H.R. 10796 — United States-Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Act

This section establishes the United States–Israel Defense Technology Cooperation Initiative. It directs the Secretary of Defense to designate an executive agent to synchronize bilateral defense technology research, development, testing, evaluation, and industrial cooperation in domains including counter-unmanned systems, anti-tunneling, missile and air defense, artificial intelligence, directed energy, cyber defense, biotechnology, and contested logistics. The Secretary must coordinate with the Secretaries of State and Commerce and other agencies, provide an interim briefing to the congressional defense committees within 180 days, submit annual reports thereafter, and post periodic unclassified updates on a Department of Defense website.