VIERS Military History Service

<p>The VIERS Military History service provides Veteran military history information that is consolidated across multiple data sources. This consolidated data is provided as part of the VRM initiative to improve the speed, accuracy and efficiency with which information is exchanged between Veterans and VA. This information is exposed to the VIERS Consumers via a SOAP based web service. It queries the VA/DoD Identity Repository (VADIR) and Corporate Database (CorpDB) repositories to retrieves electronic copies of military service information including periods of service, periods of captivity, and military pay. The VRM VIERS Military History Service also provides the capability to update the VA data repositories with unverified periods of service and unverified periods of captivity. Service provides a view of all military history to date(historical, current, retirement, Line of Duty/WII) for a partiular person such as branch, entry dates, separation dates, discharge characters. Provide definitive view of Veterans Military Service Information- Read access to veteran military service information (electronic DD-214/215)- Current member DoD affiliation status and information (Active duty, Guard/Reserve, Retired, Dependent)- DoD Eligibility and Entitlement (Insurance, Education)- DFAS Military Payments (severance, separation, retirement)- Supports submission by veterans of supplemental evidence of service (Vietnam Era)- Medals, awards</p>

VIERS军事历史服务整合了来自多个数据源的老兵军事历史信息。作为VRM（退伍军人信息交换速度、准确性和效率提升）计划的一部分，该整合数据得以提供，旨在优化退伍军人与美国退伍军人管理局（VA）之间信息交流的效率。该信息通过基于SOAP的Web服务向VIERS用户公开。服务通过查询VA/DoD身份库（VADIR）和企业数据库（CorpDB）存储库，检索包括服役期、被俘期和军事薪酬在内的军事服务电子副本。VRM VIERS军事历史服务还具备更新VA数据存储库中未经核实的服役期和被俘期的功能。服务提供了一名特定个人（如部队、入职日期、离职日期、退役资格）至目前为止的所有军事历史视图（历史、当前、退休、职责/第二次世界大战期间）。提供退伍军人军事服务信息的确定性视图——读取退伍军人军事服务信息（电子DD-214/215文件）——当前国防部成员的隶属状态和信息（现役、国民警卫队/预备役、退休、家属）——国防部资格和权利（保险、教育）——DFAS军事支付（离职、退休）——支持退伍军人提交补充服务证据（越南战争时期）——勋章、奖项。

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背景与挑战

背景概述

VIERS Military History Service数据集整合了退伍军人的军事历史信息，包括服役期、被俘期和军饷等，通过SOAP Web服务提供查询和更新功能。该数据集由VA OIT Open Data管理，访问受限，受隐私法和HIPAA保护。