HR001119S0085-Amendment-01.pdf

This document provides details on a federal contract opportunity from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency for the Semantic Forensics program. The goal of the program is to develop technologies to automatically detect, attribute, and characterize falsified multi-modal media assets such as text, audio, images, and video in order to defend against large-scale disinformation attacks. The detection techniques sought rely on identifying semantic inconsistencies in generated or manipulated media, rather than statistical fingerprints, requiring creators of falsified media to get every semantic detail correct. Technologies developed under this program aim to determine if media is generated or manipulated, infer if media originates from a particular organization or individual, and reason about whether media was generated or manipulated for malicious purposes. Submissions are sought to advance semantic analysis capabilities and help identify, deter, and understand adversary disinformation campaigns.