DEFEND Act of 2022
Official title: A bill to require the Secretary of Defense to seek to cooperate with allies and partners in the Middle East to identify an architecture and develop an acquisit… Show full official titleShow less
Official title: A bill to require the Secretary of Defense to seek to cooperate with allies and partners in the Middle East to identify an architecture and develop an acquisition approach for certain countries in the Middle East to implement an integrated air and missile defense capability to protect the people, infrastructure, and territory of such countries from cruise and ballistic missiles, manned and unmanned aerial system, and rocket attacks from Iran, and for other purposes.
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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations.
Deterring Enemy Forces and Enabling National Defenses Act of 2022 or the DEFEND Act of 2022
This bill requires the Department of Defense to seek to cooperate with Middle East allies and partners (i.e., countries of the Gulf Cooperation Council, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Egypt, and other countries in the region as appropriate) to identify and develop an approach for such allies and partners to implement an integrated air and missile defense capability to protect against attacks from Iran and groups linked to Iran.
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U.S. Congress. (2026). S. 4366: DEFEND Act of 2022. 117th Congress. Open America. https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-4366/
"S. 4366: DEFEND Act of 2022." 117th Congress, 2026, Open America, https://openamerica.io/bill/117-S-4366/.
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