Authorization for artificial intelligence, including agentic artificial intelligence, to obtain audits with unqualified opinion of fiscal year 2028 financial statements of the Department of Defense

(a) Sense of Congress It is the sense of Congress that the Department of Defense should, to the maximum extent practicable, utilize technology and software to automate its efforts to prepare and audit its financial statements and minimize the use of additional contractor personnel for this function. (b) Authorization of appropriations In addition to amounts otherwise available, there is authorized to be appropriated for the Department of Defense the following sums: (1) $150,000,000 for the deployment of automation and artificial intelligence to accelerate the audits of the financial statement of the Department. (2) $150,000,000 for business systems replacements to accelerate and improve the accuracy of the financial statements of the Department of Defense pursuant to chapter 9A and section 2222 of title 10, United States Code. (c) Offset required The Secretary of Defense shall terminate for convenience existing contracts for contractor support for consulting services regarding the audit and preparation of financial statements in amounts equal to amounts appropriated pursuant to subsection (b).