; and (B) has established relationships with leading venture capital firms and other sources of early stage financial capital. (4) Producing dual-use startups The pilot program required by paragraph (1) shall be a pilot program to assess the ability to produce dual-use startups focused on priority defense technology that attract seed and round A financing from premier venture capital firms in the United States. (5) Scalability The Secretary shall ensure that the pilot program conducted under paragraph (1) is designed to be scalable and, if successful, enlarged to consist of at least 10 and not more than 20 leading regionally-based public research universities. (d) Semiannual reports Not less frequently than once every six months for the first two years of the pilot program conducted under subsection (c), the Secretary shall brief the congressional defense committees on the progress of the Secretary in carrying out the pilot program. (e) Funding Of the amounts appropriated or otherwise made available by this Act for the Industrial Base Analysis and Sustainment program (IBAS), Defense Innovation Unit Experimental, the Rapid Innovation Fund (RIF), and for any purpose relating to strengthening and improving the defense industrial base, $5,000,000 shall be available to carry out the pilot program required by subsection (c). (f) Congressional defense committees defined In this section, the term congressional defense committees has the meaning given such term in section 101 of title 10, United States Code.