Section 1. Short title
This Act may be cited as the U.S.-Taiwan Defense Innovation Partnership Act.
Section 2. Strategic partnership on defense industrial priorities between the United States and Taiwan
The Secretary of Defense shall seek to establish a partnership between the Department of Defense and appropriate counterparts of Taiwan in order to—
(1) enhance market opportunities for United States-based and Taiwan-based defense technology companies;
(2) bolster Taiwan’s defense industrial base;
(3) harmonize global security posture through emerging technology;
(4) counter the Chinese Communist Party and Chinese Communist Party-aligned adversarial proxy group development of dual-use defense technologies; and
(5) in coordination with appropriate counterpart offices of the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense—
(A) enable coordination on defense industrial priorities;
(B) streamline emerging defense technology research and development;
(C) create more pathways to market for defense technology startups; and
(D) collaborate on the coordinated development of dual-use defense capabilities, such as the following:
(i) Drones.
(ii) Microchips.
(iii) Directed energy weapons.
(iv) Artificial Intelligence.
(v) Missile technology.
(vi) Intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance technology.