Sec. 10. Workforce development
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The Administrator shall develop a workforce development program, in consultation with the following: The Secretary of Defense. The Commandant of the Coast Guard. The Chief of Engineers of the Army Corps of Engineers. The Secretary of Education. The Director of the Office of Management and Budget. The Administrator of the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. The Assistant Director for Geosciences of the National Science Foundation. The Secretary of the Navy. The Director of the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
The Secretary of Labor. The heads of other relevant Federal agencies. The Interagency Ocean Observation Committee and the associated advisory committee authorized by section 12304(d) of the Integrated Coastal and Ocean Observation System Act of 2009 ( 33 U.S.C. 3603(d) ). The Federal Geographic Data Committee and the National Geospatial Advisory Committee. The Interagency Committee on Ocean and Coastal Mapping and its associated advisory panel authorized by section 12203(g) of the Ocean and Coastal Mapping Integration Act ( 33 U.S.C. 3502(g) ).
The Interagency Ocean Exploration Committee established under section 7. The Committee on Ocean Policy established under section 8. The IUU Tech Force established under section 9. Non-Federal partners and other experts. The workforce development program developed under subsection
(a)shall— support undergraduate and graduate education in the fields of engineering, marine sciences, data science and analytics, machine learning, robotics, cybersecurity, and other fields related to the advancement of the monitoring, collection, synthesis, and analysis of data relating to the Great Lakes, oceans, bays, estuaries, and coasts; support citizen science and public outreach related to the Great Lakes, oceans, bays, estuaries, and coasts that may encourage people to develop scientific skills and to enter the fields described in paragraph (1); promote diversity in the fields described in paragraph (1); and build on existing science, technology, engineering, and math (known as STEM ) education, veterans’ training, and programs to support indigenous people and other underrepresented groups to facilitate education and training through programs that include— grants to members of the Armed Forces and veterans for vocational training or other educational opportunities in the fields of engineering, marine sciences, and data management and collection; grants to marine trade associations, engineering associations, and other professional organizations to provide apprenticeships; and scholarships for trade schools, vocational institutes, institutions of higher education, and educational coalitions such as the Alaska Native Science and Engineering Program. In this section: The term institution of higher education has the meaning given that term in section 101(a) of the Higher Education Act of 1965 ( 20 U.S.C. 1001(a) ). The term veteran has the meaning given that term in section 101 of title 38, United States Code.
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