[Congressional Bills 118th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[S. 3504 Introduced in Senate (IS)]
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118th CONGRESS
1st Session
S. 3504
To establish a course of education and pilot program on authentication
of digital content provenance for certain Department of Defense media
content, and for other purposes.
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IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
December 13, 2023
Mr. Peters introduced the following bill; which was read twice and
referred to the Committee on Armed Services
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A BILL
To establish a course of education and pilot program on authentication
of digital content provenance for certain Department of Defense media
content, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the ``Digital Defense Content Provenance
Act of 2023''.
SEC. 2. COURSE OF EDUCATION AND PILOT PROGRAM ON AUTHENTICATION OF
DIGITAL CONTENT PROVENANCE FOR CERTAIN DEPARTMENT OF
DEFENSE MEDIA CONTENT.
(a) Course of Education.--
(1) In general.--Not later than one year after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, acting
through the Director of the Defense Media Activity, shall
establish a course of education at the Defense Information
School, the purpose of which shall be to provide instruction on
the practical concepts and skills needed by public affairs,
audiovisual, visual information, and records management
specialists to understand the following:
(A) Digital content provenance for applicable
Department media content.
(B) The challenges posed to missions and operations
of the Department by a digital content forgery.
(C) How industry open technical standards may be
used to authenticate the digital content provenance of
applicable Department media content.
(2) Matters.--The course of education under paragraph (1)
shall cover the following matters:
(A) The challenges to missions and operations of
the Department posed by a digital content forgery.
(B) The development of industry open technical
standards for authenticating the digital content
provenance of applicable Department media content.
(C) Hands-on training on techniques to record
secure and authenticated digital content to document
and communicate relevant themes and messages of the
Department.
(D) Training on--
(i) the use of industry open technical
standards for authenticating digital content
provenance in the completion of post-production
tasks; and
(ii) the transmission of applicable
Department media content in both operational
and nonoperational environments.
(E) Such other matters as the Director of the
Defense Media Activity considers appropriate.
(3) Report.--Not later than one year after the date of the
establishment of the course of education under paragraph (1),
the Director of the Defense Media Activity shall submit to the
Committees on Armed Services of the House of Representatives
and the Senate a report on the following:
(A) The status of the development of a curriculum
for such course of education.
(B) The implementation plan of the Director for
such course of education, including the following:
(i) The expertise and qualifications of the
personnel of the Department responsible for
teaching such course of education.
(ii) The list of sources consulted or
otherwise used to develop the curriculum for
such course of education.
(iii) A description of the industry open
technical standards referred to in paragraph
(1)(C).
(iv) The status of the implementation of
such course of education.
(C) The resources available to the Director to
carry out this subsection and whether the Director
requires any additional resources to carry out this
subsection.
(b) Pilot Program on Implementing Digital Content Provenance
Standards.--
(1) Pilot program.--Not later than one year after the date
of the enactment of this Act, the Director of the Defense Media
Activity shall carry out a pilot program to assess the
feasibility and advisability of implementing industry open
technical standards for digital content provenance for official
photographs and videos of the Department of Defense publicly
released by the Defense Visual Information Distribution
Service, or any successor operation, and other distribution
platforms, systems, and services used by the Department of
Defense (in this subsection referred to as the ``pilot
program'').
(2) Elements.--In carrying out the pilot program, the
Director of the Defense Media Activity shall--
(A) establish a process for using industry open
technical standards to verify the digital content
provenance of applicable Department media content;
(B) apply technology solutions that comport with
industry open technical standard for digital content
provenance to photographs and videos of the Department
publicly released as described in paragraph (1) after
the date of the enactment of this Act;
(C) assess the feasibility and advisability of
applying an industry open technical standard for
digital content provenance to historical visual
information records of the Department stored at the
Defense Visual Information Records Center; and
(D) develop and apply measure of effectiveness for
the implementation of the pilot program.
(3) Consultation.--In carrying out the pilot program, the
Director of the Defense Media Activity may consult with
federally funded research and development centers, entities
within private industry, institutions of higher education, and
such other entities as the Director considers appropriate.
(4) Termination.--The pilot program shall terminate on
January 1, 2027.
(5) Report.--
(A) In general.--Not later than January 1, 2026,
the Director of the Defense Media Activity shall submit
to the Committees on Armed Services of the House of
Representatives and the Senate a report on the pilot
program.
(B) Elements.--The report under subparagraph (A)
shall include the following:
(i) The findings of the Director with
respect to the pilot program.
(ii) The name of each entity the Director
consulted with pursuant to paragraph (3) in
carrying out the pilot program.
(iii) An assessment by the Director of the
effectiveness of the pilot program.
(iv) A recommendation by the Director as to
whether the pilot program should be made
permanent.
(c) Definitions.--In this section:
(1) The term ``applicable Department media content'' means
any media holding generated, stored, or controlled by the
Defense Media Activity.
(2) The term ``digital content forgery'' means the use of
emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence and
machine learning techniques, to fabricate or manipulate audio,
visual, or text content with the intent to mislead.
(3) The term ``digital content provenance'' means the
verifiable chronology of the origin and history of an image,
video, audio recording, electronic document, or other form of
digital content.
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