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The bill funds a GAO study that could improve targeting and cost-awareness for a potential one-year active-duty recruitment program—potentially strengthening short-term force readiness—but it imposes a one-year delay, uses federal resources, and may produce inconclusive results.
Military personnel and planners: GAO will identify military occupational specialties and training needs suitable for a one-year active-duty recruitment program, improving alignment of short-term recruits with roles that can be trained quickly.
Policymakers and military personnel: GAO will produce an evidence-based analysis to determine whether a one-year active-duty recruitment program could boost enlistment or fill skill gaps, providing a structured basis for decisions.
Taxpayers and budget overseers: the report will estimate implementation costs, helping Congress weigh budgetary trade-offs before approving a new personnel program.
Federal employees and taxpayers: conducting the GAO analysis will consume staff time and resources and adds a one-year delay before policymakers can act.
Military personnel and policymakers: because the report itself does not change policy, heavy reliance on it could delay needed operational changes.
Military personnel and policymakers: if data on existing programs or outcomes are limited, the report may produce inconclusive recommendations, leaving uncertainty for decision-makers.
Based on analysis of 2 sections of legislative text.
Directs GAO to produce a feasibility report within one year on a program to recruit people for one-year active-duty military service, covering jobs, training, costs, barriers, and foreign examples.
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 people to serve a one-year term on active duty in the U.S. Armed Forces. The report must identify suitable military occupations, required advanced training, cost estimates, a description of service, implementation barriers (including data gaps), and an assessment of similar one-year service programs in other countries and their effects on recruitment, retention, and force effectiveness. Also establishes the Act's short title. The law does not authorize a program or provide funding; it only mandates the GAO study and a report to congressional Armed Services committees within one year of enactment.