Registration with the Selective Service System has been mandatory for decades, however the US military draft will soon become an automatic registration process by the federal government for young men.

Starting in December, they will no longer be required to register or report their addresses for a possible military draft ...

Eligible men will soon be automatically registered into the U.S. military draft pool in order to streamline the previous self-registration process. On March 30, the Selective Service System, which is ...

Automatic draft registration will start in December 2026, following President Donald Trump’s signing of the fiscal year 2026 National Defense Authorization Act into law in December 2025. This will ...

The federal government is preparing to begin automatically registering eligible U.S. men ages 18 to 26 for the military draft pool. The U.S. hasn’t had a military draft since 1973, but it still ...