Download or read book Improving Development Teams to Support Deliberate Development of Air Force Officers written by Lawrence M. Hanser and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report examines the ways development teams assist Air Force officers with their professional development and assesses the future of these teams.
Download or read book Advancing the U S Air Force s Force Development Initiative written by S. Craig Moore and published by Rand Corporation. This book was released on 2008-01-23 with total page 57 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The following steps are recommended for consistent, efficient, and effective plans and means for improving the development of U.S. Air Force officers in their career fields: (1) identify the demand for jobs in the field grades-major, lieutenant colonel, and colonel; (2) ascertain the backgrounds that officers have accumulated (assess the supply); (3) compare supply with demand (gap analysis); and (4) plan ways to close the gaps.
Download or read book Air Force Leadership Study the Need for Deliberate Development written by Karen Currie and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-07-23 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On 23 November 2010, the Air Force chief of staff tasked the Air Force Research Institute (AFRI) to review current Air Force leader development, focusing on the preparation of Airmen for the evolving security challenges in the joint and service environments. This study identifies the characteristics desired for successful senior leaders over the next generation, reviews current Air Force officer development, and recommends changes as indicated to the current officer development process.
Download or read book Development Planning written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2014-11-10 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The development and application of technology has been an essential part of U.S. airpower, leading to a century of air supremacy. But that developmental path has rarely been straight, and it has never been smooth. Only the extraordinary efforts of exceptional leadership - in the Air Forces and the wider Department of Defense, in science and in industry - have made the triumphs of military airpower possible. Development Planning provides recommendations to improve development planning for near-term acquisition projects, concepts not quite ready for acquisition, corporate strategic plans, and training of acquisition personnel. This report reviews past uses of development planning by the Air Force, and offers an organizational construct that will help the Air Force across its core functions. Developmental planning, used properly by experienced practitioners, can provide the Air Force leadership with a tool to answer the critical question, Over the next 20 years in 5-year increments, what capability gaps will the Air Force have that must be filled? Development planning will also provide for development of the workforce skills needed to think strategically and to defectively define and close the capability gap. This report describes what development planning could be and should be for the Air Force.
Download or read book Strengthening U S Air Force Human Capital Management written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The USAir Force human capital management (HCM) system is not easily defined or mapped. It affects virtually every part of the Air Force because workforce policies, procedures, and processes impact all offices and organizations that include Airmen and responsibilities and relationships change regularly. To ensure the readiness of Airmen to fulfill the mission of the Air Force, strategic approaches are developed and issued through guidance and actions of the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Manpower, Personnel and Services and the Office of the Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Manpower and Reserve Affairs. Strengthening US Air Force Human Capital Management assesses and strengthens the various U.S. Air Force initiatives and programs working to improve person-job match and human capital management in coordinated support of optimal mission capability. This report considers the opportunities and challenges associated with related interests and needs across the USAF HCM system as a whole, and makes recommendations to inform improvements to USAF personnel selection and classification and other critical system components across career trajectories. Strengthening US Air Force Human Capital Management offers the Air Force a strategic approach, across a connected HCM system, to develop 21st century human capital capabilities essential for the success of 21st century Airmen.
Download or read book Improving the Development and Utilization of Air Force Space and Missile Officers written by Georges Vernez and published by RAND Corporation. This book was released on 2006 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: CD-ROM contains various oversized tables not found in the book.
Download or read book Selected Management Development Methods to Improve Air Force Officer Retention written by Erich C. Engelhard and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Improving the Effectiveness of Air Force Squadron Commanders written by John A. Ausink and published by . This book was released on 2018-06-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study used a variety of data sources and interviews with squadron, group, and wing commanders to develop recommendations for how the Air Force can address commander responsibilities, improve commander preparation, and refine resource monitoring.
Download or read book Sustaining the United States Air Force s Force Support Career Field Through Officer Workforce Planning written by Kevin O'Neill and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation recommends changes that can be made to the structure and management of the Air Force's Force Support officer career field to better align development of functional competencies with positional demand for those competencies. Data on Force Support relevant positions were coded on the competencies they require, and a RAND simulation tool provided the means to model the flow of personnel through these officer positions and the acquisition of competencies via on the job learning. A healthy and effective Force Support officer population plays an important role in delivering the overall Air Force mission, and this population of officers will be more effective when their accumulated competencies meet the demand for such competencies generated by Force Support billets. In this sense, this research is of immediate interest to Air Force and Force Support community leadership. While this dissertation focuses on improving the development of a specific population of personnel within the United States Air Force, the relevance of employed thought, methods, and analysis extends beyond United States Air Force career field management to any large organization. Determination and management of organizational human capital requirements and capacity to meet such requirements are necessary tasks to better assure organizational effectiveness. The findings should thus be of interest to personnel and policymakers concerned with the development and management of organizational human resources.
Download or read book Air Force Non Rated Technical Training written by Lisa M. Harrington and published by . This book was released on 2018-01-18 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report identifies opportunities for optimizing processes and policies in the U.S. Air Force nonrated technical training pipeline and recommends process and policy changes that could improve efficiency at all levels.
Download or read book A Deliberate Process written by Kenneth D. Carlson and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rapidly changing global environment of the twenty-first century requires properly developed strategic leaders. To meet these challenges officers are professionally developed throughout their careers as a result of legislative and related Officer Professional Military Education Policy. Is this sufficient in a contemporary and post Goldwater-Nichols environment? Deliberate education and training is required to properly develop military leaders that have the traits and competencies to deal with the nature of this changing environment. Due to the nature of the United States Air Force mission, the service tends to concentrate training of its officers on technical proficiency in their functional area rather than in broad leadership competencies, especially early in their careers. This project will study the USAF officer development program to determine if there is a deliberate process to develop strategic leaders.
Download or read book Building the Best Offensive and Defensive Cyber Workforce written by Chaitra M. Hardison and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-29 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: RAND researchers held discussions with enlisted and civilian cyberwarfare personnel to gather insights into how the U.S. Air Force could revamp cyber training, recruiting, and retention. This volume of the report summarizes training-related findings.
Download or read book Professional Development and Training written by United States. Air Force. Air Research and Development Command and published by . This book was released on 1960 with total page 24 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Strategies to Enhance Air Force Communication with Internal and External Audiences written by National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2016-01-27 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The U.S. Air Force (USAF) helps defend the United States and its interests by organizing, training, and equipping forces for operations in and through three distinct domains-air, space, and cyberspace. The Air Force concisely expresses its vision as "Global Vigilance, Global Reach, and Global Power for America." Operations within each of these domains are dynamic, take place over large distances, occur over different operational timelines, and cannot be routinely seen or recorded, making it difficult for Airmen, national decision makers, and the American People to visualize and comprehend the full scope of Air Force operations. As a result, the Air Force faces increasing difficulty in succinctly and effectively communicating the complexity, dynamic range, and strategic importance of its mission to Airmen and to the American people. To address this concern, the Chief of Staff of the USAF requested that the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine convene a workshop to explore options on how the Air Force can effectively communicate the strategic importance of the Service, its mission, and the role it plays in the defense of the United States. Participants worked to address the issues that a diverse workforce encompassing a myriad of backgrounds, education, and increasingly diverse current mission sets drives the requirement for a new communication strategy. The demographics of today's Air Force creates both a unique opportunity and a distinct challenge to Air Force leadership as it struggles to communicate its vision and strategy effectively across several micro-cultures within the organization and to the general public. This report summarizes the presentations and discussions from the workshop.
Download or read book The United States Air Force and the Culture of Innovation 1945 1965 written by Stephen B. Johnson and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Rise of the Functionals written by Aaron J. Oelrich and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This thesis examines the relationship between the Chief of Staff of the Air Force and the subordinate functional Air Force organizations that are responsible for officer development, the Developmental Teams (DTs). This paper analyzed the potential differences between what the CSAF viewed as important for officer professional military development with what the functional Mobility Air Force DTs focused on and emphasized. This thesis applied a principal-agent framework to study whether the MAF DT followed and implemented the CSAF's vision for selecting future Air Force leaders, especially regarding the selection process of MAF Intermediate Developmental Education (IDE) and Senior Developmental Education (SDE) nominations. This research determined that the MAF DTs are often resistant to the CSAF's desires. However, the MAF DT's resistance was not the result of a nefarious scheme or extreme functional parochialism. Instead, DT members resorted to individual and organizational biases and desires when confronted with a lack of explicit, salient, and durable CSAF preferences. Similarly, the absence of enforceable incentives, both rewards and punishment, contributed to the MAF's resistance. Finally, the CSAF had no concrete monitoring arrangements to ensure the MAF DT was executing his delineated desires. In turn, the MAF DT tended to default to its own preferences when faced with conflicting guidance from the CSAF. If the CSAF wants guidance to be followed, he must minimize the preference gap between him and the functionals as well as enforce the desired behavior with a clear and tangible monitoring and incentives arrangement."--Abstract.
Download or read book Air Force Leadership Study written by and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
