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Dunn/Rubio Veteran STEM Act Approved

The Supporting Veterans in STEM Careers Act was signed into law by President Trump on February 11th. The bipartisan legislation was led by Rep. Neal Dunn (FL-2) in the House with Senators Rubio and Klobuchar sponsoring the Senate companion bill. The new law requires the Office of Science and Technology Policy to create a specialized group that would work to improve veteran representation in STEM careers and produce a plan to diminish the obstacles that our nation’s heroes face when seeking meaningful careers after their military retirements.

With millions of STEM jobs in the United States, veterans are in a unique position to fill vacant and new jobs that require much of the same skills they acquired with their time in the military. Skills in cyber-security, medicine, weapons, and physics are employed in the military but civilian STEM fields have underutilized the abilities of our veterans and the perspectives they could bring to civilian STEM jobs. Military personnel have found it difficult to utilize their knowledge in STEM when they come back home due to unnecessary barriers that block them from obtaining jobs they would otherwise be qualified for. 

Supporting Veterans in STEM Careers Act S. 153