BLAST OVERPRESSURE AND TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY OVERSIGHT STRATEGY AND ACTION PLAN.

SEC. 724. BLAST OVERPRESSURE AND TRAUMATIC BRAIN INJURY OVERSIGHT STRATEGY AND ACTION PLAN. (a) Strategy and Plan Required.—The Secretary of Defense shall develop and implement a traumatic brain injury oversight strategy and action plan that includes, at a minimum, the following: (1) Assigned roles and responsibilities for the components of the Office of the Secretary of Defense for the mitigation, identification, and treatment of traumatic brain injury and the monitoring and documentation of blast overpressure exposure. (2) Standardized monitoring, treatment, and referral guidelines for traumatic brain injury programs across all covered Armed Forces. (3) A review and update of the current brain injury diagnostic tools used by such programs. (4) Standardized, 72-hour follow-up requirements for all traumatic brain injury patients, including protocols for the treatment and observation during such follow-up appointments. (5) Oversight and documentation standards to aid in data collection. (b) Implementation.—The Secretary shall implement the oversight strategy and action plan under subsection (a) not later than one year after the date of the enactment of this Act. (c) Submission to GAO.—Upon development of the oversight strategy and action plan under subsection (a), the Secretary shall submit to the Comptroller General of the United States the oversight strategy and action plan. (d) Covered Armed Forces Defined.—In this section, the term “covered Armed Forces” means the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Air Force, and Space Force.