Senate Intelligence members Cornyn, Warner herald high-tech acquisition add-on to NDAA

The annual defense policy package cleared last week by the Senate includes legislation to streamline the intelligence community’s procurement of artificial intelligence and other advanced technology, with a new program to move products from R&D to the production stage that’s intended to bolster participation by smaller “nontraditional” contractors.

Sponsored by Senate Intelligence members John Cornyn (R-TX), Mark Warner (D-VA) -- the committee’s senior Democrat -- James Lankford (R-OK) and Mark Kelly (D-AZ), the Intelligence Community Technology Bridge Act aims...