1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Speed Warrior Outcomes, Research, Detection and Diagnosis Act of 2018 or the SWORDD Act of 2018 . 2. Findings Congress finds the following: (1) The Department of Defense and the Defense and Veterans Brain Injury Center estimate that 22 percent of all combat casualties from conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan are brain injuries, compared to 12 percent of Vietnam-related combat casualties. (2) The complex physiology of the human brain presents unique challenges in the diagnosis and treatment of these injuries, and places significant emotional and financial burdens on families living with those who suffer from post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries. (3) Despite considerable effort and investment devoted to the diagnosis and treatment of invisible wounds incurred from military service during the past decade, detection and diagnostic methods, therapies, and outcomes for post-traumatic stress and traumatic brain injuries are still not reaching the military and veteran population fast enough. (4) Accelerating innovation and treatment delivery for brain disease, particularly traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress, would be assisted by policies to improve collaboration between the Department of Defense, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Veterans Affairs, and medical research translation offices at major universities. (5) Existing interagency mechanisms, such as the Federal Interagency Traumatic Brain Injury Research and the Chronic Effects Neurotrama Consortium, play an important role in enabling breakthrough therapies for traumatic brain injury and post-traumatic stress by sharing science between military and nonmilitary patients affected by brain disease