1. Short title This Act may be cited as the United States Information Abroad for Strategic Competition Act or the USIA for Strategic Competition Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Beginning in 1983, the Soviet Union waged a disinformation campaign against the United States which came to be known as Operation INFEKTION , falsely accusing the Department of Defense of engineering and spreading the AIDS virus. (2) In 1987, the Soviet Union publicly disavowed its AIDS disinformation following the efforts of the United States Active Measures Working Group to refute these lies and discredit the Soviet Union. (3) Shortly thereafter, the Working Group entered a period of institutional decline because its work was perceived to contravene Department of State efforts to engage with the Soviet Union, and effectively ceased to exist following the fall of the Soviet Union. (4) The final report issued by members of the Working Group, published by the United States Information Agency in 1992 at the request of the House of Representatives, warned that [a]s long as states and groups interested in manipulating world opinion, limiting U.S. Government actions, or generating opposition to U.S. policies and interests continue to use these techniques, there will be a need for the United States Information Agency to systematically monitor, analyze, and counter them. . (5) In 2020, the Communist Party of China (CCP) began a disinformation campaign against the United States, falsely accusing the United States of being the source of the SARS–CoV–2 novel coronavirus and the United States Army of bringing the virus to China. 3. Information statecraft (a) Finding The 2017 National Security Strategy establishes that it is a priority of United States Information Statecraft to improve our understanding of how adversaries gain informational and psychological advantages across all policies and empower a true public diplomacy capability to compete effectively in this arena . (b) Policy It is the policy of the United States to