S.Amdt. 3429

SA 3429. Ms. ERNST submitted an amendment intended to be proposed by
her to the bill S. 2296, to authorize appropriations for fiscal year
2026 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:

At the end of subtitle D of title XII, add the following:

SEC. 1241. STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP ON DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL
PRIORITIES BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND
TAIWAN.

The Secretary of Defense shall seek to establish a
partnership between the Defense Innovation Unit of the
Department of Defense and appropriate counterparts of
Taiwan--
(1) to enhance market opportunities for United States-based
and Taiwan-based defense technology companies;
(2) to bolster Taiwan's defense industrial base;
(3) to harmonize global security posture through emerging
technology;
(4) to counter the development, by the Chinese Communist
Party and adversarial proxy groups aligned with the Chinese
Communist Party, of dual-use defense technologies; and
(5) in coordination with appropriate counterpart offices of
the Ministry of National Defense of Taiwan--
(A) to enable coordination on defense industrial
priorities;
(B) to streamline emerging defense technology research and
development;
(C) to establish, for defense technology startups, more
pathways to market; and
(D) to collaborate on the coordinated development of dual-
use defense capabilities, such as the following:
(i) Drones.
(ii) Microchips.
(iii) Directed energy weapons.
(iv) Artificial intelligence.
(v) Missile technology.
(vi) Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance
technology.
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