DOD public-private exchange programs and to ensure that such programs seek opportunities for exchanges with private sector entities working on artificial intelligence applications.

[Congressional Bills 116th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 8183 Introduced in House (IH)]

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116th CONGRESS
  2d Session
                                H. R. 8183

To amend title 10, United States Code, to enhance public-private talent 
            exchange programs in the Department of Defense.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 8, 2020

Mr. Brown of Maryland introduced the following bill; which was referred 
                   to the Committee on Armed Services

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                                 A BILL


 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to enhance public-private talent 
            exchange programs in the Department of Defense.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

    This Act may be cited as the ``Advancing Development of AI 
Processes and Talent Act'' or the ``ADAPT Act''.

SEC. 2. ENHANCEMENT OF PUBLIC-PRIVATE TALENT EXCHANGE PROGRAMS IN THE 
              DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE.

    (a) Public-Private Talent Exchange.--Section 1599g of title 10, 
United States Code is amended--
            (1) in subsection (b)(1), by amending subparagraph (C) to 
        read as follows:
                    ``(C) shall contain language ensuring that such 
                employee of the Department does not improperly use 
                information that such employee knows relates to a 
                Department acquisition, or procurement for the benefit 
                or advantage of the private-sector organization.''; and
            (2) in subsection (f)--
                    (A) in paragraph (2)--
                            (i) by striking ``is deemed to be an 
                        employee of the Department of Defense for the 
                        purposes of'' and inserting ``is subject to'';
                            (ii) by striking subparagraph (D); and
                            (iii) by redesignating subparagraphs (E) 
                        and (F) as subparagraphs (D) and (E), 
                        respectively;
                    (B) by striking paragraph (4);
                    (C) by redesignating paragraph (5) as paragraph 
                (4); and
                    (D) by adding at the end the following new 
                paragraph:
            ``(5) shall be required to file a Public Financial 
        Disclosure Report (OGE Form 278) and the Public Financial 
        Disclosure Report for a such a person and a description of any 
        waivers provided to such person shall be made available on a 
        publicly accessible website of the Department of Defense.''.
    (b) Application of Exchange Authority to Artificial Intelligence.--
Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the 
Secretary of Defense shall take steps to ensure that the authority for 
the Department of Defense to operate a public-private talent exchange 
program pursuant to section 1599g of title 10, United States Code, is 
used to exchange personnel with private sector entities working on 
artificial intelligence applications. Such application of the authority 
of section 1599g shall be in addition to, not in lieu of, any other 
application of such authority by the Department of Defense.
    (c) Goals for Program Participation.--In carrying out the 
requirement of subsection (b), the Secretary shall seek to achieve the 
following objectives:
            (1) In the Secretary of Defense Executive Fellows program, 
        the nomination of an additional five uniformed service members 
        and three government civilians by each service and by the 
        Office of the Secretary of Defense, for sponsorship by private 
        sector entities working on artificial intelligence 
        applications.
            (2) For the public-private talent exchange program of the 
        Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment--
                    (A) an additional 10 government employees to work 
                with private sector entities working on artificial 
                intelligence applications; and
                    (B) an additional 10 employees of private sector 
                entities working on artificial intelligence 
                applications to work in the Department.
            (3) The establishment of the following new public-private 
        talent exchange programs in the Office of the Secretary of 
        Defense, comparable to the program referred to in paragraph 
        (2)--
                    (A) in the office of the Undersecretary of Defense 
                for Research and Engineering, a program with 20 
                participants, focused on exchanges with private sector 
                entities working on artificial intelligence 
                applications; and
                    (B) in the office of the Chief Information Officer 
                of the Department of Defense, a program with 20 
                participants, focused on exchanges with private sector 
                entities working on artificial intelligence 
                applications.
            (4) In the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps, the establishment 
        of new public-private exchange programs, comparable to the Air 
        Force Education with Industry Program, each with 20 program 
        participants, focused on private sector entities working on 
        artificial intelligence applications.
    (d) Treatment of Program Participants.--
            (1) The Army, Navy, and Marine Corps shall take steps to 
        ensure that participation by a service member in a program 
        described in subsection (c)(4) is treated, for purposes of 
        promotion boards and subsequent assignments, as equivalent to 
        attending resident professional military education.
            (2) The Secretary of Defense shall establish a public-
        private exchange program billet office to temporarily hold 
        billets for civilian employees who participate in programs 
        described in subsection (b), to ensure that participating 
        Department of Defense offices are able to retain their staffing 
        levels during the period of participation.
    (e) Briefing on Expansion of Existing Exchange Programs.--Not later 
than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually 
thereafter, the Secretary of Defense shall provide to the Committees on 
Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a 
briefing on the efforts undertaken to expand existing public-private 
exchange programs of the Department of Defense and to ensure that such 
programs seek opportunities for exchanges with private sector entities 
working on artificial intelligence applications, in accordance with the 
requirements of this section.
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