Senate Bills Aim to Grow Federal Tech-Ready Workforce—and the Government’s Transparency About its AI Use Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee Ranking Member Sen. Rob Portman, R-Ohio, speaks during a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on unaccompanied minors at the southern border, Thursday, May 13, 2021, on Capitol Hill in Washington. Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. email Lawmakers moved to operationalize suggestions made by a Congressionally-mandated AI commission. Two new pieces of Senate legislation aim to accelerate the study, fielding and buying of artificial intelligence capabilities across some agencies and the military, ensure transparency in the government’s deployments of the evolving technology, and confront relevant expertise gaps among the federal workforce.