Sponsor
Elissa Slotkin
Senator · D-MI
Senator · D-MI
The bill improves DoD visibility and security of AI supply chains and drives industry transparency, but imposes compliance burdens that may exclude smaller vendors, raise IP exposure risks, and create administrative costs for the DoD.
DoD staff and military personnel will be able to run faster, more accurate vulnerability and risk assessments because contractors must provide machine-readable AI bills of materials and the DoD must inventory models, dependencies, access histories, and security controls.
Government contractors and the procurement ecosystem gain clarity: no DoD award or renewal without an AI FBOM, which creates a clear procurement rule that will push industry-wide adoption of SBOM/FBOM best practices and greater transparency.
Contractors and DoD personnel benefit from stronger integrity protections because the bill requires secure storage guidance (access controls, signing, hashing, centralized repositories) for AI FBOMs, reducing the risk of tampering or unauthorized access to supply-chain data.
Government contractors—particularly smaller vendors and startups—will face added compliance costs and operational burdens to create and maintain detailed, machine-readable AI FBOMs and meet rapid update timelines, which could exclude some firms from DoD procurement and reduce competition and innovation.
Contractors may need to disclose sensitive proprietary or national-security information to more personnel, increasing the risk of IP leakage or exposure of classified capabilities despite the mandated storage protections.
The DoD will incur administrative and implementation costs to set up inventories, policies, and reporting systems and may need to divert program resources during the 180-day and one-year implementation timelines.
Based on analysis of 1 section of legislative text.
Requires contractors to provide and maintain a machine-readable AI functional bill of materials before DoD contract awards and requires DoD to inventory and document its AI models and dependencies.
Official title: Provide for the delivery of artificial intelligence functional bills of materials, and for other purposes.
Introduced August 6, 2026 by Elissa Slotkin · Last progress August 6, 2026
Requires the Department of Defense to stop awarding, renewing, or extending contracts that use artificial intelligence unless contractors provide and maintain a machine-readable "artificial intelligence functional bill of materials" (AI FBOM). The AI FBOM must list software, data, and hardware components and be submitted to the DoD Chief Digital and AI Officer before contract award and updated within 48 hours on request. Directs DoD to revise the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to implement the requirement and to build detailed inventories and documentation of all DoD AI models (including foundation, fine-tuned, and internally trained models), their dependencies, provenance/lineage, security posture, governance, and access histories to support risk assessment and vulnerability response.