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117TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 5302 
To amend the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National Defense Authorization 
Act for Fiscal Year 2021 establish a United States-Israel Operations- 
Technology Working Group and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
SEPTEMBER 20, 2021 
Mr. WILSON of South Carolina (for himself, Mr. SCHNEIDER, and Mrs. MUR-
PHY of Florida) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committee on For-
eign Affairs, for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, 
in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the juris-
diction of the committee concerned 
A BILL 
To amend the William M. (Mac) Thornberry National De-
fense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 establish 
a United States-Israel Operations-Technology Working 
Group and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘U.S.-Israel Military 
Technology Cooperation Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. MODIFICATION OF UNITED STATES-ISRAEL OPER-
ATIONS-TECHNOLOGY COOPERATION WITH 
THE UNITED STATES-ISRAEL DEFENSE AC-
QUISITION ADVISORY GROUP. 
Section 1299M of the William M. (Mac) Thornberry 
National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2021 
(Public Law 116–283) is amended— 
(1) by striking the section heading and insert-
ing ‘‘ESTABLISHMENT
OF
UNITED
STATES- 
ISRAEL
OPERATIONS-TECHNOLOGY
WORKING 
GROUP’’; 
(2) by amending subsection (a) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(a) REQUIREMENT.— 
‘‘(1) IN GENERAL.—The Secretary of Defense, 
in consultation with the Secretary of State, shall 
take actions within the United States-Israel Defense 
Acquisition Advisory Group— 
‘‘(A) to provide a standing forum for the 
United States and Israel to systematically share 
intelligence-informed military capability require-
ments; 
‘‘(B) to identify military capability require-
ments common to the Department of Defense 
and the Ministry of Defense of Israel; 
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‘‘(C) to assist defense suppliers in the 
United States and Israel by assessing rec-
ommendations from such defense suppliers with 
respect to joint science, technology, research, 
development, test, evaluation, and production 
efforts; and 
‘‘(D) to develop, as feasible and advisable, 
combined United States-Israel plans to re-
search, develop, procure, and field weapon sys-
tems and military capabilities as quickly and 
economically as possible to meet common capa-
bility requirements of the Department and the 
Ministry of Defense of Israel. 
‘‘(2) RULE
OF
CONSTRUCTION.—Nothing in 
this subsection shall be construed as requiring the 
termination of any existing United States defense 
activity, group, program, or partnership with 
Israel.’’; 
(3) by amending subsection (c) to read as fol-
lows: 
‘‘(c) ESTABLISHMENT OF UNITED STATES-ISRAEL 
OPERATIONS-TECHNOLOGY
WORKING
GROUP
WITHIN 
THE UNITED STATES-ISRAEL DEFENSE ACQUISITION AD-
VISORY GROUP.— 
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