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Bills/119th Congress · House

H.R. 6558

Introduced

Defense Secure Mobile Phones Act of 2025

Sponsor
RDon Bacon· Nebraska
Introduced
December 10, 2025
Policy area
Armed Forces and National Security
Latest action
Referred to the House Committee on Armed Services.December 10, 2025
[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 6558 Introduced in House (IH)]

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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. R. 6558

To direct the Secretary of Defense to provide senior officials of the 
Department of Defense with secure mobile phones, and for other 
purposes.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

December 10, 2025

Mr. Bacon introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
Committee on Armed Services

_______________________________________________________________________

A BILL

To direct the Secretary of Defense to provide senior officials of the 
Department of Defense with secure mobile phones, and for other 
purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the ``Defense Secure Mobile Phones Act of 
2025''.

SEC. 2. SECURE MOBILE PHONES FOR SENIOR OFFICIALS AND PERSONNEL 
PERFORMING SENSITIVE FUNCTIONS.

(a) In General.--Beginning not later than 90 days after the date of 
enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall ensure that each 
wireless mobile phone the Department of Defense provides to a senior 
official of the Department or any other employee of the Department who 
performs sensitive national security functions, as determined by the 
Secretary, and all related telecommunications services are acquired 
under contracts or other agreements that require the enhanced 
cybersecurity protections described in subsection (b).
(b) Protections Described.--The enhanced cybersecurity protections 
described in this subsection enhanced cybersecurity protections for 
wireless mobile phones and related telecommunication services that 
includes--
(1) encryption of data on the wireless mobile phones and of 
all telecommunications to and from the wireless mobile phones 
through such telecommunication services;
(2) capabilities to mitigate or obfuscate persistent device 
identifiers, including periodic rotation of network or hardware 
identifiers to reduce the risk of inappropriate tracking of the 
activity or location of the wireless mobile phones; and
(3) the capability to continuously monitor the wireless 
mobile phones.
(c) Report.--Not later than 180 days after the enactment of this 
Act, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the congressional defense 
committees a report containing--
(1) a list of the contracts or other agreements entered 
into pursuant to subsection (a);
(2) the criteria used by the Secretary to determine which 
employees of the Department of Defense performs sensitive 
national security functions for the purposes of subsection (a), 
and the total number of such employees; and
(3) the total costs of wireless mobile phones and 
telecommunication services required by subsection (a).
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