Sec. 218. Competition for technology that detects and watermarks the use of generative artificial intelligence
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The Secretary of Defense shall establish and carry out a prize competition under section 4025 of title 10, United States Code, to evaluate technology, including applications, tools, and models, for the detection and watermarking of generative artificial intelligence (AI)— to facilitate the research, development, testing, evaluation, and competition of secure generative artificial intelligence detection and watermark technologies that can support each Secretary of a military department and the commanders of combatant commands to support warfighting requirements; and to transition such technologies, including technologies developed from pilot programs, prototype projects, or other research and development programs, from the prototyping phase to production.
The participants in the competition carried out pursuant to paragraph
(1)may include Federally-funded research and development centers (FFRDCs), the private sector, the defense industrial base, academia, government agencies, and such other participants as the Secretary considers appropriate. The competition will begin within 270 days of passage of this Act. The competition established and carried out pursuant to paragraph
(1)shall be known as the Generative AI Detection and Watermark Competition . The Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering shall administer the competition required by subsection (a). Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary shall provide the congressional defense committees a briefing on the framework the Secretary will use to carry out the competition required by subsection (a). Not later than October 1 of each year until the termination of the competition established and carried out under subsection (a), the Secretary shall submit to the congressional defense committees a report on the results of the competition. In this section: The term detection means a technology that can positively identify the presence of generative artificial intelligence in digital content. The term watermarking means embedding a piece of data onto detected artificial intelligence generated digital content, conveying attribution to the source generation. The competition established and carried out pursuant to subsection
(a)shall terminate on December 31, 2025.