119-hr4860

[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4860 Introduced in House

    (IH) ]

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119th CONGRESS
 1st Session
 H. R. 4860

To direct the Secretary of Defense to establish a strategic partnership 
 with the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense to coordinate defense 
 industrial priorities, expand defense technology cooperation, deter 
 regional adversaries, and for other purposes.

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 IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

 August 1, 2025

 Mr. Nunn of Iowa (for himself, Ms. Tokuda, Mr. Moolenaar, and Mrs. 
 Hinson) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed 
Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in 
 each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the 
 jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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 A BILL

To direct the Secretary of Defense to establish a strategic partnership 
 with the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense to coordinate defense 
 industrial priorities, expand defense technology cooperation, deter 
 regional adversaries, and for other purposes.

 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

 This Act may be cited as the ``U.S.-Taiwan Defense Innovation 
Partnership Act''.

SEC. 2. STRATEGIC PARTNERSHIP ON DEFENSE INDUSTRIAL PRIORITIES BETWEEN 
 THE UNITED STATES AND TAIWAN.

 The Secretary of Defense shall seek to establish a partnership 
between the Department of Defense and appropriate counterparts of 
Taiwan in order to--

    (1) enhance market opportunities for United States-based 
 and Taiwan-based defense technology companies;

    (2) bolster Taiwan's defense industrial base;

    (3) harmonize global security posture through emerging 
 technology;

    (4) counter the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese 
 Communist Party-aligned adversarial proxy group development of 
 dual-use defense technologies; and

    (5) in coordination with appropriate counterpart offices of 
 the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense--
        (A) enable coordination on defense industrial 
 priorities;
        (B) streamline emerging defense technology research 
 and development;
            (C) create more pathways to market for defense 
 technology startups; and
            (D) 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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