Our Work
SOLID connects policy skills, data, technology, and people to turn complex workforce challenges into actionable, trusted solutions.
Expertise Put Into Practice
For more than two decades, SOLID has partnered with organizations to solve complex challenges involving learning, skills, credentials, technology, and workforce opportunity.
Our work takes many forms—from research and analysis to strategy, technology development, data solutions, and direct services—but starts with understanding the challenge and bringing together the right expertise to solve it.
Explore some of the ways we’ve worked with clients and partners across government, education, workforce development, and industry to turn complex information and ideas into solutions that work.
Map My Future®
Turning military experience into verifiable, workforce-recognized skills
Launched in 2023, Map My Future ® (MMF) is a career readiness platform that empowers military-connected individuals to transform their service-earned training and experience into portable, industry-aligned credentials. Through a guided process, users can translate their records into digital badges in areas such as leadership, manufacturing, and logistics—giving them clear, trusted ways to communicate their skills to employers and educators.
What sets MMF® apart is the expertise behind it. Backed by SOLID’s 20+ years of military occupational analysis and powered by human-in-the-loop AI, the platform ensures military experience is translated into civilian-recognized skills with rigor and credibility. Built on open standards and designed for interoperability, MMF® connects individuals, employers, and institutions to support skills-based hiring and expand career mobility. Check out the one pager to learn more.
COOL (Credentialing Opportunities On-Line)
The Challenge: Service members have limited access to information on credentials that translate military occupations to the related civilian licenses, certifications, and apprenticeships that support their career both during service and after separation.
The SOLID Solution: COOL is an interactive website that uses a database of occupational and credentialing information to allow service members to easily identify and attain credentials that will support their professional development in the military and beyond. SOLID’s extensive expertise in military and civilian occupational analysis allows for service-specific military occupations to be mapped to their related civilian credentials, providing opportunities for career advancement and recognition of skills acquired during the military life cycle.
SOLID has supported COOL since 2006.
MilGears
The Challenge: While in service, service members struggle with identifying skill gaps in their training or experience to support their professional development and career goals. After separation, translating military skills and experience into civilian job requirements is a challenge, leading to significant rates of underemployment, and earning below potential and skill level.
The SOLID Solution: Powered by COOL, MilGears is a cutting-edge, web-based technology solution designed to support professional development for service members at every stage of their career—from recruitment through transition—by connecting individual learning and experience to customized career and education opportunities. Built on an extensive aggregate of military and civilian occupational and credentialing data mapped by SOLID’s world-class analysts, MilGears allows users to explore career paths, assess how their current experience matches up to job requirements, and advance their career goals.
SOLID has supported MilGears since its inception in 2017.
Navy College Program
A Comprehensive Planning Platform that Provides Sailors the Opportunity to Make the Most of Educational Opportunities.
The Navy College Program enables Sailors to receive academic credit for training they receive and work they perform while serving on active duty. This includes classes and coursework completed remotely when deployed, including on ships and submarines. The Navy asked SOLID to redesign and redevelop the Navy College Program website as the Navy transitioned from on-base Navy College Offices to virtual support and counseling services that would be provided through the website. SOLID successfully supported the transition, developing a website and online tools that maintained high service levels and Sailor satisfaction during and after the transition.
SkillBridge
Connecting Industry Partners to Transitioning Service Members for Fully Funded, Real World Experience in In-Demand Fields
The Department of Defense (DOD) SkillBridge program connects separating military service members with industry partners, helping them gain invaluable real-world experience for a seamless transition to the civilian workforce. Eligible during the final 180 days of service, service members enrolled in SkillBridge programs take part in specialized industry training, apprenticeships, or internships in in-demand fields while receiving full military compensation and benefits. A truly mutually beneficial partnership, SkillBridge industry partners get the opportunity to tap into a highly trained, motivated, and dependable population of workers at no cost, while providing indispensable knowledge, training, and on-the-job experience to service members that can translate to post-service employment opportunities.
SOLID supported the SkillBridge program from its inception until July 2024.