Defense would guide removal of certain companies’ AI

The Secretary of Defense would issue department-wide guidance for identifying covered artificial intelligence companies and for excluding and removing their artificial intelligence from Defense systems and devices. The guidance would cover Department of Defense systems and devices, covered artificial intelligence companies, and artificial intelligence developed by those companies. The guidance would need to include processes for both exclusion and removal. The supplied text does not define which companies are covered or show the full related prohibition. The Secretary of Defense would issue the guidance no later than 30 days after the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2027 is enacted. A separate timing phrase would apply on and after a date 90 days after another date, but the supplied excerpt does not identify that other date.