; (13) issue guidance and directives governing how the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer of the Department shall exercise authority to access, control, and maintain, on behalf of the Secretary, data collected, acquired, accessed, or used by components of the Department consistent with section 1513 of the James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 ( Public Law 117–263 ; 10 U.S.C. 4001 note); and (14) clarify guidance on the instances for, and the role of human intervention and oversight in, the exercise of artificial intelligence algorithms for use in the generation of offensive or lethal courses of action for tactical operations. (b) Ethical and responsible artificial intelligence (1) Process The Secretary of Defense, acting through the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer, shall develop and implement a process— (A) to assess whether a given artificial intelligence technology used by the Department of Defense is in compliance with a test, evaluation, verification, and validation framework that— (i) operationalizes responsible artificial intelligence principles; and (ii) is validated and selected by the Chief Digital and Artificial Intelligence Officer for purposes of this subsection; (B) to report and remediate any artificial intelligence technology that is determined not to be in compliance with the framework selected pursuant to subparagraph (A); and (C) in a case in which efforts to remediate such technology have been unsuccessful, to discontinue the use of the technology until effective remediation is achievable. (2) Additional requirements In developing and implementing the process under paragraph (1), the Secretary of Defense shall— (A) develop clear criteria against which the compliance of an artificial intelligence technology with the framework selected pursuant to subparagraph (A) of such paragraph may be assessed under such subparagraph, taking into consideration— (i) similar criteria previously developed by the Secretary