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S 2604

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2025 Regular Session Introduced by Joe Addabbo

Create a temporary DoD AGI Steering Committee to assess AGI trajectories, risks, and military uses, and deliver an unclassified report with adoption strategy by 2027.

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Bill Summary · S 2604

Summary — S.2604 (Introduced July 31, 2025)

Title: To require the Secretary of Defense to establish the Artificial General Intelligence Steering Committee, and for other purposes.

Main purpose

Create within the Department of Defense (DoD) a temporary, high-level Steering Committee to analyze the trajectory, risks, military applications, and adoption strategy for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI), and to provide Congress and the public an unclassified report of findings and recommendations.

Key provisions

  • Establishment: Secretary of Defense must establish the “Artificial General Intelligence Steering Committee” no later than April 1, 2026.
  • Membership and leadership:
    • Co-chaired by the Deputy Secretary of Defense and the Vice Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
    • Core members include senior DoD civilian and uniformed leaders (Deputy Secretary, Vice Chairman JCS, vice chiefs of service branches and National Guard Bureau, several Under Secretaries including Acquisition & Sustainment, Research & Engineering, Intelligence & Security, Comptroller/CFO), the DoD Chief Digital and AI Officer, representatives from military departments, defense innovation centers, and other DoD organizations as the Secretary deems appropriate.
  • Responsibilities (selected):
    • Analyze current and emerging AI models and enabling technologies relevant to achieving AGI (e.g., frontier/world models, agentic algorithms, neuromorphic computing, cognitive-science-informed approaches, infrastructure, new microelectronics).
    • Assess adversaries’ technological, operational, and doctrinal trajectory toward AGI.
    • Analyze military applications and implications of AGI for the Department.
    • Develop a DoD adoption strategy covering ethical and policy guardrails, required resources (including novel funding mechanisms such as purchase commitments, financing arrangements, loans or loan guarantees), measurable goals, and public–private transition/adoption mechanisms.
    • Analyze adversarial uses of AGI and develop defensive/counter-AGI options.
  • Reporting:
    • Deputy Secretary must deliver a Steering Committee report to congressional defense committees by January 31, 2027.
    • Report must be submitted in unclassified form, with an optional classified annex; the unclassified portion must be publicly available.
  • Sunset: All authorities and requirements in the section terminate on December 31, 2027.
  • Definitions: AGI is defined as AI systems with potential to match or exceed human intelligence across most cognitive tasks; “innovation ecosystem” is defined in regional/private–public terms.

Who is affected

  • Primary: Department of Defense leadership, military services, defense acquisition and R&D organizations, and defense innovation partners (private sector, academia).
  • Secondary: Congress (receives report), private-sector AI developers engaged with DoD, and the public (through unclassified findings).

Timeline & procedural status

  • Establishment deadline: April 1, 2026.
  • Report due: January 31, 2027 (unclassified public portion required).
  • Sunset: December 31, 2027.
  • Introduced in the Senate July 31, 2025 (sponsor: Sen. Mike Rounds; cosponsor: Sen. Joseph P. Addabbo Jr.). Read twice and referred to the Senate Committee on Armed Services. Related measures: S.2296 (companion), S.9469 (prior session).

Note: Senate bill text in the legislative record includes unrelated state/local charter language (Somerville) and repeated referral entries dated Jan 21, 2025; these appear to be clerical or printing artifacts and are not part of the Steering Committee provisions summarized above.

Compiled from official sources — confirm details with the bill’s official record.

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