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119TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 6510 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to direct the Secretary of Defense 
to establish the Military-Civilian Medical Surge Program. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 9, 2025 
Mr. BACON introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee 
on Armed Services 
A BILL 
To amend title 10, United States Code, to direct the Sec-
retary of Defense to establish the Military-Civilian Med-
ical Surge Program. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘National Military Civil-
ian Medical Surge Program Act of 2025’’. 
SEC. 2. MILITARY-CIVILIAN MEDICAL SURGE PROGRAM. 
Section 1096 of title 10, United States Code, is 
amended— 
(1) in the section heading, by adding at the end 
the following: ‘‘; medical surge program’’; and 
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(2) by adding at the end the following new sub-
section: 
‘‘(e) MEDICAL SURGE PROGRAM.—(1) The Secretary 
of Defense, in collaboration with the Secretary of Health 
and Human Services, shall carry out a program of record 
known as the Military-Civilian Medical Surge Program 
to— 
‘‘(A) support locations that the Secretary of 
Defense selects under paragraph (3)(B); and 
‘‘(B) enhance the interoperability and medical 
surge capability and capacity of the National Dis-
aster Medical System in response to a declaration or 
other action described in subparagraphs (A) through 
(F) of paragraph (4). 
‘‘(2)(A) The Secretary of Defense, acting through the 
Institute for Defense Health Cooperation at the Uni-
formed Services University of the Health Sciences (or such 
successor center), shall oversee the management, staffing, 
and deployment of the Program, in coordination with the 
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Director of the 
Defense Health Agency, and, for purposes of ensuring 
that the Program is carried out in a manner that is con-
sistent with paragraph (6), the Secretary of Health and 
Human Services. 
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‘‘(B) In carrying out subparagraph (A) during a con-
tingency operation, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure 
that the Program provides support, acting through the 
Defense Health Agency serving as a combat support agen-
cy, to the relevant combatant command. 
‘‘(C) The Secretary of Defense shall ensure the pro-
gram is administrated in coordination with the military 
departments, the Joint Staff, the Defense Health Agency, 
and the Department of Health and Human Services 
through semiannual coordination meetings and quarterly 
updates. On an annual basis, one such meeting shall in-
clude the participation of partners specified in paragraph 
(3)(A). 
‘‘(D) In carrying out the Program, the Secretary of 
Defense shall maintain requirements for staffing, special-
ized training, research, and education, regarding patient 
regulation, movement, definitive care, and other matters 
the Secretary determines critical to sustaining the health 
of members of the armed forces. 
‘‘(3)(A) In carrying out the Program, the Secretary 
of Defense shall establish partnerships at locations se-
lected under subparagraph (B) with public, private, and 
nonprofit health care organizations, health care institu-
tions, health care entities, academic medical centers of in-
stitutions of higher education, and hospitals that the Sec-
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retary and the Secretary of Health and Human Services 
determine— 
‘‘(i) are critical in mobilizing a civilian medical 
response in support of a wartime contingency or 
other catastrophic event in the United States; and 
‘‘(ii) have demonstrated technical proficiency in 
critical national security domains, including high- 
consequence infectious disease and special pathogen 
preparedness, and matters relating to defense, con-
tainment, management, care, and transportation. 
‘‘(B) The Secretary of Defense shall select not fewer 
than eight locations that are operationally relevant to the 
missions of the Department of Defense under the National 
Disaster Medical System and are aeromedical or other 
transport hubs or logistics centers in the United States 
for partnerships under subparagraph (A). The Secretary 
may select more than eight locations, including locations 
outside of the continental United States, if the Secretary 
determines such additional locations cover areas of stra-
tegic and operational relevance to the Department. 
‘‘(4) The Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of 
Health and Human Services shall ensure that the partner-
ships under paragraph (3)(A) allow for civilian medical 
personnel to quickly and effectively mobilize direct support 
to military medical treatment facilities and provide sup-
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