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The bill targets mental-health support and cleared behavioral-health access to improve the resilience and readiness of U.S. Cyber Command personnel, but it requires additional DoD/taxpayer spending and raises implementation, privacy, and equity concerns.
Service members assigned to U.S. Cyber Command will get local access to cleared behavioral health professionals to address work-related stress, improving mental health and operational readiness.
Requiring appropriately cleared clinicians for cyber forces will strengthen the behavioral health workforce and clearance/hiring pipelines for providers who serve those units.
Annual briefings to the Armed Services Committees for three years increase oversight and transparency about implementation, clinical acuity, and challenges, giving Congress and taxpayers better visibility into the program.
Recruiting, vetting/clearing, and stationing cleared behavioral health clinicians at Cyber Mission Force locations will create additional costs for the Department of Defense and taxpayers.
If security clearances take a long time or cleared clinicians are scarce, implementation could be delayed or limited, reducing timely access for Service members.
Service members using cleared behavioral health clinicians may face privacy concerns because clinicians with clearances could be required to access or handle classified occupational information.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires DoD to assign security‑cleared behavioral health professionals to Cyber Command/Cyber Mission Force locations and report annually on implementation for three years.
Requires the Department of Defense to create an initiative, within one year of enactment, to assess and address work-related behavioral health and occupational resiliency challenges at U.S. Cyber Command and Cyber Mission Force duty locations by assigning behavioral health professionals who hold the necessary security clearances to treat assigned service members. The Department must provide annual briefings to the Senate and House Armed Services Committees for three years after the initiative starts, covering implementation progress, clearance validation, clinical acuity treated, challenges, outreach efforts, and other information deemed appropriate.
Introduced December 11, 2025 by Sarah Elfreth · Last progress December 11, 2025