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4	4	STSESSION S. 3504
5	5	To establish a course of education and pilot program on authentication
6	6	of digital content provenance for certain Department of Defense media
7	7	content, and for other purposes.
8	8	IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
9	9	DECEMBER13, 2023
10	10	Mr. P
11	11	ETERSintroduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred
12	12	to the Committee on Armed Services
13	13	A BILL
14	14	To establish a course of education and pilot program on
15	15	authentication of digital content provenance for certain
16	16	Department of Defense media content, and for other
17	17	purposes.
18	18	Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1
19	19	tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2
20	20	SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3
21	21	This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Digital Defense Con-4
22	22	tent Provenance Act of 2023’’. 5
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25	25	SEC. 2. COURSE OF EDUCATION AND PILOT PROGRAM ON 1
26	26	AUTHENTICATION OF DIGITAL CONTENT 2
27	27	PROVENANCE FOR CERTAIN DEPARTMENT 3
28	28	OF DEFENSE MEDIA CONTENT. 4
29	29	(a) C
30	30	OURSE OFEDUCATION.— 5
31	31	(1) I
32	32	N GENERAL.—Not later than one year 6
33	33	after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-7
34	34	retary of Defense, acting through the Director of the 8
35	35	Defense Media Activity, shall establish a course of 9
36	36	education at the Defense Information School, the 10
37	37	purpose of which shall be to provide instruction on 11
38	38	the practical concepts and skills needed by public af-12
39	39	fairs, audiovisual, visual information, and records 13
40	40	management specialists to understand the following: 14
41	41	(A) Digital content provenance for applica-15
42	42	ble Department media content. 16
43	43	(B) The challenges posed to missions and 17
44	44	operations of the Department by a digital con-18
45	45	tent forgery. 19
46	46	(C) How industry open technical standards 20
47	47	may be used to authenticate the digital content 21
48	48	provenance of applicable Department media 22
49	49	content. 23
50	50	(2) M
51	51	ATTERS.—The course of education under 24
52	52	paragraph (1) shall cover the following matters: 25
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55	55	(A) The challenges to missions and oper-1
56	56	ations of the Department posed by a digital 2
57	57	content forgery. 3
58	58	(B) The development of industry open 4
59	59	technical standards for authenticating the dig-5
60	60	ital content provenance of applicable Depart-6
61	61	ment media content. 7
62	62	(C) Hands-on training on techniques to 8
63	63	record secure and authenticated digital content 9
64	64	to document and communicate relevant themes 10
65	65	and messages of the Department. 11
66	66	(D) Training on— 12
67	67	(i) the use of industry open technical 13
68	68	standards for authenticating digital con-14
69	69	tent provenance in the completion of post- 15
70	70	production tasks; and 16
71	71	(ii) the transmission of applicable De-17
72	72	partment media content in both oper-18
73	73	ational and nonoperational environments. 19
74	74	(E) Such other matters as the Director of 20
75	75	the Defense Media Activity considers appro-21
76	76	priate. 22
77	77	(3) R
78	78	EPORT.—Not later than one year after the 23
79	79	date of the establishment of the course of education 24
80	80	under paragraph (1), the Director of the Defense 25
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83	83	Media Activity shall submit to the Committees on 1
84	84	Armed Services of the House of Representatives and 2
85	85	the Senate a report on the following: 3
86	86	(A) The status of the development of a 4
87	87	curriculum for such course of education. 5
88	88	(B) The implementation plan of the Direc-6
89	89	tor for such course of education, including the 7
90	90	following: 8
91	91	(i) The expertise and qualifications of 9
92	92	the personnel of the Department respon-10
93	93	sible for teaching such course of education. 11
94	94	(ii) The list of sources consulted or 12
95	95	otherwise used to develop the curriculum 13
96	96	for such course of education. 14
97	97	(iii) A description of the industry open 15
98	98	technical standards referred to in para-16
99	99	graph (1)(C). 17
100	100	(iv) The status of the implementation 18
101	101	of such course of education. 19
102	102	(C) The resources available to the Director 20
103	103	to carry out this subsection and whether the 21
104	104	Director requires any additional resources to 22
105	105	carry out this subsection. 23
106	106	(b) P
107	107	ILOTPROGRAM ON IMPLEMENTING DIGITAL 24
108	108	C
109	109	ONTENTPROVENANCESTANDARDS.— 25
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112	112	(1) PILOT PROGRAM.—Not later than one year 1
113	113	after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Di-2
114	114	rector of the Defense Media Activity shall carry out 3
115	115	a pilot program to assess the feasibility and advis-4
116	116	ability of implementing industry open technical 5
117	117	standards for digital content provenance for official 6
118	118	photographs and videos of the Department of De-7
119	119	fense publicly released by the Defense Visual Infor-8
120	120	mation Distribution Service, or any successor oper-9
121	121	ation, and other distribution platforms, systems, and 10
122	122	services used by the Department of Defense (in this 11
123	123	subsection referred to as the ‘‘pilot program’’). 12
124	124	(2) E
125	125	LEMENTS.—In carrying out the pilot pro-13
126	126	gram, the Director of the Defense Media Activity 14
127	127	shall— 15
128	128	(A) establish a process for using industry 16
129	129	open technical standards to verify the digital 17
130	130	content provenance of applicable Department 18
131	131	media content; 19
132	132	(B) apply technology solutions that com-20
133	133	port with industry open technical standard for 21
134	134	digital content provenance to photographs and 22
135	135	videos of the Department publicly released as 23
136	136	described in paragraph (1) after the date of the 24
137	137	enactment of this Act; 25
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140	140	(C) assess the feasibility and advisability of 1
141	141	applying an industry open technical standard 2
142	142	for digital content provenance to historical vis-3
143	143	ual information records of the Department 4
144	144	stored at the Defense Visual Information 5
145	145	Records Center; and 6
146	146	(D) develop and apply measure of effec-7
147	147	tiveness for the implementation of the pilot pro-8
148	148	gram. 9
149	149	(3) C
150	150	ONSULTATION.—In carrying out the pilot 10
151	151	program, the Director of the Defense Media Activity 11
152	152	may consult with federally funded research and de-12
153	153	velopment centers, entities within private industry, 13
154	154	institutions of higher education, and such other enti-14
155	155	ties as the Director considers appropriate. 15
156	156	(4) T
157	157	ERMINATION.—The pilot program shall 16
158	158	terminate on January 1, 2027. 17
159	159	(5) R
160	160	EPORT.— 18
161	161	(A) I
162	162	N GENERAL.—Not later than January 19
163	163	1, 2026, the Director of the Defense Media Ac-20
164	164	tivity shall submit to the Committees on Armed 21
165	165	Services of the House of Representatives and 22
166	166	the Senate a report on the pilot program. 23
167	167	(B) E
168	168	LEMENTS.—The report under sub-24
169	169	paragraph (A) shall include the following: 25
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172	172	(i) The findings of the Director with 1
173	173	respect to the pilot program. 2
174	174	(ii) The name of each entity the Di-3
175	175	rector consulted with pursuant to para-4
176	176	graph (3) in carrying out the pilot pro-5
177	177	gram. 6
178	178	(iii) An assessment by the Director of 7
179	179	the effectiveness of the pilot program. 8
180	180	(iv) A recommendation by the Direc-9
181	181	tor as to whether the pilot program should 10
182	182	be made permanent. 11
183	183	(c) D
184	184	EFINITIONS.—In this section: 12
185	185	(1) The term ‘‘applicable Department media 13
186	186	content’’ means any media holding generated, 14
187	187	stored, or controlled by the Defense Media Activity. 15
188	188	(2) The term ‘‘digital content forgery’’ means 16
189	189	the use of emerging technologies, including artificial 17
190	190	intelligence and machine learning techniques, to fab-18
191	191	ricate or manipulate audio, visual, or text content 19
192	192	with the intent to mislead. 20
193	193	(3) The term ‘‘digital content provenance’’ 21
194	194	means the verifiable chronology of the origin and 22
195	195	history of an image, video, audio recording, elec-23
196	196	tronic document, or other form of digital content. 24
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