[Congressional Record Volume 171, Number 133 (Friday, August 1, 2025)]
[Senate]
[Page S5224]
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  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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