4. Department of Defense · Minor
End duplicative purchases of publicly available information data
Printed page 106 4. Department of Defense
“We must end the practice of multiple DIE organizations paying to acquire the same PAI data and invest more in machine learning (ML) and artificial intelligence (AI) to exploit open-source and classified intelligence data.”
What has happened
- Not started
No end to duplicative purchases of publicly available information by Defense Intelligence Enterprise organizations, and no enterprise license or consolidated buy on an allowlisted source. Searched: the FY2026 NDAA for "publicly available information" (0 occurrences) and "open-source intelligence" (0); the FY2026 defense appropriations act; the Federal Register full-text API since 2025-01-20 (the phrase appears only as boilerplate); the bills Corpus. Public Law 119-21 sec. 20006 funds artificial intelligence and data work but names no PAI consolidation.
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Research notes
The phrase “publicly available information” does not appear in the FY2026 NDAA at all, and its 1,894 Federal Register hits since 2025-01-20 are boilerplate in unrelated notices.
This item sits in the page 105–107 defense intelligence cluster (#182, #183, #184, #185, #186, #187, #188). One search covered the whole cluster: titles XV and LXV of the FY2026 NDAA, the full text of the Federal Register, and bills in Congress.
- Action
- eliminate
- Object
- duplicative publicly available information (PAI) data purchases
- ID
- 185