Emergency Services
Verified identity mobilizes teams for disaster preparedness
Professional first responders and volunteers are critical to all phases of emergency management. But states can lose millions of dollars every year to disasters due to untracked response hours and underutilized personnel.
Merit in the field
Merit enables verified identity for workers and volunteers to support the mission areas and core capabilities of FEMA’s national disaster preparedness goals.
On-the-ground
Peer-to-peer verification of credentials remotely or onsite at any staging area, emergency operations center, camp, or command post.
Emergency operations center
Connects agencies and sets the foundation for interstate reciprocity. Verified credentials ensure deployment to highest and best purpose.
Aftermath
Statewide admin view for leadership, with time-tracking reports and optimization of reimbursements and resource management.
Moments of transformation
Limited system interconnectivity: Credentials live in various disconnected systems, which makes sharing information challenging.
Lack of mobility: No in-the-field systems access means paper access and records entered at a later date.
Reliance on physical records and paper sign-in sheets: Sign-in sheets and records are predominantly hard-copy.
Missing and incomplete records: A lack of a central system leads to gaps in service members’ records.
Fragmented and incomplete audit trails mean it’s not always clear which records have been sent, to and from which parties, and when those records were sent or received.
How Merit helps
Up-to-date records
Merit’s interoperable solution seamlessly connects credentials from disparate systems into a single, centralized platform, and delivers continuous, up-to-date record-keeping.
Immediate access
In-field, immediate access to verifiable digital credentials on any smartphone. No need to rely on paper records or sign-in sheets.
Standard format
A standard format can be used across the U.S. Department of Defense, while adding traceability and minimizing any possibility.
Service records and achievements
Service members can access all their records and achievements in one secure place.
Tracking and reporting
Robust audit trails, tracking, and reporting for oversight and management.
Assists with recruiting
Helps recruiters with new recruiter training, directed information to the field, tailored prospecting efforts, and future soldier training management.
Helps human resources
Helps human resources with skill identification, plus talent recruitment, selection, development, and distribution.
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Verified credentials
How Merit works
Merit’s verified identity platform offers easily issued, trackable digital records, certificates, awards, and sign-ins for interoperable service member credentials across the U.S Department of Defense.
Issuers
How Merit works for Issuers
Trusted organizations issue merits to participants, which helps them build a complete picture of all training, skill sets, and personnel readiness.
Verifiers
How Merit works for Verifiers
Gives any organization or individual the tools to verify anyone’s merit, and enables deployment to highest-and-best purpose based on verified credentials.
Recipients
How Merit works for Recipients
Merges identity and capabilities for individuals to better match them with opportunities. Streamlines verification process and accountability.
Advantages
Creating new pathways
New recruiter training
Streamlined process from recruiter to commander, company command teams, and battalion teams.
Directed information
Merit Opportunities can tailor specific recruiting messages to the right audience.
Tailored prospecting efforts
Assist with prospecting efforts by sending the right message to the right audience.
Soldier training management
Save future soldier training managers up to 20 to 30 hours per week.
Skill identification
Unbiased identification and estimation of an individual’s skills based on standard CV/resume input.
Talent recruitment
Strategies for targeting specific workforce sectors with prescribed sectors of elite talent.
Talent selection
Unbiased assessment and comparison of skill sets as compared to requirements.
Talent development
Individuals can identify gaps in their skill sets and find opportunities to improve.
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