10 U.S.C. § 4025: Prizes for advanced technology achievements

have the potential for application to the performance of the military missions of the Department of Defense; or demonstrate management practices that improve the schedule or performance, reduce the costs, or otherwise support the transition of technology into acquisition programs or operational use. Each program under subsection (a) shall use a competitive process for the selection of recipients of cash prizes and for the selection of recipients of procurement contracts and other agreements. The process shall include the widely-advertised solicitation of submissions. No prize competition may result in the award of a prize with a fair market value of more than $20,000,000 without the approval of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. No prize competition may result in the award of more than $2,000,000 in cash prizes without the approval of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. No prize competition may result in the award of a solely nonmonetary prize with a fair market value of more than $20,000 without the approval of the Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering. A program under subsection (a) may be carried out in conjunction with or in addition to the exercise of any other authority of an official referred to in that subsection. In addition to such sums as may be appropriated or otherwise made available to the Secretary to award prizes under this section, the Secretary may accept funds or nonmonetary items from other departments and agencies of the Federal Government, from State and local governments, and from the private sector, to award prizes under this section. The Secretary may not give any special consideration to any private sector entity in return for a donation. Use of prize authority under this section shall be considered the use of competitive procedures for the purposes of chapter 221 of this title. Not later than 15 days after a procurement contract or other agreement that exceeds a fair market value of $20,000,000 is awarded under the authority under a program under subsection (a), the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense committees written notice of such award. the value of the relevant procurement contract or other agreement, as applicable, including all options; if applicable, a summary of the management practice that contributed to an improvement to schedule or performance or a reduction in cost relating to the transition of technology; an identification of any portfolio acquisition executive (as defined in section 1737 of this title ) responsible for implementation or oversight of research results, technology development, prototype development, or management practices (as applicable) for which an award was made under this section, and a brief summary of lessons learned by such portfolio acquisition executive in carrying out such implementation or oversight; a brief description of the research result, technology development, or prototype for which such procurement contract or other agreement, as applicable, was awarded; and an explanation of the benefit to the performance of the military mission of the Department of Defense resulting from the award. facilitating the research, development, testing, evaluation, and competition of such technologies to support the Secretaries of the military departments and the commanders of combatant commands in warfighting requirements; and transitioning such technologies, including technologies developed pursuant to pilot programs, prototype projects, or other research and development programs, from the prototyping phase to production. The participants in the prize competition under subsection (a) may include federally funded research and development centers, entities within the private sector, entities within the defense industrial base, institutions of higher education, Federal departments and agencies, and such other categories of participants as the Secretary of Defense considers appropriate. The prize competition under subsection (a) shall be known as the ‘Generative AI Detection and Watermark Competition’. The Under Secretary of Defense for Research and Engineering shall administer the prize competition under subsection (a). Not later than 120 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall provide to the congressional defense committees [Committees on Armed Services and Appropriations of the Senate and the House of Representatives] a briefing on the framework to be used in carrying out the prize competition under subsection (a). Not later than October 1 of each year until the date of termination under subsection (g), the Secretary of Defense shall provide to the congressional defense committees a briefing on the results of the prize competition under subsection (a). The authority to carry out the prize competition under subsection (a) shall terminate on December 31, 2025 . The term ‘generative artificial intelligence detection’ means, with respect to digital content, the positive identification of the use of generative artificial intelligence in the generation of such content. The term ‘generative artificial intelligence watermarking’ means, with respect to digital content, embedding within such content data conveying attribution of the generation of such content to generative artificial intelligence.”