United States-Israel Defense Partnership Act of 2025

Enhanced Security against Unmanned Threats: The establishment of the United States-Israel Counter-Unmanned Systems Program aims to develop and deploy advanced technologies to counter threats from unmanned systems (Section 3).

Development of Advanced Technologies: The bill promotes collaboration in emerging fields such as artificial intelligence, cybersecurity, robotics, quantum, and automation to meet defense challenges (Section 6).

Increased Operational Readiness: The program includes joint training exercises intended to enhance the operational readiness of personnel from both the United States and Israel (Section 3).

Strengthened Regional Defense: The bill directs an assessment to determine how to best strengthen and expand integrated air and missile defense in the region covered by United States Central Command (Section 10).

Significant Financial Costs: The bill authorizes substantial amounts of money to be spent, including $150,000,000 annually for the Counter-Unmanned Systems Program and $50,000,000 annually for the Emerging Defense Technology Capabilities Program (Section 3 and Section 6).

Requirement for Cost Sharing: Under the emerging technology program, the memorandum of agreement must require the sharing of project costs between the United States and Israel (Section 6).