Navy Updates Millennium Cohort Privacy Records for Broader Health Research Sharing
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This notice updates the Navy’s Millennium Cohort privacy record system, which tracks long-term health and life outcomes for service members, veterans, spouses, and some military-connected children. The change expands what the system covers, renames it, adds standard DoD sharing rules, and makes it easier to share data with other agencies and research partners for health studies. For military personnel, veterans, families, and child participants, the practical effect is broader collection and use of sensitive personal and health data, including medical, educational, employment, and law-enforcement information. The notice takes effect on publication, but comments on the sharing rules are open until June 1, 2026.
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Key Changes
- Renames the system from 'Millennium Cohort Study' to 'Millennium Cohort Program Records' and expands its purpose
- Adds standard DoD routine uses and broadens sharing with outside agencies and research partners, including DVA, HHS, and CDC
- Updates covered people, record sources, storage, retrieval, access, and safeguards for a larger health research database
Obligations
What this law requires
The Department of the Navy must accept public comments on the updated Routine Uses section of the Millennium Cohort Program Records notice through June 1, 2026, and revise/republish the notice if comments require modification.
The Department of the Navy must maintain the modified system of records under the new name, 'Millennium Cohort Program Records, N06500-1,' effective upon publication.
The Department of Defense must accept and consider public comments on the Routine Uses through June 1, 2026, and must treat the Routine Uses as effective only at the close of the comment period unless comments require modification and republication.
Individuals seeking access to records in this system must submit a written request that identifies the appropriate office to which the request should be directed, consistent with the updated Record Access Procedures.
The Department of the Navy must maintain and use the system under the updated name and identifier, 'Millennium Cohort Program Records, N06500-1,' and apply the revised categories of individuals, records, and purposes described in the notice.