Annual Assessment on Recruiting Practices to Increase Attendance at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center

(a) Assessments Not later than December 31, 2025, and annually thereafter until December 31, 2030, the Secretary of Defense shall submit to the Committees on Armed Services of the Senate and the House of Representatives an assessment of recruiting methods of the Department of Defense to increase attendance at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. (b) Elements of Assessment Each assessment submitted under subsection (a) shall include, with respect to the 12-month period ending the month before the date of the submission of the assessment, the following: (1) An identification of the public and private secondary schools engaged by military recruiters for the purpose of increasing attendance at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. (2) An identification of the number of persons recruited from such schools who completed enlistment or accession into the Armed Forces and subsequently enrolled at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. (3) An identification of challenges to recruiting qualified individuals from such schools that limit progress toward increasing the number of personnel attending the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center, including challenges with respect to— (A) procedures for recruiters to gain access to such schools; (B) the conduct of relationship-building activities between military recruiters and high schools; (C) the ability of military recruiters to follow-up with interested students; and (D) any other issues the Secretary considers appropriate. (4) Recommendations for new recruitment methods to increase attendance at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center through increased awareness of linguist professions in the United States Armed Forces and similar professions within the United States Government that might require proficiency in a foreign language. (5) Recommendations for how the Department of Defense can develop procedures to systematically document effective engagement and activities with high schools. (6) The plan of each Secretary of a military department to implement the recommendations described in paragraphs (4) and (5). (7) Measurable benchmarks of progress of current initiatives by the Department of Defense to recruit qualified individuals to attend the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center. (c) Disaggregation Requirement Each assessment submitted under subsection (a) shall, with respect to the information required by paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of subsection (b) that relates to public secondary schools, include such information in a form that is disaggregated by local educational agency. (d) Definitions In this Act, the terms local educational agency and secondary school have the meaning given the terms in section 8101 of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (20 U.S.C. 7801).