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118TH CONGRESS 

2D SESSION S. 4600 

To require the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs 

to provide a briefing on the status of establishing a course of education 

on authentication of digital content provenance and a briefing on a 

pilot program on authentication of digital content provenance, and for 

other purposes. 

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES 

JUNE 20, 2024 

Mr. PETERS introduced the following bill; which was read twice and referred 

to the Committee on Armed Services 

A BILL 

To require the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense for 

Public Affairs to provide a briefing on the status of 

establishing a course of education on authentication of 

digital content provenance and a briefing on a pilot program on authentication of digital content provenance, 

and for other purposes. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 


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1 SECTION 1. BRIEFING ON COURSE OF EDUCATION AND 

2 PILOT PROGRAM ON AUTHENTICATION OF 

3 DIGITAL CONTENT PROVENANCE FOR CER4 TAIN DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE MEDIA CON5 TENT. 

6 Section 1524 of the National Defense Authorization 

7 Act for Fiscal Year 2024 (Public Law 118–31) is amend8 ed— 

9 (1) in subsection (a)— 

10 (A) by redesignating paragraph (3) as 

11 paragraph (4); and 

12 (B) by inserting after paragraph (2) the 

13 following new paragraph (3): 

14 ‘‘(3) INTERIM BRIEFING.— 

15 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 60 

16 days after the date of the enactment of the Na17 tional Defense Authorization Act of Fiscal Year 

18 2025, the Assistant to the Secretary of Defense 

19 for Public Affairs shall provide to the Com20 mittee on Armed Services of the Senate and the 

21 Committee on Armed Services of the House of 

22 Representatives a briefing on the status of es23 tablishing the course of education under para24 graph (1). 

25 ‘‘(B) ELEMENTS.—The briefing under sub26 paragraph (A) shall cover the following: 


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1 ‘‘(i) The status of the Department 

2 with regards to developing the curriculum 

3 for the course of education. 

4 ‘‘(ii) Any initial resource constraints 

5 or other challenges that may be affecting 

6 the development of the course of education. 

7 ‘‘(iii) Such other matters as the Sec8 retary considers appropriate.’’; and 

9 (2) in subsection (b)— 

10 (A) by redesignating paragraph (5) as 

11 paragraph (6); and 

12 (B) by inserting after paragraph (4) the 

13 following new paragraph (5): 

14 ‘‘(5) INTERIM BRIEFING.— 

15 ‘‘(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 60 

16 days after the date of the enactment of the Na17 tional Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal 

18 Year 2025, the Assistant to the Secretary of 

19 Defense for Public Affairs shall provide to the 

20 Committee on Armed Services of the Senate 

21 and the Committee on Armed Services of the 

22 House of Representatives a briefing on the sta23 tus of the pilot program required by paragraph 

24 (1). 


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1 ‘‘(B) ELEMENTS.—The briefing under sub2 paragraph (A) shall cover the following: 

3 ‘‘(i) The actions taken by the Director 

4 of the Defense Media Activity to identify 

5 an industry open technical standard to 

6 pilot to verify the media content of the De7 partment. 

8 ‘‘(ii) Any resource constraints or other 

9 challenges, either budgetary, personnel, or 

10 policy, that would hamper successful imple11 mentation of the pilot program. 

12 ‘‘(iii) Any business processes or stra13 tegic planning the Department has estab14 lished to fulfill implementation of the pilot 

15 program. 

16 ‘‘(iv) Any other matters as the Direc17 tor considers appropriate.’’. 

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