FY2025 NDAA angles to enhance DOD’s AI and quantum sciences capabilities

The FY2025 National Defense Authorization Act again stipulates more AI and quantum information sciences programming for a variety of U.S. military operations.

Both artificial intelligence and quantum information sciences feature in the newly-released 2025 National Defense Authorization Act, with the bill authorizing $143.8 billion in broad science and technology research and development.

Released on Saturday by the House Armed Services Committee, the FY25 NDAA prioritizes leveraging emerging technologies for Defense operations, particularly for cybersecurity purposes. The legislation would, for example, establish a working group within the Joint Force Headquarters-Department of Defense Information Network under U.S. Cyber Command to develop and coordinate AI initiatives with ally nations. 

It also stipulates the establishment of a Statement of Policy regarding the use of AI in nuclear weaponry systems, requiring positive human action in executing decisions by the president to use such weapons, a policy both President Joe Biden and People ...