The JROTC POWER Act requires the Department of Defense to evaluate how instructor pay affects the military's ability to recruit and retain Junior Reserve Officers' Training Corps (JROTC) educators in high schools. Within 270 days of the law's enactment, the Defense Department must update its guidance and establish standardized metrics to track instructor hiring and retention across different military branches, geographic areas, and cost-of-living regions. These metrics will measure vacancy rates, time to fill positions, applicant completion rates, reasons job offers are declined, and other relevant data comparing the current pay system to any successor system. The Secretary of Defense must then report back to Congress annually for three years with baseline data, an assessment of how pay affects recruitment and retention, and recommendations for any needed changes. This legislation aims to ensure that JROTC instructor compensation remains competitive enough to maintain a trained military education workforce in schools nationwide.
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