U.S.-Taiwan Defense Innovation Partnership Act
Summary
What This Bill Does
The U.S.-Taiwan Defense Innovation Partnership Act is a short defense-industrial coordination bill. It tells the Defense Secretary to seek a partnership between the Department of Defense and appropriate Taiwan counterparts. The goals are to expand market opportunities for U.S.-based and Taiwan-based defense technology companies, strengthen Taiwan's defense industrial base, coordinate defense-industrial priorities, streamline emerging technology research and development, create pathways to market for defense startups, and jointly develop dual-use defense capabilities. The named technology areas are drones, microchips, directed-energy weapons, artificial intelligence, missile technology, and intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance technology. The bill is aimed at countering the Chinese Communist Party and aligned proxy groups developing dual-use defense technologies.
Who Benefits and How
U.S. defense technology companies benefit from government-backed pathways to the Taiwan defense market. Taiwan defense technology companies benefit from deeper coordination with the Department of Defense and U.S. firms. Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense benefits from a structured channel for emerging-technology cooperation. Defense startups benefit if the partnership creates faster routes from research and development to procurement markets. Taiwan's defense industrial base benefits from collaboration on drones, microchips, missiles, artificial intelligence, directed energy, and ISR systems.
Who Bears the Burden and How
The Defense Secretary must pursue and manage the bilateral partnership. Defense Department innovation offices must coordinate priorities, research pathways, and market-access work with Taiwan counterparts. Chinese Communist Party military technology programs face a more coordinated U.S.-Taiwan response. U.S. export-control and security-review officials may need to evaluate dual-use technology cooperation more often.
Key Provisions
- Directs the Defense Secretary to seek a defense industrial partnership with Taiwan.
- Creates market and research-development coordination for U.S. and Taiwan defense technology companies.
- Strengthens dual-use defense technology work in drones, microchips, directed energy, artificial intelligence, missiles, and ISR.
- Uses the partnership as a response to Chinese Communist Party-aligned dual-use defense technology development.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Directs the Defense Secretary to seek a United States-Taiwan defense industrial partnership that expands market opportunities for U.S. and Taiwan defense technology companies, coordinates with Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense, and develops dual-use capabilities such as drones, microchips, directed-energy weapons, artificial intelligence, missiles, and intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance systems.
Key Policy Areas
Defense, Taiwan, Industrial Policy
Primary Purpose
Directs the Defense Secretary to seek a United States-Taiwan defense industrial partnership that expands market opportunities for U.S. and Taiwan defense technology companies, coordinates with Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense, and develops dual-use capabilities such as drones, microchips, directed-energy weapons, artificial intelligence, missiles, and intelligence-surveillance-reconnaissance systems.
Policy Domains
Resolution provisions
Identified Gains
- U.S. defense technology companies
- Taiwan defense technology companies
- Taiwan Ministry of National Defense
- Defense startups
- Taiwan defense industrial base
Identified Costs
- Defense Secretary
- Defense Department innovation offices
- Chinese military technology programs
- Export-control officials
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeMr. Nunn of Iowa (for himself, Ms. Tokuda, Mr. Moolenaar, …
Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition …
Introduced in House
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Defense Department innovation offices, Defense startups, Taiwan defense technology companies
Positive-direction: Defense startups, Taiwan defense technology companies, U.S. defense technology companies
Negative-direction: Defense Department innovation offices
Export-control officials, Taiwan Ministry of National Defense
Positive-direction: Taiwan Ministry of National Defense
Negative-direction: Export-control officials
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
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