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Download official Senate Record PDFReturn to issue contextSA 6139. Mr. VAN HOLLEN submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by him to the bill S. 4784, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2027 for military activities of the Department of Defense, for military construction, and for defense activities of the Department of Energy, to prescribe military personnel strengths for such fiscal year, and for other purposes; which was ordered to lie on the table; as follows:
Strike section 845.
Strike section 1217 and insert the following:
SEC. 1217. STUDY ON ISRAEL DEFENSE TECHNOLOGY COOPERATION
INITIATIVE.
(a) Study Required.—The Secretary of Defense, along with
the Director of National Intelligence, shall conduct a
feasibility study on synchronizing bilateral defense
technology cooperative efforts between the United States and
Israel.
(b) Elements.—The study under required under subsection
(a) shall include the following:
(1) A cost-benefit analysis, including the projected fiscal
costs, of establishing an initiative to expand and accelerate
bilateral defense technology research, development, testing,
evaluation, integration, and industrial cooperation with
Israel including by—
(A) identifying jointly developed or Israeli-origin
technologies with operational utility for integration into
United States systems and programs of record;
(B) conducting collaborative research initiatives involving
government, private sector, and academic institutions in the
United States and Israel, in a manner that protects sensitive
technology and information and the national security
interests of the United States and Israel;
(C) facilitating the transition of technologies from
research and development into procurement and acquisition
pathways;
(D) establishing frameworks for joint ventures, licensing
agreements, and United States based co-production or
manufacturing partnerships with Israeli industry;
(E) coordinating with relevant Department of Defense
components, including the Irregular Warfare Technical Support
Directorate, capability development and innovation divisions,
the Defense Innovation Unit, the United States-Israel
Operations Technology Working Group, the Defense Advanced
Research Projects Agency, the Missile Defense Agency, the
United States Space Command, and the military services, to
align efforts and avoid duplication; and
(F) promoting joint training exercises and information-
sharing mechanisms to enhance operational readiness to deploy
jointly developed technologies.
(2) An evaluation of whether and how United States national
security interests are served through the elements described
in paragraph (1) on domain areas described in subsection (c)
and how those determinations were made.
(3) An analysis of existing initiatives to expand and
accelerate bilateral defense technology research,
development, testing, evaluation, integration, and industrial
cooperation with NATO countries, Japan, the United Kingdom,
Australia, and any other treaty allies in domain areas
described in subsection (c).
(4) An assessment of existing cooperation with Israel on
any bilateral defense technology research, development,
testing, evaluation, integration, coproduction agreements,
and industrial cooperation on domain areas described in
subsection (c), including whether any jointly developed
technologies or systems allow one of the parties to prevent
the other from using or transferring the technology.
(5) An assessment of counterintelligence risks associated
with entering into any bilateral defense technology research,
development, testing, evaluation, integration, and industrial
cooperation with Israel on the domain areas referenced in
subsection (c).
(c) Domain Areas.—Specific efforts for expansion to be
analyzed in the study required under subsection (a) should
include the following domain areas:
(1) Counter-Unmanned Systems, including aerial, maritime,
and ground platforms.
(2) Anti-tunneling and subterranean threats.
(3) Missile and air defense technologies, including Golden
Dome for America.
(4) Artificial intelligence, quantum, machine learning, and
autonomous systems.
(5) Directed energy and advanced sensing.
(6) Cyber defense, electronic warfare, and digital
resilience.
(7) Biotechnology, biomanufacturing, and medical defense.
(8) Network integration, data fusion, and contested
logistics.
(9) Defense industrial base cooperation, manufacturing, and
co-production.
(10) Other emerging technologies as jointly agreed by the
United States and Israel.
(d) Report.—
(1) In general.—Not later than one year after the date of
the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall
submit to the appropriate congressional committees an
unclassified report on the results of the study conducted
under this section.
(2) Appropriate congressional committees defined.—In this
subsection, the term “appropriate congressional committees”
means—
(A) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Foreign Relations of the Senate; and
(B) the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on
Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives.