Support and work to pass legislation directing the Department of Defense to create a strategy and implementation plan to advance cyber cooperation with Indo-Pacific allies and partners, including partner cyber offensive capacity and cybersecurity resilience.

Tammy Duckworth · Illinois · Democratic

policy impact 0.62 specificity 0.84 extraction confidence 93%

Commitment kind: unknown. Promised action: not established. Promised outcome: not established. Deadline: unknown; not assumed expired.

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Protect our interests in the Indo-Pacific from cyber threats and help our partners become cyber force multipliers for our military by directing DoD to construct a holistic strategy and implementation plan to advance cyber cooperation between DoD and Indo-Pacific allies and partners, including enhancing partner capacity in cyber offensive operations and cybersecurity resilience.

Duckworth highlighted an advanced provision requiring a DoD cyber cooperation strategy and implementation plan for Indo-Pacific allies and partners.

Duckworth Secures Key Provisions to Strengthen Our National Security and Coordination with Partners in the Indo-Pacific Region
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Evidence

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Mr. Rounds, for himself and Ms. Duckworth, introduced S. 5211 on August 3, 2026; it was read twice and referred to the Committee on Foreign Relations. The bill requires DOD leaders to develop, submit, and begin implementing a strategy to enhance cyber cooperation with Indo-Pacific allies and partners, including defensive and offensive cyber operations, cybersecurity capacity, cyber resilience, capability gaps, funding, and implementation reporting.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): Duckworth took concrete legislative action after the FY27 NDAA vehicle stalled by joining a standalone bill that closely matches the promise. The bill remains referred to committee, so passage/delivery is not complete as of August 24, 2026.

partial same_term A for effort

S. 5211 (119th Congress), Introduced in Senate: Strategy for Cyber Cooperation in the Indo-Pacific Region
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Duckworth's office said Senate Armed Services Committee-passed FY27 NDAA provisions included directing DOD to construct a strategy and implementation plan to advance cyber cooperation with Indo-Pacific allies and partners, including partner capacity in cyber offensive operations and cybersecurity resilience.

Unverified model/legacy excerpt; not proof. AI summary (separate from source): This directly supports that Duckworth worked to move the promised provision through SASC, but committee advancement is short of enacted law. No later lookback-window source showed final passage or implementation by August 24, 2026.

partial same_term A for effort

Duckworth Secures Key Provisions to Strengthen Our National Security and Coordination with Partners in the Indo-Pacific Region
primary · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 88%

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Duckworth materially advanced the promised policy in the same Senate term by securing a matching FY27 NDAA provision through the Senate Armed Services Committee and by joining S. 5211, a standalone bill requiring DOD to develop and begin implementing an Indo-Pacific cyber cooperation strategy covering offensive capacity and cybersecurity resilience. However, the provision/bill had not become enacted law or produced an implemented DOD strategy by August 24, 2026, so the promised legislative outcome was not fully delivered.

provider codex_cli · model gpt-5.5 · confidence 90%