[Congressional Record Volume 166, Number 117 (Thursday, June 25, 2020)]
[Senate]
[Page S3407]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]

  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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