Congress makes the following findings: (1) The reserve components provide critical capabilities to the Department of Defense to augment and enhance the active components. Those capabilities include experiences and skills associated with both the members’ military career fields and their civilian occupations and positions. (2) The Reserve Force Policy Board identified in August 2020 the inability of the Department of Defense to leverage the civilian skills of members of the reserve components when needed. (3) The Department of Defense no longer maintains the Civilian Employment Information Program, which provided a database of the civilian employment information and skills associated with members of the reserve components. (4) There is no mechanism to evaluate qualification status and present the surge and augmentation capabilities of the reserve components in providing computer programming occupational capabilities, experiences, and skills. (b) Policy (1) In general It shall be a policy of the Armed Forces to utilize a robust human capital infrastructure to bolster the capacity of the reserve components to evaluate, track, and present a qualified and known standard to the military departments with respect to computer programming occupational areas. (2) Elements The policy set forth in paragraph (1) shall be achieved through— (A) a process by which members of a reserve component are able to gain occupational or career field designation based on policies established under section 3 using experiences, training, or skills developed as a result of their civilian occupations