Sec. 1207. Strategy for security cooperation
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Not later than 1 year after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of State, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a strategy to improve security partner cooperation, increase the safety of United States personnel in partner countries, and increase the safety of the personnel of such countries, by working to improve partner military operations. Such strategy shall seek to advance accurate targeting and avoid unintentionally targeting civilians or life-sustaining civilian infrastructure, which has the potential to put United States and partner country personnel in life-threatening danger by radicalizing local populations, and shall include improvements to the ability of partner countries with respect to— intelligence collection, evaluation, and dissemination, including by improving the evaluation of hostile intent and discernment between hostile intent and hostile action; and the evaluation and accuracy of determining correct targets by increasing understanding of civilian populations, population centers, and local civilian infrastructure such as water systems infrastructure, food infrastructure, and education and health care infrastructure.
In this section, the term appropriate congressional committees means— the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives; and the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate.