Sec. 30227. 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 consistent with agreed-on division of responsibility for alliance roles, missions and capabilities, 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 consistent with law, regulation, policy, and international commitments; the United States should pursue, to the maximum extent possible, anticipatory technology security and foreign disclosure policy on the systems described in paragraph (2); the Secretary of State, in coordination with the Secretary of Defense, 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; and it is in the United States interest to not authorize arms transfers or security cooperation to governments that demonstrate patterns of gross violations of human rights if such arms or security cooperation could be used to commit or support such violations.
In this section, the term appropriate committees of Congress means— the Committee on Foreign Relations, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives. Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of State, in consultation with the Secretary of Defense, shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report that describes United States priorities for building more capable security partners in the Indo-Pacific region.
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 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, foreign legislative and policy barriers, and factors related to specific partner countries; identify limitations on the ability of the United States to provide such capabilities, including capabilities identified under subparagraph (B), because of existing United States treaty obligations, United States policies, including sections 502B and 620M of the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2304 and 2378d), or other regulations; recommend improvements to the process for developing requirements for United States partner capabilities; and identify required jointly agreed recommendations for infrastructure and posture, based on any ongoing mutual dialogues. The report required under this subsection shall be unclassified, but may include a classified annex.
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