H.R. 10859
Requires a Pentagon strategy on biotech threats
Would direct the Defense Secretary to build a strategy for countering foreign, mainly Chinese, biotechnology threats, and order an intelligence assessment and a group to screen foreign biotech investments.
- Strategy would be folded into the National Defense Strategy and Defense Planning Guidance
- Intelligence director would deliver an assessment of China's military biotech use within 180 days
- Creates a Biotechnology Risk Contact Group to review foreign investment in U.S. biotech firms
- Defense Secretary would report the strategy to Congress, with a classified annex allowed
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