(3) EDUCATION
OF
MEMBERS
OF
ARMED 
FORCES.—The Secretary of Defense shall educate 
members of the Armed Forces and their families to 
recognize signs of combat stress, provide members 
pre-deployment combat stress management training, 
and increase outreach and access to members and 
their families about programs and treatment options 
(such as individual and family therapy) that mitigate 
the negative impact of combat stress on the return-
ing member. 
(4) INFORMATION
DISSEMINATION.—The Sec-
retary of Defense shall work with the Department of 
Veterans Affairs and the National Institutes of 
Health to research and implement best practices for 
information dissemination to enlisted personnel, offi-
cers, unit commanders, primary care providers and 
other medical personnel, and families of members of 
the Armed Forces. 
SEC. 4. EVIDENCE-BASED RESEARCH AND TRAINING. 
(a) WORKING GROUP.—The Secretary of Defense 
shall establish, in coordination with the Department of 
Veterans Affairs, the National Institutes of Health, and 
the National Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Medicine, 
a working group tasked with researching and developing 
evidence-based measures, practices, or procedures that re-
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duce the likelihood that personnel in combat will develop 
post-traumatic stress disorder or other stress-related psy-
chological pathologies (including substance use condi-
tions). The working group shall include personnel with ex-
perience in a combat theater, and behavioral health per-
sonnel who have experience providing treatment to individ-
uals with experience in a combat theater. 
(b) PEER-REVIEWED RESEARCH PROGRAM.—The 
Secretary of Defense shall establish a new Peer-Reviewed 
Research program within the Defense Health Program’s 
research and development function to research and de-
velop evidence-based preventive and early intervention 
measures, practices, or procedures that reduce the likeli-
hood that personnel in combat will develop post-traumatic 
stress disorder or other stress-related psychopathologies 
(including substance use conditions). There is authorized 
to be appropriated to carry out this subsection 
$50,000,000 for fiscal year 2007 and such sums as may 
be necessary thereafter. 
(c) REPORT.—The Secretary of Defense shall submit 
to Congress annually a report on the following: 
(1) The status of research conducted under this 
section. 
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(2) The status of the plan required under sec-
tion 3(a) and the expected timeline for the imple-
mentation of the plan. 
(3) After the plan under section 3(a) has been 
implemented, the status of the implementation, in-
cluding measures of the plan’s impact on psycho-
logical casualty rates. 
(d) FACILITATION.—The Secretary of Defense shall 
take such steps as practicable to facilitate the ability of 
investigators funded under this section to work with ac-
tive-duty military personnel in the course of their research. 
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