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Code · BILL · 116th Congress · S. 4272 (Introduced in Senate) — To advance a policy for managed strategic competition with the People’s Republic of China. · Sec. 604

Sec. 604. Report on capability development of Indo-Pacific allies and partners

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It is the sense of Congress that— the Secretary of State should expand and strengthen existing measures under the United States Conventional Arms Transfer Policy to provide capabilities to allies and partners, prioritizing allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region in accordance with United States strategic imperatives; the United States should design for export to Indo-Pacific allies and partners capabilities critical to maintaining a favorable military balance in the region, including long-range precision fires, air and missile defense systems, anti-ship cruise missiles, land attack cruise missiles, conventional hypersonic systems, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance capabilities, and command and control systems; the United States should pursue, to the maximum extent possible, anticipatory technology security and foreign disclosure policy on the systems described in paragraph (2); and the Secretary of State should— urge allies and partners to invest in sufficient quantities of munitions to meet contingency requirements and avoid the need for accessing United States stocks in wartime; and cooperate with allies to deliver such munitions, or when necessary, to increase allies’ capacity to produce such munitions.
In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate ; the Committee on Armed Services of the Senate ; the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives ; and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives . Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, shall submit a report to the appropriate congressional committees that— describes United States priorities for building more capable security partners in the Indo-Pacific region; and identifies legal, regulatory, or other obstacles to advancing such priorities.
The report required under paragraph
(1)shall— provide a priority list of defense and military capabilities that Indo-Pacific allies and partners must possess for the United States to be able to achieve its military objectives in the Indo-Pacific region; identify, from the list referred to in subparagraph (A), the capabilities that are best provided, or can only be provided, by the United States; identify— actions required to prioritize United States Government resources and personnel to expedite fielding the capabilities identified in subparagraph (B); and steps needed to fully account for and a plan to integrate all means of United States foreign military sales, direct commercial sales, security assistance, and all applicable authorities of the Department of State and the Department of Defense; assess the requirements for United States security assistance, including International Military Education and Training, in the Indo-Pacific region, as a part of the means to deliver critical partner capability requirements identified in subparagraph (B); assess the resources necessary to meet the requirements for United States security assistance, and identify resource gaps; assess the major obstacles to fulfilling requirements for United States security assistance in the Indo-Pacific region, including resources and personnel limits, legislative and policy barriers, and factors related to specific partner countries; identify limitations on the United States ability to provide such capabilities, including those identified under subparagraph (B), because of existing United States treaty obligations, or United States law, policies, or other regulations; recommend changes to existing laws, regulations, or other policies that would reduce or eliminate limitations on providing critical capabilities to allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region; identify requirements to streamline the International Trafficking in Arms Regulations (22 C.F.R. 120 et seq.) that would enable more effective delivery of capabilities to allies and partners in the Indo-Pacific region; recommend improvements to the process for developing requirements for partners capabilities; and recommend other legal, regulatory, or policy changes that would improve delivery timelines. The report required under this subsection shall be unclassified, but may include a classified annex.
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