; (ii) the promulgation of written information-sharing guidelines or policies to improve information sharing under the AUKUS partnership; (iii) the establishment of an information handling caveat specific to the AUKUS partnership; and (iv) the reduction in use of the Not Releasable to Foreign Nations (NOFORN) information handling caveat. (G) Processes for the protection of privately held intellectual property, including patents. (H) A plan to leverage, for the AUKUS partnership, any relevant existing cybersecurity or technology partnership or cooperation activity between the United States and the United Kingdom or between the United States and Australia. (I) Recommended updates to other statutory, regulatory, policy, or process frameworks. (J) Any other matter the Secretary of Defense considers appropriate. (c) Semiannual updates Not later than 60 days after the date on which the plan required by subsection (b) is submitted, and semiannually thereafter on April 1 and October 1 each year through 2029, the senior civilian official designated under subsection (a) shall provide the congressional defense committees with a briefing on the status of all Department activities to implement the AUKUS partnership. (d) Appropriate committees of Congress defined In this section, the term appropriate committees of Congress means— (1) the Committee on Armed Services, the Committee on Foreign Relations, and the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate