1. Short title This Act may be cited as the National Defense Strategy Implementation Act . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) According to the 2017 National Security Strategy (NSS), China and Russia are developing advanced weapons and capabilities that could threaten our critical infrastructure and our command and control architecture and China and Russia challenge American power, influence, and interests, attempting to erode American security and prosperity . The NSS sets the country’s primary focus as sustaining favorable regional balances of power in the key regions of the world, and the use of our alliance and partnership architecture as the mechanism for doing so. (2) The 2018 National Defense Strategy (NDS) rightly stresses that long-term, strategic competition with China and Russia should be the top priority of the United States and the Department of Defense and require both increased and sustained investment, both because of the magnitude of the threats they pose to United States security and prosperity today and the potential for those threats to increase in the future. (3) To meet such challenges, the NDS states that the strategy of the United States will be to expand the competitive space while pursuing three distinct lines of effort, including rebuilding military readiness to build a more lethal Joint Force, strengthening alliances and attracting new partners, and reforming the Department’s business practices for greater performance and affordability. (4) In the January 2019 Worldwide Threat Assessment, the United States Intelligence Community stated that Russia and China seek to shape the international system and regional security dynamics and exert influence over the politics and economics of states in all regions of the world and especially in their backyards . (5) China and Russia will present a wide variety of economic, political, counterintelligence, military, and diplomatic challenges to the United States and its allies. We anticipate that they will collaborate to counter U.S.