; and (B) the Committee on Foreign Affairs, the Committee on Appropriations, and the Committee on Armed Services of the House of Representatives. (2) AUKUS; AUKUS Partnership The terms AUKUS and AUKUS partnership means the trilateral security partnership between the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, which includes the following two pillars: (A) Pillar One of AUKUS is focused on developing a pathway for Australia to acquire conventionally armed, nuclear powered submarines. (B) Pillar Two of AUKUS is focused on enhancing trilateral collaboration on advanced defense capabilities to include hypersonic and counter hypersonic capabilities, quantum technologies, undersea technologies, and artificial intelligence. (3) AUKUS partner The term AUKUS partner refers to a member of AUKUS. (4) Defense article