“A bill to establish standards and guidelines to make open Government data assets artificial intelligence-ready, and for other purposes.”
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This section directs the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in consultation with specified officials, to develop standards and guidelines to assist federal agencies in making open government data assets (i.e., public data released by federal agencies, as defined in 44 U.S.C. 3502) artificial intelligence-ready, as defined in the National Artificial Intelligence Initiative Act of 2020 (15 U.S.C. 9401). The standards and guidelines must (1) be adaptable baselines for agency missions; (2) recommend improvements to data availability and utility for AI development (including model training, data quality and stewardship, metadata, documentation, and intellectual property management when combining federal and proprietary data), methods to identify additional agency data assets for AI use, and measurements of agency effectiveness; and (3) require data assets, to the greatest extent practicable, to meet AI developer needs (determined via public input), be downloadable via public websites, web-scraping, or other methods, accurate as of publication, human-readable, in open and machine-readable formats with decoding tools, and secure with privacy protections. The Director must publish proposed standards in the Federal Register with at least 60 days for public comment (considering all input), issue final standards within one year of enactment, submit them to the President via the Office of Science and Technology Policy for requirements issuance under specified law, and review and potentially revise them every two years thereafter using the same process (publishing revisions or a notice within 60 days of review completion).
This section directs the President, acting through the Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) and in consultation with the Director of the Office of Management and Budget, to require each federal agency head—upon receipt of standards and guidelines from the Director of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) pursuant to section 37(e) of the NIST Act—to adopt and adhere to those standards for making open government data assets artificial intelligence-ready. Agencies must further ensure that any adaptations remain interoperable across federal data systems to support interagency collaboration and that major information technology and high-performance computing acquisitions explicitly account for the standards.
This section directs the Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere, after adopting standards and guidelines under section 701 of the National Science and Technology Policy, Organization, and Priorities Act of 1976 (as added by section 3 of this bill), to ensure National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) data assets support integration of artificial intelligence and machine learning into NOAA's operational forecasting activities—specifically for (1) model analyses, forecasts, and reanalyses; (2) in-situ and conventional observations; (3) satellite datasets; and (4) environmental observations critical for forecasting. The section further requires the Under Secretary to provide annual briefings on implementation progress to the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation and the House Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, beginning one year after adoption of the standards and guidelines and continuing for five years.