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| 2 | 2 | | 118THCONGRESS |
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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 2973 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To require the Secretary of Defense to develop, in cooperation with allies |
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| 6 | 6 | | and partners in the Middle East, an integrated maritime domain aware- |
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| 7 | 7 | | ness and interdiction capability, and for other purposes. |
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| 8 | 8 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 9 | 9 | | APRIL27, 2023 |
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| 10 | 10 | | Mrs. R |
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| 11 | 11 | | ODGERSof Washington (for herself, Mr. SCHNEIDER, Mr. TRONE, Mrs. |
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| 12 | 12 | | W |
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| 13 | 13 | | AGNER, Mr. BACON, and Mr. PANETTA) introduced the following bill; |
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| 14 | 14 | | which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition |
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| 15 | 15 | | to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently de- |
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| 16 | 16 | | termined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions |
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| 17 | 17 | | as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned |
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| 18 | 18 | | A BILL |
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| 19 | 19 | | To require the Secretary of Defense to develop, in coopera- |
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| 20 | 20 | | tion with allies and partners in the Middle East, an |
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| 21 | 21 | | integrated maritime domain awareness and interdiction |
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| 22 | 22 | | capability, and for other purposes. |
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| 23 | 23 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 24 | 24 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 25 | 25 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 26 | 26 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Maritime Architecture 4 |
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| 27 | 27 | | and Response to International Terrorism In the Middle 5 |
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| 28 | 28 | | East Act of 2023’’ or the ‘‘MARITIME Act of 2023’’. 6 |
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| 32 | 32 | | SEC. 2. MIDDLE EAST INTEGRATED MARITIME DOMAIN 1 |
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| 33 | 33 | | AWARENESS AND INTERDICTION CAPA-2 |
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| 34 | 34 | | BILITY. 3 |
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| 35 | 35 | | (a) I |
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| 36 | 36 | | NGENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense, in con-4 |
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| 37 | 37 | | sultation with the Secretary of State, shall seek to build 5 |
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| 38 | 38 | | upon the historic opportunities created by the Abraham 6 |
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| 39 | 39 | | Accords and the incorporation of Israel into the area of 7 |
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| 40 | 40 | | responsibility of the United States Central Command to 8 |
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| 41 | 41 | | develop a Middle East integrated maritime domain aware-9 |
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| 42 | 42 | | ness and interdiction capability for the purpose of pro-10 |
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| 43 | 43 | | tecting the people, infrastructure, and territory of such 11 |
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| 44 | 44 | | countries from— 12 |
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| 45 | 45 | | (1) manned and unmanned naval systems, un-13 |
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| 46 | 46 | | dersea warfare capabilities, and anti-ship missiles of 14 |
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| 47 | 47 | | Iran and groups affiliated with Iran; and 15 |
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| 48 | 48 | | (2) violent extremist organizations, criminal 16 |
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| 49 | 49 | | networks, and piracy activities that threaten lawful 17 |
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| 50 | 50 | | commerce in the waterways within the area of re-18 |
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| 51 | 51 | | sponsibility of the United States Naval Forces Cen-19 |
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| 52 | 52 | | tral Command. 20 |
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| 53 | 53 | | (b) S |
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| 54 | 54 | | TRATEGY.— 21 |
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| 55 | 55 | | (1) I |
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| 56 | 56 | | N GENERAL.—Not later than 60 days after 22 |
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| 57 | 57 | | the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary 23 |
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| 58 | 58 | | of Defense, in consultation with the Secretary of 24 |
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| 59 | 59 | | State, shall submit to the appropriate committees of 25 |
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| 62 | 62 | | •HR 2973 IH |
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| 63 | 63 | | Congress a strategy for the cooperation described in 1 |
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| 64 | 64 | | subsection (a). 2 |
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| 65 | 65 | | (2) M |
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| 66 | 66 | | ATTERS TO BE INCLUDED .—The strategy 3 |
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| 67 | 67 | | required by paragraph (1) shall include the fol-4 |
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| 68 | 68 | | lowing: 5 |
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| 69 | 69 | | (A) An assessment of the threats posed to 6 |
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| 70 | 70 | | ally or partner countries in the Middle East 7 |
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| 71 | 71 | | by— 8 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (i) manned and unmanned naval sys-9 |
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| 73 | 73 | | tems, undersea warfare capabilities, and 10 |
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| 74 | 74 | | anti-ship missiles of Iran and groups affili-11 |
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| 75 | 75 | | ated with Iran; and 12 |
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| 76 | 76 | | (ii) violent extremist organizations, 13 |
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| 77 | 77 | | criminal networks, and piracy activities 14 |
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| 78 | 78 | | that threaten lawful commerce in the wa-15 |
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| 79 | 79 | | terways within the area of responsibility of 16 |
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| 80 | 80 | | the United States Naval Forces Central 17 |
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| 81 | 81 | | Command. 18 |
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| 82 | 82 | | (B) A description of existing multilateral 19 |
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| 83 | 83 | | maritime partnerships currently led by the 20 |
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| 84 | 84 | | United States Naval Forces Central Command, 21 |
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| 85 | 85 | | including the Combined Maritime Forces (in-22 |
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| 86 | 86 | | cluding its associated Task Forces 150, 151, 23 |
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| 87 | 87 | | 152, and 153), the International Maritime Se-24 |
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| 88 | 88 | | curity Construct, and the Navy’s Task Force 25 |
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| 92 | 92 | | 59, and a discussion of the role of such partner-1 |
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| 93 | 93 | | ships in building an integrated maritime secu-2 |
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| 94 | 94 | | rity capability. 3 |
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| 95 | 95 | | (C) A description of progress made in ad-4 |
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| 96 | 96 | | vancing the integration of Israel into the exist-5 |
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| 97 | 97 | | ing multilateral maritime partnerships de-6 |
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| 98 | 98 | | scribed in subparagraph (B). 7 |
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| 99 | 99 | | (D) A description of efforts among coun-8 |
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| 100 | 100 | | tries in the Middle East to coordinate intel-9 |
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| 101 | 101 | | ligence, reconnaissance, and surveillance capa-10 |
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| 102 | 102 | | bilities and indicators and warnings with re-11 |
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| 103 | 103 | | spect to the threats described in subparagraph 12 |
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| 104 | 104 | | (A), and a description of any impediment to op-13 |
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| 105 | 105 | | timizing such efforts. 14 |
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| 106 | 106 | | (E) A description of the current Depart-15 |
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| 107 | 107 | | ment of Defense systems that, in coordination 16 |
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| 108 | 108 | | with ally and partner countries in the Middle 17 |
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| 109 | 109 | | East— 18 |
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| 110 | 110 | | (i) provide awareness of and defend 19 |
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| 111 | 111 | | against such threats; and 20 |
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| 112 | 112 | | (ii) address current capability gaps. 21 |
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| 113 | 113 | | (F) An explanation of the manner in which 22 |
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| 114 | 114 | | an integrated maritime domain awareness and 23 |
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| 115 | 115 | | interdiction architecture would improve collec-24 |
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| 116 | 116 | | tive security in the Middle East. 25 |
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| 120 | 120 | | (G) A description of existing and planned 1 |
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| 121 | 121 | | efforts to engage ally and partner countries in 2 |
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| 122 | 122 | | the Middle East in establishing such an archi-3 |
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| 123 | 123 | | tecture. 4 |
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| 124 | 124 | | (H) An identification of the elements of 5 |
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| 125 | 125 | | such an architecture that may be acquired and 6 |
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| 126 | 126 | | operated by ally and partner countries in the 7 |
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| 127 | 127 | | Middle East, and a list of such elements for 8 |
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| 128 | 128 | | each such ally and partner. 9 |
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| 129 | 129 | | (I) An identification of the elements of 10 |
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| 130 | 130 | | such an architecture that may only be provided 11 |
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| 131 | 131 | | and operated by members of the United States 12 |
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| 132 | 132 | | Armed Forces. 13 |
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| 133 | 133 | | (J) An identification of any challenge to 14 |
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| 134 | 134 | | optimizing such an architecture in the Middle 15 |
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| 135 | 135 | | East. 16 |
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| 136 | 136 | | (K) An assessment of progress and key 17 |
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| 137 | 137 | | challenges in the implementation of the strategy 18 |
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| 138 | 138 | | required by paragraph (1) using the metrics 19 |
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| 139 | 139 | | identified in accordance with paragraph (3). 20 |
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| 140 | 140 | | (L) Recommendations for improvements in 21 |
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| 141 | 141 | | the implementation of such strategy based on 22 |
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| 142 | 142 | | such metrics. 23 |
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| 143 | 143 | | (M) An assessment of any capabilities or 24 |
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| 144 | 144 | | lessons from the Navy’s Task Force 59 that 25 |
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| 148 | 148 | | may be leveraged to support an integrated mar-1 |
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| 149 | 149 | | itime domain awareness and interdiction capa-2 |
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| 150 | 150 | | bility in the Middle East. 3 |
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| 151 | 151 | | (N) Any other matter the Secretary of De-4 |
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| 152 | 152 | | fense considers relevant. 5 |
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| 153 | 153 | | (3) M |
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| 154 | 154 | | ETRICS.—The Secretary of Defense shall 6 |
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| 155 | 155 | | identify metrics to assess progress in the implemen-7 |
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| 156 | 156 | | tation of the strategy required by paragraph (1). 8 |
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| 157 | 157 | | (4) F |
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| 158 | 158 | | ORMAT.—The strategy required by para-9 |
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| 159 | 159 | | graph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form but 10 |
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| 160 | 160 | | may include a classified annex. 11 |
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| 161 | 161 | | (c) F |
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| 162 | 162 | | EASIBILITYSTUDY.— 12 |
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| 163 | 163 | | (1) I |
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| 164 | 164 | | N GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense 13 |
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| 165 | 165 | | shall conduct a study on the feasibility and advis-14 |
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| 166 | 166 | | ability of establishing a fund for an integrated mari-15 |
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| 167 | 167 | | time domain awareness and interdiction capability to 16 |
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| 168 | 168 | | protect the people, infrastructure, and territory of 17 |
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| 169 | 169 | | ally and partner countries in the Middle East 18 |
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| 170 | 170 | | from— 19 |
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| 171 | 171 | | (A) manned and unmanned naval systems, 20 |
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| 172 | 172 | | undersea warfare capabilities, and anti-ship 21 |
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| 173 | 173 | | missiles of Iran and groups affiliated with Iran; 22 |
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| 174 | 174 | | and 23 |
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| 175 | 175 | | (B) violent extremist organizations, crimi-24 |
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| 176 | 176 | | nal networks, and piracy activities that threaten 25 |
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| 180 | 180 | | lawful commerce in the waterways of the Middle 1 |
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| 181 | 181 | | East. 2 |
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| 182 | 182 | | (2) E |
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| 183 | 183 | | LEMENT.—The study required by para-3 |
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| 184 | 184 | | graph (1) shall include an assessment of funds that 4 |
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| 185 | 185 | | could be contributed by ally and partner countries of 5 |
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| 186 | 186 | | the United States. 6 |
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| 187 | 187 | | (3) R |
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| 188 | 188 | | EPORT.—Not later than 90 days after the 7 |
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| 189 | 189 | | date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of 8 |
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| 190 | 190 | | Defense shall submit to the appropriate committees 9 |
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| 191 | 191 | | of Congress a report on the results of the study con-10 |
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| 192 | 192 | | ducted under paragraph (1). 11 |
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| 193 | 193 | | (d) P |
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| 194 | 194 | | ROTECTION OFSENSITIVEINFORMATION.—Any 12 |
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| 195 | 195 | | activity carried out under this section shall be conducted 13 |
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| 196 | 196 | | in a manner that appropriately protects sensitive informa-14 |
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| 197 | 197 | | tion and the national security interests of the United 15 |
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| 198 | 198 | | States. 16 |
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| 199 | 199 | | (e) A |
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| 200 | 200 | | PPROPRIATECOMMITTEES OF CONGRESSDE-17 |
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| 201 | 201 | | FINED.—In this section, the term ‘‘appropriate commit-18 |
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| 202 | 202 | | tees of Congress’’ means— 19 |
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| 203 | 203 | | (1) the Committee on Armed Services, the 20 |
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| 204 | 204 | | Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on 21 |
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| 205 | 205 | | Foreign Relations, and the Select Committee on In-22 |
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| 206 | 206 | | telligence of the Senate; and 23 |
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| 207 | 207 | | (2) the Committee on Armed Services, the 24 |
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| 208 | 208 | | Committee on Appropriations, the Committee on 25 |
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| 213 | 213 | | mittee on Intelligence of the House of Representa-2 |
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| 214 | 214 | | tives. 3 |
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