ESTABLISHMENT AND USE OF CONSISTENT DEFINITION OF GENDER-NEUTRAL OCCUPATIONAL STANDARD FOR MILITARY CAREER DESIGNATORS.

SEC. 523. ESTABLISHMENT AND USE OF CONSISTENT DEFINITION OF GENDER-NEUTRAL OCCUPATIONAL STANDARD FOR MILITARY CAREER DESIGNATORS. (a) Establishment of Definitions.—Section 543 of the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 1994 (Public Law 103-160; 10 U.S.C. 113 note) is amended by adding at the end the following new subsection: “(d) Definitions. In this section: “(1) Gender-neutral occupational standard. The term ‘gender-neutral occupational standard’, with respect to a military career designator, means that all members of the Armed Forces serving in or assigned to the military career designator must meet the same performance outcome-based standards for the successful accomplishment of the necessary and required specific tasks associated with the qualifications and duties performed while serving in or assigned to the military career designator. “(2) Military career designator. The term ‘military career designator’ refers to— “(A) in the case of enlisted members and warrant officers of the Armed Forces, military occupational specialties, specialty codes, enlisted designators, enlisted classification codes, additional skill identifiers, and special qualification identifiers; and “(B) in the case of commissioned officers (other than commissioned warrant officers), officer areas of concentration, occupational specialties, specialty codes, additional skill identifiers, and special qualification identifiers.” . (b) Use of Definitions.—Such section is further amended— (1) in subsection (a)— (A) in the matter preceding paragraph (1), by striking “military occupational career field” and inserting “military career designator”; and (B) in paragraph (1), by striking “common, relevant performance standards” and inserting “an occupational standard”; (2) in subsection (b)— (A) in paragraph (1)— (i) by striking “any military occupational specialty” and inserting “any military career designator”; and (ii) by striking “requirements for members in that specialty and shall ensure (in the case of an occupational specialty” and inserting “requirements as part of the gender-neutral occupational standard for members in that career designator and shall ensure (in the case of a career designator”; and (B) in paragraph (2)— (i) by striking “an occupational specialty” and inserting “a military career designator”; (ii) by striking “that occupational specialty” and inserting “that military career designator”; and (iii) by striking “that specialty” and inserting “that military career designator”; and (3) in subsection (c)— (A) by striking “the occupational standards for a military occupational field” and inserting “the gender-neutral occupational standard for a military career designator”; and (B) by striking “that occupational field” and inserting “that military career designator”.