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U.S.-Taiwan Defense Innovation Partnership Act
To direct the Secretary of Defense to establish a strategic partnership with the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense to coordinate defense industrial priorities, expand defense technology cooperation, deter regional adversaries, and for other purposes.
Summary
This bill directs the Secretary of Defense to establish a strategic partnership with Taiwan's Ministry of National Defense to coordinate defense industrial priorities and expand defense technology cooperation. The partnership aims to enhance market opportunities for U.S. and Taiwan-based defense technology companies, strengthen Taiwan's defense industrial base, and harmonize security posture through emerging technologies. The bill calls for coordination on research and development of emerging defense technologies, creating pathways to market for defense technology startups, and collaborative development of dual-use defense capabilities including drones, microchips, directed energy weapons, artificial intelligence, missile technology, and intelligence and surveillance systems. The partnership is intended to counter adversarial development of dual-use defense technologies.
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Sponsor (1)
- Rep. Nunn, Zachary [R-IA-3] (R-IA)
6 cosponsors
Money behind the sponsor
Top reported contributors to Zachary Nunn’s campaign committee (2024 cycle) — who funds the bill’s sponsor, not a claim about this bill. Data from FEC.
- NULL $397,838
- MARQUIS MANAGEMENT INC. $16,550
- BRODIE GENERATIONAL CAPITAL PARTNERS $16,500
- STARKEY HEARING TECHNOLOGIES $13,200
- APOLLO GLOBAL MGMT $13,000
Organizations whose employees gave the most — itemized individual contributions grouped by the donor’s reported employer (FEC Schedule A). Full finance for Zachary Nunn → · Outside spending →
Actions (2)
- Aug 1, 2025 Referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned. · house
- Aug 1, 2025 Introduced in House
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Full text
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
August 1, 2025
Mr. Nunn of Iowa (for himself, Ms. Tokuda, Mr. Moolenaar, and Mrs. Hinson) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Committee on Armed Services, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned
A BILL
To direct the Secretary of Defense to establish a strategic partnership with the Taiwan Ministry of National Defense to coordinate defense industrial priorities, expand defense technology cooperation, deter regional adversaries, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “U.S.-Taiwan Defense Innovation Partnership Act”.
SEC. 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. <all>
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