US HB3989

Requires the Secretary of Defense to submit annual assessments to Congress on recruiting methods to increase attendance at the Defense Language Institute Foreign Language Center (DLIFLC), with reports due by December 31 each year from 2025 through 2030

Mandates assessments identify public and private secondary schools engaged by military recruiters, track how many recruits from those schools enrolled at DLIFLC, and document challenges to recruiting qualified linguist candidates

Requires recommendations for new recruitment methods to increase awareness of military linguist professions and procedures to systematically document effective high school engagement activities

Directs each military department Secretary to provide implementation plans for the recommendations, along with measurable benchmarks of progress on current DLIFLC recruiting initiatives

Requires data on public secondary schools to be disaggregated by local educational agency