Joint forces medical capabilities development and standardization

(a) Process required Not later than 180 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense, in coordination with the Secretary of each military department, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the Director of the Defense Health Agency, shall develop a process to establish required joint force medical capabilities for members of the Armed Forces that meet the operational planning requirements of the combatant commands. (b) Process elements The process developed under subsection (a) shall include the following: (1) A joint medical estimate to determine the medical requirements for managing members of the Armed Forces who are wounded, ill, or injured during military operations, including with respect to environmental health, public health, health treats, force health protection, and medical material and supply chain risks. (2) The development of a joint concept of health service support, which shall include a listing of the capabilities (including medical intelligence, blood support, education, and training) required by the defense health and medical enterprise to support the complexities of the future battlespace aligned against the roles of care. (3) A process to review and revise military health related mission essential tasks in order to ensure that such tasks are aligned with military medical knowledge, skills, abilities, education, and training. (4) A process to standardize the interoperability of medical equipment and capabilities to support the joint force. (5) A process to collect and evaluate operational medical lessons of the Department of Defense— (A) learned through use of the Joint Lessons Learned Information System; or (B) by leveraging information available through the Joint Trauma System of the Defense Health Agency, process improvement systems, Trauma Registry of the Department of Defense, and other information systems as appropriate. (6) A process to incorporate operational medical lessons learned into the joint medical estimate. (7) A process to incorporate operational medical lessons learned into the Universal Joint Task List, the Mission Essential Task Lists of each military department, and the Joint Mission Essential Task List. (8) A process to incorporate operational medical lessons learned into enlisted medical education and training, undergraduate medical education, and graduate medical education. (c) Annual briefing required Not later than April 1 of each year through 2031, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives a briefing on the process required under subsection (a). (d) Roles of care defined In this section, the term roles of care means the standardized levels of medical capability provided to wounded, ill, or injured personnel of the Armed Forces as such personnel move through the military health system from the point of injury to definitive treatment and rehabilitation. (e) Repeal of superseded authority Section 732 of the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019 (Public Law 115–232; 132 Stat. 1817) is repealed.