A bipartite bill to accelerate the use of artificial intelligence in the border application adopted the house on Monday, kicking Emerging law of innovative border technologies in the Senate for examination.
The legislation of representatives Lou Correa, D-Calif., And Morgan Luttrell, R-Texas, also adopted the house last year, but also Lowned on the calendar of the upper room in December.
Correa, a classification member of the House’s internal security subcommittee on security and border application, and Lutrell both published declarations asking the Senate the bill. Legislation – which would oblige the Secretary of Internal Security to submit a complete plan to the Congress detailing how the agency could take advantage of AI, automatic learning and nanotechnology to patrol the border more effectively – seems to line up on Border security objectives.
“Borders safety means keeping drugs and other negative elements far from our communities, as well as the use of advanced technologies that are already available to maintain trade and trade and give our workers the tools they need to protect us,” Correa said in a press release. “With this bipartite effort, the congress will better understand how our officers can use new technologies to stop the fentanyl trade.”
The bill also takes into account the elements of Ai roadmap dhs released Last year, plans specifically for the test of technologies which cause advantages to advance internal security without compromising the privacy of Americans or civil freedoms.
“Securing our border requires more than workforce – it requires advanced technology that gives our agents the tools they need to keep a head start on the threats we face,” Luttrell said in a press release. “This bill adopting the Chamber with a strong bipartisan support shows that the guarantee of our border is not a partisan problem, it is a priority for national security.”
In a Interview with FEDSCOOP last monthCorrea said that the legislation would cross the “bureaucracy of purchase acquisition” to ensure that the DHS has access to the best most profitable technology to guarantee the border as quickly as possible.
Luttrell previously declared to Fedscoop that the bill to advance technological adoption within the DHS comes at a time when “cartels and all bad players from around the world are really moving in technological space, or in cyber metachee”. These groups “use these capacities to defeat us”.
“It is an unconventional war,” he added. “It’s really guerrilla tactics on the border. (DHS needs) each asset they may have. »»