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and the President shall order a sequestra-
tion, if any, as required by such report.’’. 
(d) ELIMINATION OF THE FISCAL YEAR 2013 SE-
QUESTRATION FOR DEFENSE DIRECT SPENDING.—Any 
sequestration order issued by the President under the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 1985 
to carry out reductions to direct spending for the defense 
function (050) for fiscal year 2013 pursuant to section 
251A of such Act shall have no force or effect. 
(e) REPORT.— 
(1) IN GENERAL.—Not later than August 15, 
2012, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the 
Committees on Armed Services of the House of Rep-
resentatives and the Senate a detailed report on the 
impact of the sequestration of funds authorized and 
appropriated for Fiscal Year 2013 for the Depart-
ment of Defense, if automatically triggered on Janu-
ary 2, 2013, as required by section 251A of the Bal-
anced Budget and Emergency Deficit Control Act of 
1985 (2 U.S.C. 901a), as in effect immediately be-
fore the date of enactment of this Act. 
(2) CONTENTS
OF
REPORT.—The report re-
quired by this section shall include— 
(A) an assessment of the potential impact 
of sequestration on the readiness of the Armed 
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Forces, including impacts to steaming hours, 
flying hours, full spectrum training miles, and 
all other readiness metrics; 
(B) an assessment of the impact on ability 
of the Department of Defense to carry out the 
National Military Strategy of the United States 
and any changes to the most recent Chairman’s 
Risk Assessment required by section 153 of 
title 10, United States Code; 
(C) a listing of the programs, projects, and 
activities across the military departments and 
components that would be reduced or termi-
nated as a result of automatically triggered 
cuts; 
(D) an estimate of the number and value 
of all contracts that will be terminated, restruc-
tured, or rescoped due to sequestration, includ-
ing an estimate of potential termination costs 
and increased contracts costs due to renegoti-
ation and reinstatement of the contract; and 
(E) an estimate of the number of civilian, 
contract, and uniformed personnel whose em-
ployment would be terminated due to sequestra-
tion, including the estimated cost to the De-
partment of executing such a drawdown. 
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SEC. 1095. REPORT ON DEFENSE FORENSIC DATA. 
(a) REQUIREMENT.—The Director of the Defense 
Forensic Office within the Office of the Undersecretary 
of Defense for Acquisition, Technology, and Logistics may 
evaluate opportunities to increase the matching success 
rate when forensic data is collected during site exploitation 
to match forensic data stored in DNA databases. Among 
other items, the Defense Forensic Office may evaluate op-
portunities to assist other countries with moving forward 
with DNA database programs that require a defined cat-
egory of criminal offender to submit DNA to a foreign 
country’s national DNA database. 
(b) REPORT.—The Defense Forensic Office shall sub-
mit to the congressional defense committees a report con-
taining its findings and solutions no later than 120 days 
after the date of the enactment of this Act. 
SEC. 1096. DISPLAY OF STATE, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, 
AND 
TERRITORIAL 
FLAGS 
BY 
ARMED 
FORCES. 
Section 2249b of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(c) DISPLAY OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA AND TER-
RITORIAL FLAGS BY ARMED FORCES.—The Secretary of 
Defense shall ensure that whenever the official flags of 
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all 50 States are displayed by the armed forces, such dis-
play shall include the flags of the District of Columbia, 
Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, United States Virgin Is-
lands, Guam, American Samoa, and Commonwealth of the 
Northern Mariana Islands.’’; and 
(2) in the section heading, by striking the colon 
and all that follows. 
SEC. 1097. DISSEMINATION ABROAD OF INFORMATION 
ABOUT THE UNITED STATES. 
(a) UNITED
STATES
INFORMATION
AND
EDU-
CATIONAL EXCHANGE ACT OF 1948.—Section 501 of the 
United States Information and Educational Exchange Act 
of 1948 (22 U.S.C. 1461) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘GENERAL AUTHORIZATION 
‘‘SEC. 501. (a) The Secretary and the Broadcasting 
Board of Governors are authorized to use funds appro-
priated or otherwise made available for public diplomacy 
information programs to provide for the preparation, dis-
semination, and use of information intended for foreign 
audiences abroad about the United States, its people, and 
its policies, through press, publications, radio, motion pic-
tures, the Internet, and other information media, includ-
ing social media, and through information centers, in-
structors, and other direct or indirect means of commu-
nication. 
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‘‘(b)(1) Except as provided in paragraph (2), the Sec-
retary and the Broadcasting Board of Governors may, 
upon request and reimbursement of the reasonable costs 
incurred in fulfilling such a request, make available, in the 
United States, motion pictures, films, video, audio, and 
other materials prepared for dissemination abroad or dis-
seminated abroad pursuant to this Act, the United States 
International Broadcasting Act of 1994 (22 U.S.C. 6201 
et seq.), the Radio Broadcasting to Cuba Act (22 U.S.C. 
1465 et seq.), or the Television Broadcasting to Cuba Act 
(22 U.S.C. 1465aa et seq.). The Secretary and the Broad-
casting Board of Governors shall issue necessary regula-
tions— 
‘‘(A) to establish procedures to maintain such 
material; 
‘‘(B) for reimbursement of the reasonable costs 
incurred in fulfilling requests for such material; and 
‘‘(C) to ensure that the persons seeking release 
of such material have secured and paid for necessary 
United States rights and licenses. 
‘‘(2) With respect to material prepared for dissemina-
tion abroad or disseminated abroad before the effective 
date of the Smith-Mundt Modernization Act of 2012— 
‘‘(A) the Secretary and the Broadcasting Board 
of Governors shall make available to the Archivist of 
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