Sponsor
Gilbert Ray Cisneros
Representative · D-CA
Representative · D-CA
The bill funds a one-year GAO study to produce evidence, cost estimates, and MOS-fit analysis to guide a potential one-year active-duty recruitment program — trading faster implementation for more information at the expense of time, staff resources, and the risk of inconclusive results.
Military personnel and recruiters could see better alignment between short-term recruits and roles that can be trained quickly, improving near-term readiness and utility of any one-year enlistments.
Taxpayers and Congress will get estimated implementation costs so lawmakers can weigh budgetary trade-offs before approving a new personnel program.
Policymakers will receive an evidence-based analysis on whether a one-year active-duty recruitment program could boost enlistment or fill skill gaps, informing whether to pursue operational changes.
Federal employees and taxpayers will bear the cost and staff time for a GAO study that also creates at least a one-year delay before policymakers can act on recruitment changes.
Military personnel could face delayed operational changes if Congress waits for the report or relies on it too heavily instead of proceeding with needed reforms.
If existing data on comparable programs are limited, the GAO report may be inconclusive, leaving decision-makers uncertain about whether a one-year program would work.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Requires GAO to report within one year on the feasibility, costs, training, and impacts of a one-year active duty recruitment program.
Official title: To direct the Comptroller General of the United States to study the feasibility of a program to recruit individuals to serve for one year on active duty in the Armed Forces.
Introduced December 3, 2025 by Gilbert Ray Cisneros · Last progress December 3, 2025
Requires the Government Accountability Office (GAO) to deliver a feasibility report within one year on creating a program to recruit individuals for one-year active duty service in the Armed Forces. The report must identify suitable military occupational specialties, training needs, cost estimates, a description of service, implementation barriers (including data gaps), and compare one-year service programs in other countries with respect to recruitment, retention, and force effectiveness.