1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Armed Forces Digital Advantage Act . 2. Digital engineering as a core competency of the Armed Forces (a) Findings Congress makes the following findings: (1) The National Defense Strategy states that the Department of Defense will need to emphasize new skills and complement our current workforce with information experts, data scientists, computer programmers, and basic science researchers and engineers—to use information, not simply manage it. The Department will also continue to explore streamlined, non-traditional pathways to bring critical skills into service, expanding access to outside expertise . (2) The Department workforce is challenged in its ability to develop, use, update, and store digital information. (3) Transformational technologies, including Artificial Intelligence, 5G telecommunications services, and cloud computing, are presenting new opportunities and challenges for the Department. (4) Department modernization programs depend almost entirely on the integration of state-of-the-art software, data, and information technology, and will require a workforce that understands digital engineering. (5) The establishment of the Joint Artificial Intelligence Center (JAIC) in 2018 was an important step to accelerate the delivery of, and scale the Department-wide impact of, artificial intelligence–enabled capabilities, and a workforce experienced in computer sciences and digital engineering will be critical to the success of the Center and the Department. (6) The Defense Innovation Board stated that, in order to fulfill its mission in the future, the Department will need a human capital strategy that will ensure that DoD can grow and maintain adequate computer science capability and capacity for the wide range of software-centric requirements that are unmet today and will only continue to grow . (b) Policy (1) In general It shall be a policy of the Armed Forces to promote and maintain digital engineering as a core competency of the Armed Forces, which policy shall