3.0.0 4366 2022-12-29T17:33:53Z 2022-12-29T17:33:53Z Senate S 2022-06-09 117 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Standing Referred to 2022-06-09T16:17:28Z DEFEND Act of 2022 117 7987 HR 2022-06-08 Referred to the Subcommittee on Middle East, North Africa and Global Counterterrorism. Identical bill CRS James M. Inhofe National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2023 117 4543 S 2022-07-18 Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 445. Related bill CRS 2022-06-09 ssfr00 Foreign Relations Committee Senate Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. IntroReferral 2022-06-09 Introduced in Senate IntroReferral 10000 9 Library of Congress E000295 Sen. Ernst, Joni [R-IA] Joni Ernst R IA N R000608 Sen. Rosen, Jacky [D-NV] Jacklyn Rosen D NV 2022-06-09 True L000575 Sen. Lankford, James [R-OK] James Lankford R OK 2022-06-09 True B001288 Sen. Booker, Cory A. [D-NJ] Cory Booker D NJ 2022-06-09 True G000386 Sen. Grassley, Chuck [R-IA] Charles Grassley R IA E. 2022-06-16 False G000555 Sen. Gillibrand, Kirsten E. [D-NY] Kirsten Gillibrand D NY E. 2022-09-07 False S001184 Sen. Scott, Tim [R-SC] Tim Scott R SC 2022-09-07 False C001113 Sen. Cortez Masto, Catherine [D-NV] Catherine Cortez Masto D NV 2022-09-07 False R000595 Sen. Rubio, Marco [R-FL] Marco Rubio R FL 2022-09-07 False International Affairs International Affairs 00 2022-06-09 Introduced in Senate 2022-12-06T15:59:38Z Deterring Enemy Forces and Enabling National Defenses Act of 2022 or the DEFEND Act of 2022

This bill requires the Department of Defense to seek to cooperate with Middle East allies and partners (i.e., countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, and other countries in the region as appropriate) to identify and develop an approach for such allies and partners to implement an integrated air and missile defense capability to protect against attacks from Iran and groups linked to Iran.

]]> DEFEND Act of 2022 Display Title DEFEND Act of 2022 Short Title(s) as Introduced DEFEND Act of 2022 Introduced in Senate IS Short Title(s) as Introduced Deterring Enemy Forces and Enabling National Defenses Act of 2022 Introduced in Senate IS Official Title as Introduced A bill to require the Secretary of Defense to seek to cooperate with allies and partners in the Middle East to identify an architecture and develop an acquisition approach for certain countries in the Middle East to implement an integrated air and missile defense capability to protect the people, infrastructure, and territory of such countries from cruise and ballistic missiles, manned and unmanned aerial system, and rocket attacks from Iran, and for other purposes. Introduced in Senate IS Introduced in Senate 2022-06-09T04:00:00Z https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/BILLS-117s4366is/xml/BILLS-117s4366is.xml 2022-06-09 Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. text/xml EN Pursuant to Title 17 Section 105 of the United States Code, this file is not subject to copyright protection and is in the public domain. Congressional Research Service, Library of Congress This file contains bill summaries and statuses for federal legislation. A bill summary describes the most significant provisions of a piece of legislation and details the effects the legislative text may have on current law and federal programs. Bill summaries are authored by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) of the Library of Congress. As stated in Public Law 91-510 (2 USC 166 (d)(6)), one of the duties of CRS is "to prepare summaries and digests of bills and resolutions of a public general nature introduced in the Senate or House of Representatives". For more information, refer to the User Guide that accompanies this file.