Sec. 571. MENTORSHIP AND CAREER COUNSELING PROGRAM FOR OFFICERS TO IMPROVE DIVERSITY IN MILITARY LEADERSHIP
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## SEC. 571 MENTORSHIP AND CAREER COUNSELING PROGRAM FOR OFFICERS TO IMPROVE DIVERSITY IN MILITARY LEADERSHIP ###
(a)Program Required ####
(1)In general Section 656 of title 10, United States Code, is amended— #####
(A)by redesignating subsections
(b)through
(e)as subsections
(c)through (f), respectively; and #####
(B)by inserting after subsection
(a)the following new subsection (b): > > ### “(b) Mentoring and Career Counseling Program > > > #### “(1) Program required as part of plan > > With the goal of having the diversity of the population of officers serving in each branch, specialty, community, and grade of each armed force reflect the diversity of the population in such armed force as a whole, the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating shall include in the plan required by subsection
(a)a mentoring and career counseling program for officers. > > > #### “(2) Elements > > The program required by this subsection shall include the following: > > > ##### “(A) > > The option for any officer to participate in the program. > > > ##### “(B) > > For each officer who elects to participate in the program, the following: > > > ###### “(i) > > One or more opportunities for mentoring and career counseling before selection of the officer’s branch, specialty, or community. > > > ###### “(ii) > > Ongoing opportunities for mentoring and career counseling following selection of the officer’s branch, specialty, or community, and continuing through the officer’s military career. > > > ##### “(C) > > Mentoring and counseling during opportunities under subparagraph
(B)consisting of the following: > > > ###### “(i) > > Information on officer retention and promotion rates in each grade, branch, specialty, and community of the armed force concerned, including the rate at which officers in each branch, specialty, or community of such armed force are promoted to a grade above O-6. > > > ###### “(ii) > > Information on career and service pathways, including service in the reserve components. > > > ###### “(iii) > > Such other information as may be required to optimize the ability of an officer to make informed career decisions through the officer’s military career.” > . ####
(2)Performance metrics Subsection
(c)of such section, as redesignated by paragraph (1)(A), is amended— #####
(A)in the subsection heading, by inserting “and Mentoring and Career Counseling Program” after “Developing and Implementing Plan”; and #####
(B)by inserting “and the mentoring and career counseling program under subsection (b)” after “the plan under subsection (a)”. ####
(3)Conforming and clerical amendments #####
(A)Heading amendment The heading of such section is amended to read as follows: > > ## “SEC. 656 Diversity in military leadership: plan; mentoring and career counseling program” > . #####
(B)Table of sections **[**[10 U.S.C. 651](/us/usc/t10/s651)**]** The table of sections at the beginning of chapter 37 of such title is amended by striking the item relating to section 656 and inserting the following new item:" “656. Diversity in military leadership: plan; mentoring and career counseling program.” ". ###
(b)Report ####
(1)In general Not later than 270 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Secretary of Defense shall, in coordination with the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating, submit to the appropriate committees of Congress a report on the mentoring and career counseling program established pursuant to subsection
(b)of section 656 of title 10, United States Code (as amended by subsection (a)). ####
(2)Elements The report under paragraph
(1)shall include the following: #####
(A)A description of the manner in which each Armed Force will implement the mentoring and counseling program, #####
(B)A description of the metrics that will be used to measure progress in developing and implementing the mentoring and career counseling program. #####
(C)For each Armed Force, an explanation whether the mentoring and career counseling program will be carried out as part of another program of such Armed Force or through the establishment of a separate subprogram or subprograms of such Armed Force. #####
(D)A description of the additional resources, if any, that will be required to implement the mentoring and career counseling program, including the specific number of additional personnel authorizations that will be required to staff the program. #####
(E)Such other information on the mentoring and career counseling program as the Secretary of Defense and the Secretary of the Department in which the Coast Guard is operating consider appropriate. ####
(3)Appropriate committees of congress defined In this subsection, the term “appropriate committees of Congress” means— #####
(A)the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation of the Senate; and #####
(B)the Committee on Armed Services and the Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure of the House of Representatives.
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MENTORSHIP AND CAREER COUNSELING PROGRAM FOR OFFICERS TO IMPROVE DIVERSITY IN MILITARY LEADERSHIP
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