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| 4 | 4 | | STSESSION H. R. 1229 |
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| 5 | 5 | | To enhance bilateral defense cooperation between the United States and |
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| 6 | 6 | | Israel, and for other purposes. |
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| 7 | 7 | | IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES |
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| 8 | 8 | | FEBRUARY12, 2025 |
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| 9 | 9 | | Mr. W |
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| 10 | 10 | | ILSONof South Carolina (for himself and Mr. NORCROSS) introduced |
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| 11 | 11 | | the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Armed Serv- |
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| 12 | 12 | | ices, and in addition to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, for a period |
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| 13 | 13 | | to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider- |
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| 14 | 14 | | ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee |
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| 15 | 15 | | concerned |
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| 16 | 16 | | A BILL |
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| 17 | 17 | | To enhance bilateral defense cooperation between the United |
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| 18 | 18 | | States and Israel, and for other purposes. |
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| 19 | 19 | | Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-1 |
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| 20 | 20 | | tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 2 |
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| 21 | 21 | | SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 3 |
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| 22 | 22 | | This Act may be cited as the ‘‘United States-Israel 4 |
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| 23 | 23 | | Defense Partnership Act of 2025’’. 5 |
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| 24 | 24 | | SEC. 2. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 6 |
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| 25 | 25 | | It is the sense of Congress that— 7 |
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| 26 | 26 | | (1) the United States and Israel— 8 |
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| 30 | 30 | | (A) are bound closely by historic and cul-1 |
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| 31 | 31 | | tural ties and mutual interests; and 2 |
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| 32 | 32 | | (B) face common threats, which are con-3 |
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| 33 | 33 | | stantly evolving in scope, scale, and lethality; 4 |
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| 34 | 34 | | (2) to most effectively counter such shared 5 |
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| 35 | 35 | | threats, the United States and Israel must expand 6 |
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| 36 | 36 | | their defense partnership to develop new technologies 7 |
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| 37 | 37 | | and leverage the unique capabilities offered by de-8 |
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| 38 | 38 | | fense industrial base of each country; and 9 |
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| 39 | 39 | | (3) this Act furthers such goal through the es-10 |
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| 40 | 40 | | tablishment of several joint initiatives. 11 |
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| 41 | 41 | | SEC. 3. UNITED STATES-ISRAEL PROGRAM ON COUN-12 |
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| 42 | 42 | | TERING UNMANNED SYSTEMS. 13 |
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| 43 | 43 | | (a) F |
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| 44 | 44 | | INDINGS.—Congress makes the following find-14 |
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| 45 | 45 | | ings: 15 |
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| 46 | 46 | | (1) The increasing use of unmanned systems by 16 |
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| 47 | 47 | | state and nonstate actors poses a significant threat 17 |
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| 48 | 48 | | to the national security of the United States and its 18 |
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| 49 | 49 | | allies, including Israel. 19 |
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| 50 | 50 | | (2) Cooperation in developing and deploying 20 |
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| 51 | 51 | | counter-unmanned systems technology will enhance 21 |
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| 52 | 52 | | mutual security and strengthen bilateral defense ca-22 |
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| 53 | 53 | | pabilities. 23 |
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| 54 | 54 | | (3) Israel is a global leader in the development 24 |
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| 55 | 55 | | of advanced counter-unmanned systems technologies, 25 |
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| 59 | 59 | | and a cooperative program will leverage shared ex-1 |
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| 60 | 60 | | pertise and resources to address evolving threats. 2 |
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| 61 | 61 | | (b) E |
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| 62 | 62 | | STABLISHMENT.— 3 |
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| 63 | 63 | | (1) I |
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| 64 | 64 | | N GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense, 4 |
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| 65 | 65 | | with the concurrence of the Minister of Defense of 5 |
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| 66 | 66 | | Israel, shall establish a cooperative program between 6 |
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| 67 | 67 | | the United States and Israel, to be known as the 7 |
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| 68 | 68 | | ‘‘United States-Israel Counter-Unmanned Systems 8 |
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| 69 | 69 | | Program’’, for the purpose of enhancing cooperation 9 |
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| 70 | 70 | | between the United States and Israel for purposes 10 |
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| 71 | 71 | | of— 11 |
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| 72 | 72 | | (A) developing, testing, evaluating, and de-12 |
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| 73 | 73 | | ploying advanced technologies for countering 13 |
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| 74 | 74 | | unmanned systems that threaten the United 14 |
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| 75 | 75 | | States and Israel; 15 |
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| 76 | 76 | | (B) sharing technical expertise and data 16 |
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| 77 | 77 | | on emerging unmanned systems and related 17 |
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| 78 | 78 | | threats; 18 |
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| 79 | 79 | | (C) conducting joint research and develop-19 |
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| 80 | 80 | | ment initiatives; and 20 |
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| 81 | 81 | | (D) deploying and integrating counter-un-21 |
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| 82 | 82 | | manned systems for mutual defense. 22 |
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| 83 | 83 | | (2) A |
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| 84 | 84 | | CTIVITIES.—The program established 23 |
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| 85 | 85 | | under this subsection shall include the following: 24 |
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| 89 | 89 | | (A) Collaborative research initiatives in-1 |
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| 90 | 90 | | volving government, private sector, and aca-2 |
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| 91 | 91 | | demic institutions in the United States and 3 |
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| 92 | 92 | | Israel, conducted in a manner that protects sen-4 |
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| 93 | 93 | | sitive technology and information and the na-5 |
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| 94 | 94 | | tional security interests of the United States 6 |
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| 95 | 95 | | and Israel. 7 |
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| 96 | 96 | | (B) Joint training exercises and informa-8 |
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| 97 | 97 | | tion-sharing mechanisms to enhance operational 9 |
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| 98 | 98 | | readiness of personnel of the United States and 10 |
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| 99 | 99 | | of Israel. 11 |
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| 100 | 100 | | (C) The establishment, within the Depart-12 |
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| 101 | 101 | | ment of Defense, of a United States-Israel 13 |
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| 102 | 102 | | Counter-Unmanned Systems Program Office to 14 |
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| 103 | 103 | | oversee program execution and coordination. 15 |
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| 104 | 104 | | (D) The procurement and deployment of 16 |
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| 105 | 105 | | counter-unmanned systems. 17 |
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| 106 | 106 | | (c) A |
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| 107 | 107 | | NNUALREPORT.— 18 |
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| 108 | 108 | | (1) I |
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| 109 | 109 | | N GENERAL.—Not later than 1 year after 19 |
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| 110 | 110 | | the date of the enactment of this Act, and annually 20 |
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| 111 | 111 | | thereafter, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to 21 |
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| 112 | 112 | | the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate and 22 |
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| 113 | 113 | | the Committee on Armed Services of the House of 23 |
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| 114 | 114 | | Representatives a report on the implementation of 24 |
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| 115 | 115 | | the program established under this section. 25 |
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| 119 | 119 | | (2) ELEMENTS.—Each report required by para-1 |
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| 120 | 120 | | graph (1) shall include, for the preceding year— 2 |
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| 121 | 121 | | (A) a description of activities conducted 3 |
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| 122 | 122 | | under the program; 4 |
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| 123 | 123 | | (B) an assessment of progress made in ad-5 |
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| 124 | 124 | | dressing unmanned systems threats and re-6 |
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| 125 | 125 | | quirements; 7 |
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| 126 | 126 | | (C) an assessment of the program’s col-8 |
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| 127 | 127 | | laboration with other relevant United States 9 |
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| 128 | 128 | | Government programs, including the United 10 |
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| 129 | 129 | | States-Israel Operations-Technology Working 11 |
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| 130 | 130 | | Group and Counter Unmanned Aerial Systems 12 |
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| 131 | 131 | | program run by the Irregular Warfare Tech-13 |
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| 132 | 132 | | nical Support Directorate; and 14 |
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| 133 | 133 | | (D) recommendations for future program 15 |
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| 134 | 134 | | activities and funding. 16 |
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| 135 | 135 | | (3) F |
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| 136 | 136 | | ORM.—Each report submitted under para-17 |
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| 137 | 137 | | graph (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form but 18 |
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| 138 | 138 | | may include a classified annex as necessary to pro-19 |
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| 139 | 139 | | tect sensitive information. 20 |
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| 140 | 140 | | (d) A |
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| 141 | 141 | | UTHORIZATION OFAPPROPRIATIONS.—There is 21 |
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| 142 | 142 | | authorized to be appropriated $150,000,000 for each of 22 |
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| 143 | 143 | | fiscal years 2026 through 2030 to carry out the program 23 |
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| 144 | 144 | | under this section. 24 |
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| 148 | 148 | | (e) RULE OFCONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in this sec-1 |
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| 149 | 149 | | tion shall be construed to alter or supersede agreements 2 |
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| 150 | 150 | | or obligations between the United States and Israel in ex-3 |
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| 151 | 151 | | istence on the date of the enactment of this Act. 4 |
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| 152 | 152 | | SEC. 4. EXTENSION AND MODIFICATION OF UNITED 5 |
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| 153 | 153 | | STATES-ISRAEL ANTI-TUNNEL COOPERATION. 6 |
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| 154 | 154 | | Section 1279 of the National Defense Authorization 7 |
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| 155 | 155 | | Act for Fiscal Year 2016 (Public Law 114–92; 22 U.S.C. 8 |
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| 156 | 156 | | 8606 note) is amended— 9 |
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| 157 | 157 | | (1) in subsection (b)(4), by striking 10 |
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| 158 | 158 | | ‘‘$50,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$80,000,000’’; and 11 |
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| 159 | 159 | | (2) in subsection (f), by striking ‘‘December 31, 12 |
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| 160 | 160 | | 2026’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2028’’. 13 |
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| 161 | 161 | | SEC. 5. EXTENSION AND MODIFICATION OF UNITED 14 |
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| 162 | 162 | | STATES-ISRAEL COOPERATION TO COUNTER 15 |
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| 163 | 163 | | UNMANNED AERIAL SYSTEMS. 16 |
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| 164 | 164 | | Section 1278 of the National Defense Authorization 17 |
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| 165 | 165 | | Act for Fiscal Year 2020 (22 U.S.C. 8606 note) is amend-18 |
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| 166 | 166 | | ed— 19 |
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| 167 | 167 | | (1) in subsection (b)(4), by striking 20 |
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| 168 | 168 | | ‘‘$55,000,000’’ and inserting ‘‘$75,000,000’’; and 21 |
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| 169 | 169 | | (2) in subsection (f), by striking ‘‘December 31, 22 |
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| 170 | 170 | | 2026’’ and inserting ‘‘December 31, 2028’’. 23 |
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| 174 | 174 | | SEC. 6. UNITED STATES-ISRAEL EMERGING TECHNOLOGY 1 |
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| 175 | 175 | | CAPABILITIES COOPERATION. 2 |
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| 176 | 176 | | (a) S |
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| 177 | 177 | | TATEMENT OFPOLICY.—It is the policy of the 3 |
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| 178 | 178 | | United States to support and encourage further defense 4 |
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| 179 | 179 | | collaboration with Israel in areas of emerging technologies 5 |
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| 180 | 180 | | capable of enabling the warfare capabilities of both the 6 |
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| 181 | 181 | | United States and Israel to meet emerging defense chal-7 |
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| 182 | 182 | | lenges, including in the areas of artificial intelligence, cy-8 |
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| 183 | 183 | | bersecurity, robotics, quantum, and automation. 9 |
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| 184 | 184 | | (b) A |
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| 185 | 185 | | UTHORITYTOESTABLISHEMERGINGDEFENSE 10 |
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| 186 | 186 | | T |
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| 187 | 187 | | ECHNOLOGYCAPABILITIESPROGRAMWITHISRAEL.— 11 |
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| 188 | 188 | | (1) I |
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| 189 | 189 | | N GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense, 12 |
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| 190 | 190 | | upon request by the Ministry of Defense of Israel 13 |
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| 191 | 191 | | and in consultation with the Secretary of State and 14 |
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| 192 | 192 | | the Director of National Intelligence, is authorized 15 |
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| 193 | 193 | | to carry out, jointly with Israel, research, develop-16 |
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| 194 | 194 | | ment, test, and evaluation in areas of emerging tech-17 |
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| 195 | 195 | | nologies capable of enabling the warfare capabilities 18 |
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| 196 | 196 | | of the United States and Israel to meet emerging de-19 |
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| 197 | 197 | | fense challenges, including in the areas of artificial 20 |
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| 198 | 198 | | intelligence, cybersecurity, robotics, quantum, and 21 |
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| 199 | 199 | | automation. 22 |
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| 200 | 200 | | (2) P |
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| 201 | 201 | | ROTECTION OF SENSITIVE INFORMA -23 |
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| 202 | 202 | | TION.—Any activity carried out pursuant to the au-24 |
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| 203 | 203 | | thority provided by paragraph (1) shall be conducted 25 |
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| 204 | 204 | | in a manner that appropriately protects sensitive in-26 |
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| 209 | 209 | | United States and Israel. 2 |
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| 210 | 210 | | (3) R |
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| 211 | 211 | | EPORT.—None of the activities described 3 |
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| 212 | 212 | | in paragraph (1) may be carried out until the date 4 |
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| 213 | 213 | | on which the Secretary of Defense submits to the 5 |
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| 214 | 214 | | Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and 6 |
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| 215 | 215 | | the House of Representatives a report that sets 7 |
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| 216 | 216 | | forth the following: 8 |
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| 217 | 217 | | (A) A memorandum of agreement between 9 |
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| 218 | 218 | | the United States and Israel regarding sharing 10 |
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| 219 | 219 | | of research and development costs for the capa-11 |
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| 220 | 220 | | bilities described in paragraph (1), and any 12 |
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| 221 | 221 | | supporting documents. 13 |
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| 222 | 222 | | (B) A certification that such memorandum 14 |
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| 223 | 223 | | of agreement— 15 |
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| 224 | 224 | | (i) requires sharing of costs of 16 |
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| 225 | 225 | | projects, including in-kind support, be-17 |
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| 226 | 226 | | tween the United States and Israel; 18 |
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| 227 | 227 | | (ii) establishes a framework to nego-19 |
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| 228 | 228 | | tiate the rights to any intellectual property 20 |
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| 229 | 229 | | developed under the memorandum of 21 |
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| 230 | 230 | | agreement; and 22 |
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| 231 | 231 | | (iii) requires the United States Gov-23 |
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| 232 | 232 | | ernment to receive semiannual reports on 24 |
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| 233 | 233 | | expenditure of funds, if any, by the Gov-25 |
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| 237 | 237 | | ernment of Israel, including a description 1 |
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| 238 | 238 | | of what the funds have been used for, 2 |
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| 239 | 239 | | when funds were expended, and an identi-3 |
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| 240 | 240 | | fication of entities that expended the 4 |
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| 241 | 241 | | funds. 5 |
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| 242 | 242 | | (c) L |
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| 243 | 243 | | EADAGENCY.—Not earlier than the date on 6 |
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| 244 | 244 | | which the Secretary of Defense submits the report re-7 |
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| 245 | 245 | | quired by subsection (b)(3), the Secretary of Defense shall 8 |
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| 246 | 246 | | designate the Irregular Warfare Technology Support Di-9 |
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| 247 | 247 | | rectorate as the lead agency of the Department of Defense 10 |
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| 248 | 248 | | in carrying out this section. 11 |
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| 249 | 249 | | (d) S |
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| 250 | 250 | | EMIANNUALREPORTS.—The Secretary of De-12 |
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| 251 | 251 | | fense shall submit to the appropriate committees of Con-13 |
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| 252 | 252 | | gress on a semiannual basis a report that contains a copy 14 |
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| 253 | 253 | | of the most recent semiannual report provided by the Gov-15 |
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| 254 | 254 | | ernment of Israel to the Department of Defense pursuant 16 |
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| 255 | 255 | | to subsection (b)(3)(B)(iii). 17 |
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| 256 | 256 | | (e) A |
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| 257 | 257 | | UTHORIZATION OF APPROPRIATIONS.—There is 18 |
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| 258 | 258 | | authorized to be appropriated $50,000,000 for each of fis-19 |
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| 259 | 259 | | cal years 2026 through 2030 to carry out the program 20 |
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| 260 | 260 | | under this section. 21 |
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| 261 | 261 | | SEC. 7. EXTENSION OF WAR RESERVES STOCKPILE AU-22 |
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| 262 | 262 | | THORITY. 23 |
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| 263 | 263 | | Section 12001(d) of the Department of Defense Ap-24 |
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| 264 | 264 | | propriations Act, 2005 (Public Law 108–287; 118 Stat. 25 |
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| 268 | 268 | | 1011) is amended by striking ‘‘after January 1, 2027’’ 1 |
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| 269 | 269 | | and inserting ‘‘after January 1 2029’’. 2 |
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| 270 | 270 | | SEC. 8. ESTABLISHMENT OF DEFENSE INNOVATION UNIT 3 |
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| 271 | 271 | | OFFICE IN ISRAEL. 4 |
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| 272 | 272 | | Not later than 180 days after the date of the enact-5 |
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| 273 | 273 | | ment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall establish 6 |
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| 274 | 274 | | in Israel a Defense Innovation Unit office — 7 |
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| 275 | 275 | | (1) to engage the Minister of Defense of Israel 8 |
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| 276 | 276 | | and representatives of the private sector in collabo-9 |
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| 277 | 277 | | rative efforts to counter development by Iran of 10 |
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| 278 | 278 | | dual-use defense technologies; and 11 |
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| 279 | 279 | | (2) to leverage resources and innovation activi-12 |
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| 280 | 280 | | ties of the United States and Israel for the benefit 13 |
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| 281 | 281 | | of the national security of the United States and 14 |
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| 282 | 282 | | Israel. 15 |
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| 283 | 283 | | SEC. 9. NATIONAL TECHNOLOGY INDUSTRIAL BASE. 16 |
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| 284 | 284 | | (a) I |
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| 285 | 285 | | NGENERAL.—Not later than 90 days after the 17 |
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| 286 | 286 | | date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense 18 |
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| 287 | 287 | | shall seek to engage the Minister of Defense of Israel in 19 |
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| 288 | 288 | | a discussion of the process of the ascension of Israel into 20 |
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| 289 | 289 | | the national technology and industrial base (as defined in 21 |
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| 290 | 290 | | section 4801 of title 10, United States Code). 22 |
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| 291 | 291 | | (b) P |
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| 292 | 292 | | ROTECTION OFSENSITIVEINFORMATION.—Any 23 |
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| 293 | 293 | | activity carried out pursuant to the authority provided by 24 |
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| 294 | 294 | | subsection (a) shall be conducted in a manner that appro-25 |
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| 299 | 299 | | curity interests of the United States and Israel. 2 |
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| 300 | 300 | | SEC. 10. ASSESSMENT OF INTEGRATED AIR AND MISSILE 3 |
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| 301 | 301 | | DEFENSE IN REGION COVERED BY UNITED 4 |
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| 302 | 302 | | STATES CENTRAL COMMAND. 5 |
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| 303 | 303 | | (a) A |
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| 304 | 304 | | SSESSMENTREQUIRED.—The Secretary of De-6 |
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| 305 | 305 | | fense shall conduct an assessment of the integrated air 7 |
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| 306 | 306 | | and missile defense in the region cover by United States 8 |
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| 307 | 307 | | Central Command. 9 |
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| 308 | 308 | | (b) E |
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| 309 | 309 | | LEMENTS.—The assessment conducted pursu-10 |
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| 310 | 310 | | ant to subsection (a) shall cover the following: 11 |
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| 311 | 311 | | (1) The current strength of the integrated air 12 |
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| 312 | 312 | | and missile defense in the region described in sub-13 |
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| 313 | 313 | | section (a). 14 |
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| 314 | 314 | | (2) How best to strengthen the integrated air 15 |
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| 315 | 315 | | and missile defense described in paragraph (1). 16 |
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| 316 | 316 | | (3) What would be required to expand or deep-17 |
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| 317 | 317 | | en cooperation among the United States, Israel, and 18 |
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| 318 | 318 | | other regional partners of the United States to 19 |
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| 319 | 319 | | achieve full operational capability of the integrated 20 |
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| 320 | 320 | | air and missile defense described in paragraph (1), 21 |
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| 321 | 321 | | including identification of the amount of funding 22 |
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| 322 | 322 | | and new legal authorities that may be required for 23 |
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| 323 | 323 | | such expansion or deepening. 24 |
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| 327 | 327 | | (c) CONSIDERATIONS.—In carrying out the assess-1 |
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| 328 | 328 | | ment required by subsection (a), the Secretary shall con-2 |
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| 329 | 329 | | sider the following: 3 |
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| 330 | 330 | | (1) The strategy required by section 1658(b) of 4 |
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| 331 | 331 | | James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization 5 |
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| 332 | 332 | | Act for Fiscal Year 2023 (Public Law 117–263). 6 |
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| 333 | 333 | | (2) Current cooperation among partners of the 7 |
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| 334 | 334 | | United States in the region described by subsection 8 |
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| 335 | 335 | | (a) on integrated air and missile defense. 9 |
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| 336 | 336 | | (3) Lessons learned in countering the April 13, 10 |
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| 337 | 337 | | 2024, and October 1, 2024, airstrikes by Iran 11 |
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| 338 | 338 | | against Israel. 12 |
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| 339 | 339 | | (d) R |
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| 340 | 340 | | EPORT.— 13 |
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| 341 | 341 | | (1) I |
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| 342 | 342 | | N GENERAL.—Not later than 180 days 14 |
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| 343 | 343 | | after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Sec-15 |
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| 344 | 344 | | retary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on 16 |
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| 345 | 345 | | Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Rep-17 |
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| 346 | 346 | | resentatives a report on the assessment conducted 18 |
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| 347 | 347 | | under this section. 19 |
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| 348 | 348 | | (2) F |
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| 349 | 349 | | ORM.—The report required by paragraph 20 |
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| 350 | 350 | | (1) shall be submitted in unclassified form but may 21 |
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| 351 | 351 | | contain a classified annex. 22 |
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