“A bill to require the Secretary of Defense to submit annual reports on allied contributions to the common defense, and for other purposes.”
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This section requires the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with other relevant federal agency heads, to submit to the appropriate congressional committees by March 1 of each year an unclassified report (with a classified annex, if necessary, and available to any Member of Congress on request) on the defense contributions of NATO member countries and countries participating in a NATO Membership Action Plan. For each such country, the report describes (1) annual defense spending (nominal amount and as a percentage of GDP for the prior fiscal year), any changes during that year, and anticipated spending for the next year; (2) contributions to military or stability operations involving U.S. forces (including limitations on use and U.S. or allied actions to minimize them); (3) contributions to Ukraine (hard or soft power); (4) defense industrial base health and comparative advantages; (5) military force size, structure, and estimated full mobilization time; (6) dependencies on allied military assets; and (7) Foreign Military Sales or Financing program deliveries or contracts in the prior year. The section includes congressional findings referencing the annual allied contribution report required by section 1003 of the Department of Defense Authorization Act, 1985, and a sense of Congress on U.S. burden-sharing priorities with NATO allies amid near-peer threats.