S.Amdt. 1909

SA 1909. Mr. WARNER submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
him to the bill S. 4049, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2021 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military
construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy,
to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for
other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:

At the appropriate place in title II, insert the following:

SEC. ___. PILOT PROGRAM ON CONTROLLED CAPTURE IMAGE
VERIFICATION TECHNOLOGY.

(a) In General.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in
consultation with the Director of the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency, shall establish a pilot program on
controlled capture image verification technology integrated
into smartphones.
(b) Purpose.--The purpose of the pilot program is to
collect information on the following:
(1) Risk and cost reduction in information gathering in
both permissive and nonpermissive environments.
(2) Risk and cost reduction in program or project
monitoring and evaluation in both permissive and
nonpermissive environments.
(3) Reducing the risk of malicious visual disinformation
created by artificial intelligence on United States and
global security interests, including global disinformation
dissemination.
(c) Evaluation Metrics.--In establishing the pilot program
under subsection (a), the Secretary shall, in consultation
with the Director, establish metrics to evaluate the
effectiveness of the pilot program.
(d) Termination of Pilot Program.--The pilot program under
section (a) shall terminate not later than the date that is
two years after the date of the commencement of the pilot
program.
(e) Final Report.--
(1) In general.--Not later than 180 days after the date of
the completion of the pilot program under subsection (a), the
Secretary shall submit to the Committee on Armed Services of
the Senate and the Committee on Armed Services of the House
of Representatives a report on the pilot program.
(2) Elements.--The report required by subparagraph (1)
shall include the following:
(A) A description of the pilot program.
(B) A description of the evaluation metrics established
under subsection (c).
(C) An assessment of the effectiveness of the pilot
program, including risk and cost reduction in--
(i) information gathering in both permissive and
nonpermissive environments;
(ii) program or project monitoring and evaluation in both
permissive and nonpermissive environments;
(iii) malicious synthetic media on United States and global
security interests, including global disinformation
dissemination; and
(iv) evaluation of costs of, or alternatives to, this
specific technology and protection of personal information.
(D) An assessment of the cost of the pilot program and an
estimate of the cost of making the pilot program a permanent
part of the budget of the Department of Defense.
(E) Such recommendations for legislative or administrative
action as the Secretary considers appropriate in light of the
pilot program, including recommendations for extending or
making permanent the authority for the pilot program.
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