Analysis of potential modifications to the offense of wrongful broadcast or distribution of intimate visual images under the Uniform Code of Military Justice

Section 569F of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2025 (Public Law 118–159; 138 Stat. 1908) is amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by inserting, in coordination with the Joint Service Committee on Military Justice, after Secretary of Defense; (B) in paragraph (1), by striking and at the end; (C) by redesignating paragraph (2) as paragraph (3); (D) by inserting after paragraph (1) the following new paragraph: (2) analyze the feasibility and advisability of, and potential approaches to, modifying the offense of wrongful broadcast or distribution of intimate visual images under section 917a of title 10, United States Code (article 117a of the Uniform Code of Military Justice)— (A) to clarify its applicability to the nonconsensual distribution of digital forgeries (commonly known as deepfakes); and (B) to include such other changes as are indicated in the amendment proposed by section 552 of the H.R. 3838, as engrossed in the House of Representatives on September 10, 2025; and; and (E) in paragraph (3), as so redesignated, by striking provide the results of such analysis to the Committees and inserting not later than December 31, 2026, submit a report on the results of the analyses required under paragraphs (1) and (2) to the Committees; and (2) in subsection (b)— (A) in paragraph (1)(B)(ii), by striking and at the end; (B) in paragraph (2), by striking the period at the end and inserting; and; and (C) by adding at the end the following new paragraph: (3) the advisability of modifying section 917a of title 10, United States Code (article 117a of the Uniform Code of Military Justice) in the manner described in subsection (a)(2) and such other approaches to the modification of such section (article) as the Secretary considers appropriate..