S. 2599 — A bill to provide for modifications to the State Partnership Program selection analysis.

This section directs the Secretary of Defense to revise Department of Defense Instruction 5111.20 (or successor), which implements the State Partnership Program under 10 U.S.C. §341, to require the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, in conducting selection analysis for new partnerships, to (1) consider the number of current partnerships assigned to a state's National Guard and (2) give preference to states with only one active assigned country. (The State Partnership Program pairs National Guard units of a state or territory with foreign militaries, security forces, or disaster-response organizations to advance U.S. security cooperation objectives.)