Southeast Asia Partnership Expansion Act

HR 6182 modifies an existing cyber cooperation pilot program under the 2021 National Defense Authorization Act. It expands the program to include Malaysia and the Philippines as "covered foreign military partners," replacing specific country names with this defined term throughout the law. The program, originally limited to Vietnam, Thailand, and Indonesia, now covers five Southeast Asian nations and is extended to run through December 2029. These changes update legal references in the program's framework without altering its core purpose of enhancing military cyber collaboration.