Sec. 1242. Strategic partnership on defense industrial priorities between the United States and Taiwan
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The Secretary of Defense shall seek to establish a partnership between the Defense Innovation Unit of the Department of Defense and appropriate counterparts of Taiwan— to enhance market opportunities for United States-based and Taiwan-based defense technology companies; to bolster Taiwan’s defense industrial base; to harmonize global security posture through emerging technology; to counter the development, by the Chinese Communist Party and adversarial proxy groups aligned with the Chinese Communist Party, of dual-use defense technologies; and in coordination with appropriate counterpart offices of the Ministry of National Defense of Taiwan— to enable coordination on defense industrial priorities; to streamline emerging defense technology research and development; to establish, for defense technology startups, more pathways to market; and to collaborate on the coordinated development of dual-use defense capabilities, such as the following:
Drones. Microchips. Directed energy weapons. Artificial intelligence. Missile technology. Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance technology.