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The bill would expand cleared behavioral-health care and oversight for U.S. Cyber Command—improving mental-health access and readiness for cyber operators—while imposing modest costs, creating privacy and implementation challenges, and risking unequal benefits unless funding, workforce, and long-term oversight are sustained.
U.S. Cyber Command service members will gain local access to cleared behavioral health professionals who can address work-related stress and occupational mental-health needs.
Cyber operator readiness and mission effectiveness are likely to improve by reducing burnout and performance degradation through targeted occupational resiliency support.
The requirement for appropriately cleared clinicians can grow the behavioral-health workforce pipeline (hiring and clearance processes) that serves cyber forces.
Taxpayers and the Department of Defense will face costs to recruit, clear, and station cleared behavioral-health professionals at Cyber Mission Force locations.
Implementation may be delayed or limited if security clearances take too long or qualified cleared clinicians are scarce, reducing timely access for service members.
Service members seeking care may face privacy risks because cleared clinicians could need access to classified occupational information.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires DoD to deploy security‑cleared behavioral health professionals to Cyber Command locations within one year and report annually for three years.
Official title: To direct the Department of Defense to carry out an initiative to understand and address occupational resiliency challenges of the Cyber Mission Force.
Introduced December 11, 2025 by Sarah Elfreth · Last progress December 11, 2025
Requires the Department of Defense to set up a program within one year to place security‑cleared behavioral health professionals at U.S. Cyber Command and Cyber Mission Force duty locations to assess and address work‑related behavioral health and occupational resiliency challenges. The initiative must ensure clinicians hold whatever clearances are needed to treat assigned service members and include annual briefings to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees for three years about implementation, caseload acuity, challenges, and outreach efforts.