Sec. 525. Enhancement of mechanisms to correlate skills and training for military occupational specialties with skills and training required for civilian certifications and licenses
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The Secretaries of the military departments, in coordination with the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, shall, to the maximum extent practicable, make information on civilian credentialing opportunities available to members of the Armed Forces beginning with, and at every stage of, training of members for military occupational specialties, in order to permit members— to evaluate the extent to which such training correlates with the skills and training required in connection with various civilian certifications and licenses; and to assess the suitability of such training for obtaining or pursuing such civilian certifications and licenses.
Information shall be made available under paragraph
(1)in a manner consistent with the Transition Goals Plans Success
(GPS)program. The information made available under paragraph
(1)shall include, but not be limited to, the following: Information on the civilian occupational equivalents of military occupational specialties (MOS). Information on civilian license or certification requirements, including examination requirements. Information on the availability and opportunities for use of educational benefits available to members of the Armed Forces, as appropriate, corresponding training, or continuing education that leads to a certification exam in order to provide a pathway to credentialing opportunities. In making information available under paragraph (1), the Secretaries of the military departments may use and adapt appropriate portions of the Credentialing Opportunities On-line
(COOL)programs of the Army and the Navy and the Credentialing and Educational Research Tool
(CERT)of the Air Force. The Secretaries of the military departments, in coordination with the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness, shall, to the maximum extent practicable consistent with national security and privacy requirements, make available to entities specified in paragraph (2), upon request of such entities, information such as military course training curricula, syllabi, and materials, levels of military advancement attained, and professional skills developed. The entities specified in this paragraph are the following: Civilian credentialing agencies. Entities approved by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs, or by State approving agencies, for purposes of the use of educational assistance benefits under the laws administered by the Secretary of Veterans Affairs. The actions taken pursuant to paragraph
(1)may include the establishment of a central repository of information on training and training materials provided members in connection with military occupational specialities that is readily accessible by entities specified in paragraph
(2)in order to meet requests described in paragraph (1).