HR8053119th Congress
DPA Emerging Technology Act of 2026
Sponsored By: Representative Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8]
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Summary
Creates a Subcommittee on Emerging Technology within the Defense Production Act Committee to coordinate and analyze technologies that matter to national defense. It would also set meeting rules, let the committee chair form extra subcommittees, and fix a short-title citation for the Act.
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- Federal agencies: Members of the Defense Production Act Committee would be required to meet at least twice per year and could be grouped into extra subcommittees to improve cross-agency coordination on defense-related technology efforts.
- Tech sectors and defense planners: The Subcommittee on Emerging Technology would define what counts as "covered technology" and analyze effects, benefits, and risks across fields such as artificial intelligence and robotics, biotechnology, cryptography and quantum computing, materials science, semiconductors, and space.
- Biomanufacturing and supply chains: The subcommittee must report to Congress within 18 months on the benefits, drawbacks, and resources needed to establish a strategic reserve of critical biomanufacturing for national defense.
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Sponsors & CoSponsors
Sponsor
Lynch, Stephen F. [D-MA-8]
MA • D
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