The US Senate proposed to require the President to expand the exchange of intelligence with Israel and to specifically justify its reduction. Amendment SA 6,574 to the Defense Act of 2027 allows for a waiver on a specific national security basis determined by the President. The decision will have to be put in writing and reported to the congressional intelligence committees within 15 days. Support for Israel has to suffer a political chill until the administration can justify its refusal.
Regarding countries that normalized relations with Israel as part of the Abraham Accords, there is a different rule: upon discovery of a recipient's intelligence or technological ties to a hostile power, the Director of National Intelligence must limit all access to that exchange. In the Israeli section, the reduction depends on the president's decision. Israel has an additional protection against the termination of the exchange.
At the same time, section 219 of the House version requires the appointment of a Pentagon official responsible for promoting Israeli and joint technologies suitable for American weapons programs. Her responsibilities include translating developments into procurement and organizing manufacturing in the United States through licenses and joint ventures. The Israeli defense industry receives an internal official charged with promoting cooperation. Section 1,217 of the Senate also provides for such an initiative, but without the requirement to appoint such a coordinator.
Retired US Army Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of State Colin Powell, called the plot the legalization of the betrayal of Jonathan Pollard, a naval intelligence analyst who passed secrets to Israel. The source's account of his conversation with host Clayton Morris names Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman and Boeing where the colonel believes Israeli access will increase. That's Wilkerson's damn assessment.