Congressional oversight

(a) Report Not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report on the program established under section 2(a). The report shall include— (1) a comprehensive, independent life-cycle cost estimate for the program, in accordance with the publication of the Government Accountability Office titled Cost Estimating and Assessment Guide: Best Practices for Developing and Managing Program Costs and dated March 2020 (GAO–20–195G); (2) a summary of the activities conducted pursuant to this Act; (3) an assessment of the performance and effectiveness of the program in meeting its operational goals; and (4) for each artificial intelligence agent that provides responses used in disability claims processing, the average degree of confidence that the agent has in the correctness of the responses it provides, as determined by— (A) identifying, for each such response, the degree of confidence (commonly referred to as the confidence score) associated with such response; and (B) calculating the arithmetic mean of all such confidence scores. (b) Briefings The Secretary shall provide quarterly briefings to the appropriate congressional committees on the program. The briefings shall include— (1) the cost savings achieved by automation under the program; (2) updates made to the policies established under the program; and (3) measurable progress on the customization of the technology platform. (c) Appropriate congressional committees defined In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the House of Representatives and the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs of the Senate.