Sec. 1274. REPORT ON THE POTENTIAL FOR COOPERATION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL ON DIRECTED ENERGY CAPABILITIES

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## SEC. 1274 REPORT ON THE POTENTIAL FOR COOPERATION BETWEEN THE UNITED STATES AND ISRAEL ON DIRECTED ENERGY CAPABILITIES ###

(a)Report Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the potential for cooperative development by the United States and Israel of a directed energy capability to defeat ballistic missiles, cruise missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, mortars, and improvised explosive devices that threaten the United States, deployed forces of the United States, or Israel. The report shall include the following: ####

(1)An assessment of the technological maturity of United States and Israeli directed energy capabilities to defeat adversary threat systems. ####

(2)An assessment of the respective military capability gaps of each country that such directed energy developments could address. ####

(3)An assessment of the opportunities for the United States and Israel to cooperate to develop directed energy capabilities to defeat adversary threat systems, including estimated costs of pursuing such opportunities. ####

(4)An assessment of whether such opportunities should be pursued, including any potential risks from the pursuit of such opportunities. ####

(5)Any other matters the Secretary considers appropriate. ###

(b)Form The report shall be submitted in unclassified form, but may include a classified annex. ###

(c)Appropriate Committees of Congress Defined In this section, the term “appropriate committees of Congress” means— ####

(1)the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate; and ####

(2)the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and the Committee on Appropriations of the House of Representatives.