United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025
Current understanding
The United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025 would direct DOD to establish joint counter-unmanned systems development programs, stand up a Defense Innovation Unit (DIU) office in Israel, and pursue Israel’s inclusion in the National Technology and Industrial Base (NTIB), while authorizing joint AI and robotics RDT&E and extending anti-tunnel/counter-UAS RDT&E and War Reserve Stockpile transfer authorities through 2028–2029. For DOD components and U.S. defense contractors, the bill formalizes new bilateral R&D pathways in AI, robotics, and counter-drone tech; for the emerging-tech policy area it links AI/autonomous systems governance to an allied industrial-base and forward-deployed innovation posture. Status: introduced.
Evidence log
- 2026-06-08 — Responsible Artificial Intelligence Defense Act of 2026: cross-connection with responsible-ai-defense-act-2026: Bilateral defense-AI cooperation authorized in the U.S.-Israel Defense Partnership Act would occur against the backdrop of any responsible-AI-in-defense statutory framework created by S4707. (novelty: 3)
- 2025-02-12 — United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025: cross-connection with counter-uas-technology-governance: The Act creates statutory joint U.S.-Israel counter-UAS technology development programs and extends counter-UAS RDT&E authorities, tying bilateral defense cooperation to domestic counter-UAS governance. (novelty: 3)