Defense Secure Mobile Phones Act of 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

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                                 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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