The Security Industry Association (SIA) — in a new initiative spearheaded by SIA’s Veterans in Security community — has launched the SIA Veterans Employment Exchange, which specializes in matching veterans and separating military members with open positions in the security industry.

According to the announcements, the Veterans Employment Exchange will be a key element of SIA’s 2025 efforts to strengthen veteran employment outreach, and the association plans to engage with veterans, as well as military members who are concluding their service, to drive awareness of this jobs board tool, along with providing veterans with other information and resources on security industry careers.

The Veterans Employment Exchange is reportedly designed to match veterans and separating military members with career opportunities in the security industry and is free to SIA members and all job seekers. SIA said it welcomes partnership and collaboration with member companies and individuals on volunteer outreach to attract veterans to careers in the security industry.

“SIA’s Veterans in Security community was launched this year with the goal to connect veterans who may be transitioning from their military service to the civilian workforce and introduce them to opportunities within the security industry,” said Jeff Huggins, chair of the SIA Veterans in Security Advisory Board; vice president, government programs and national accounts at ASSA ABLOY Door Security Solutions; and a U.S. Marine Corps veteran. “In order to facilitate that process, SIA is pleased to partner with OpLign, LLC, to deploy its artificial intelligence-enabled software platform that helps identify, quantify and connect this tremendous pool of qualified talent to the many open job positions that its member companies have on a daily basis.”

Huggins continued, “This platform, developed by U.S. Special Operations veterans, is considered one of the most robust platforms of its type, with the ability to uniquely translate and correlate their MOS and AFSC military job codes directly to open job descriptions within the security field. We look forward to working closely with OpLign and the security industry to help facilitate this logical fit for veterans as stewards of our nation’s security in the future.”