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119-hr-6823119th CongressWALLET

To direct the Secretary of Defense to establish a pilot program to facilitate the development of certain traumatic brain injury diagnostics for members of the Armed Forces.

Sponsored By: Representative Trahan, Lori [D-MA-3]

Introduced

Summary

Better battlefield traumatic brain injury diagnostics. This bill would create the Warfighter Traumatic Brain Injury Diagnostics Project, a Defense Department pilot to develop, test, and help procure diagnostic tools that detect and classify traumatic brain injuries for service members.

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  • Service members: Would benefit from improved tools that aim to detect TBI more accurately and distinguish mild from moderate or severe injuries, which could speed treatment and inform long-term care.
  • Military medical teams and readiness: Would get studies on how to combine new diagnostics with imaging, blood biomarkers, eye-tracking, electrophysiology, and environmental sensors to improve point-of-injury decisions and long-term prognosis.
  • Researchers and industry: Eligible U.S. entities, including nontraditional defense contractors, could receive grants to validate prototypes, solve manufacturing challenges, and move promising diagnostics into production. Grants favor groups with prior experience or modular technologies and may involve civilian level one trauma centers and Special Operations units in testing.

*Would authorize $5.0 million per year for fiscal years 2026–2029, totaling $20.0 million in authorized funding.*

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New pilot for military brain injury tests

This bill would create a DoD pilot to speed development and testing of devices that help diagnose traumatic brain injury (TBI) for members of the Armed Forces. The Department of Defense would have to start the pilot within 180 days of enactment and the authority would end on September 30, 2029; a report to congressional defense committees would be due within 90 days after the pilot ends. Congress could authorize $5,000,000 per year for fiscal years 2026–2029 (total $20 million) to fund grants, testing, prototyping, production, and manufacturing help to U.S. entities and trauma centers. The pilot would test whether covered technologies can distinguish mild from moderate or severe TBI and how they work with imaging, blood and electrophysiological biomarkers, eye tracking, environmental sensors, and other diagnostics to improve care and readiness.

Sponsors & CoSponsors

Sponsor

Trahan, Lori [D-MA-3]

MA • D

Cosponsors

  • Rep. Bacon, Don [R-NE-2]

    NE • R

    Sponsored 12/17/2025

  • Rep. Keating, William R. [D-MA-9]

    MA • D

    Sponsored 12/17/2025

  • Rep. McBride, Sarah [D-DE-At Large]

    DE • D

    Sponsored 12/17/2025

  • Rep. Fitzpatrick, Brian K. [R-PA-1]

    PA • R

    Sponsored 1/12/2026

  • Rep. Pfluger, August [R-TX-11]

    TX • R

    Sponsored 4/22/2026

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