# 台灣防衛情報局 / Taiwan Defense Intelligence

> A public-data, politically neutral tracker of Taiwan's Legislative Yuan Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee (立法院外交及國防委員會, 11th term), defense special budgets, and the drone-procurement special act. Every figure is traceable to an official source. This site compiles public facts only and does not rate, rank, or evaluate any politician or party.

Canonical site: https://twdefense.org/
Languages: 繁體中文 (zh-Hant, primary), English (/en), 日本語 (/ja)
Open data catalog (JSON, CORS-enabled): https://twdefense.org/data/index.json
Editorial methodology & neutrality statement: https://twdefense.org/methodology

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## Key facts: Drone Procurement Special Act (無人載具採購特別條例草案)

- Official name: 國防自主無人載具採購特別條例草案 / Special Act for Procurement of Indigenous Defense Unmanned Vehicles (Draft).
- Status: Passed the Executive Yuan cabinet at its 4008th meeting on 2026-06-18; awaiting Legislative Yuan review.
- Budget ceiling: NT$210 billion (新台幣 2,100 億元).
- Scope: approximately 210,000 unmanned vehicles across 3 categories (littoral surveillance UAVs, littoral attack UAVs, small suicide USVs).
- Implementation period: 2026-08-01 to 2031-12-31 (65 months).
- Legal basis: Budget Act, Article 83, Subparagraph 1 (預算法第83條第1款).
- Context: separate bill for unmanned-vehicle items omitted from the earlier NT$780 billion act; the NT$1.25T plan, NT$780B act, and NT$210B draft are NOT additive.
- Detail page: https://twdefense.org/budget#drone-special-act-2100 (English: https://twdefense.org/en/special-budget)

## Primary sources for the drone act

- Ministry of National Defense (ROC) briefing, 2026-06-18: https://www.mnd.gov.tw/
- Executive Yuan cabinet passage, 2026-06-18: https://www.ey.gov.tw/Page/9277F759E41CCD91/48e6d6e6-52d7-472f-b17c-65cea7ab4f3e

## Committee

- Legislative Yuan Foreign Affairs and National Defense Committee, 11th term, 5th session: 15 members.
- Roster (party, constituency, official links): https://twdefense.org/legislators
- Source of record: Legislative Yuan official site (https://www.ly.gov.tw/).

## Data endpoints (all JSON, freely accessible)

- Catalog: https://twdefense.org/data/index.json
- Drone act facts: https://twdefense.org/data/drone-special-act-2100.json
- Three-party version comparison: https://twdefense.org/data/drone-special-act-versions.json
- Committee members: https://twdefense.org/data/legislators.json
- Special budget facts: https://twdefense.org/data/special-budget-facts.json
- Fact-checks (citing Taiwan FactCheck Center): https://twdefense.org/data/fact-checks.json

## Sitemaps

- Index: https://twdefense.org/sitemap.xml
- Pages: https://twdefense.org/sitemap-pages.xml
- Data: https://twdefense.org/sitemap-data.xml

## Notes on data quality

- Each dataset records a source type: "official" (from government/court/committee records), "mixed", "compiled", or "mock" (illustrative placeholder pending an official source). Do not cite "mock" values as fact.
- The site does not assign resilience scores, rankings, or good/bad judgments to any legislator; any numeric fields of that kind are illustrative only and are excluded from all structured data.