U.S.-Taiwan Defense Innovation Partnership Act

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

<DOC>






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.


_______________________________________________________________________


                    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

_______________________________________________________________________

                                 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.
                                 <all>