Sec. 1246. Report on how to protect United States defense technology sold to foreign partners
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Within 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Director of National Intelligence and the Secretary of State, shall prepare and submit (in such manner as the Secretary of Defense may decide) to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Armed Services, and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence of the House of Representatives a written report that outlines how the Secretary of Defense will prevent unauthorized users of United States defense technology sold or transferred to foreign partners and allies of the United States under the foreign military sales program or any other authority available to the United States from accessing sensitive information about the technical capabilities and limitations of the technology, and includes— a specification of the threat that intellectual technology hardware originating in the People’s Republic of China poses to United States defense technology; a description of the steps our foreign partners have taken to mitigate the threat; an overview of the ability of the defense industrial base to understand and address that threat; and recommendations for changes to policy, regulation, and statute to address that threat.