Purposes

The purposes of this Act are to— (1) strengthen cooperation between the United States and allied and partner countries in strategic sectors, including critical minerals, energy, advanced manufacturing, telecommunications, and emerging technologies; (2) promote secure and resilient supply chains that reduce reliance on foreign adversaries and advance the economic and national security interests of the United States; (3) support the exploration, extraction, processing, refining, recycling, buffer, stock building, and responsible use of critical minerals and rare earth elements through international partnerships and public-private collaboration; (4) advance research, development, innovation, and commercialization in critical and emerging technologies and strengthen United States industrial competitiveness by supporting the development, scaling, and export of United States technologies standards, and industrial capabilities to allied and partner markets; (5) expand workforce development, technical training, educational exchanges, and capacity-building programs to strengthen the industrial and technological capabilities of the United States and its allied and partner countries; (6) enhance the energy and resource security of allied and partner countries through diversification, responsible resource development, environmental stewardship, and efforts to combat illicit mining, forced labor, child labor, corruption, and other destabilizing practices; (7) facilitate strategic investment, financing, and technical assistance for projects that advance shared economic and national security objectives; and (8) strengthen coordination among governments, private industry, academic institutions, research organizations, and other stakeholders to enhance collective resilience and counter malign influence by foreign adversaries.