Download or read book Air Force written by U S Government Accountability Office (G and published by BiblioGov. This book was released on 2013-07 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pursuant to a congressional request, GAO examined two Air Force schools' implementation of 36 recommendations made by a congressional panel on military education to improve professional military officer education programs. GAO found that the: (1) Air Force intermediate school took actions to implement or partially implement 30 of the 31 applicable recommendations; (2) intermediate school had no plans to implement the use of officer efficiency reports instead of training reports, since it believed that training reports effectively reflected students' academic accomplishments against course objectives; (3) Air Force senior school took actions to implement or partially implement 29 of the 32 applicable recommendations; (4) senior school had no plans to implement the use of officer efficiency reports in place of training reports since it believed that training reports were better suited to the academic environment; (5) senior school had no plans to implement a faculty exchange program with the service academies, since faculty members from the academies lacked the necessary expertise in the senior school's curriculum; and (6) senior school had no plans to implement the distinguished graduate program at this time.
Download or read book Air Force written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Marine Corps Status of Recommendations on Officers Professional Military Education written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Professional Military Education for Air Force Officers written by Air University (U.S.). Press and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Professional Military Education for Air Force Officers Comments and Criticisms written by Air Press and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2012-08-16 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is based on an examination of professional military education (PME) for United States Air Force officers that was conducted in 1988 at the Airpower Research Institutes (ARI), Air University Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education (AUCADRE), Maxwell AFT, Alabama. The original study researched the history and evolution of the Air Force's PME systems, assessed the current status of Air Force PME, and compared the PME systems of the other US military services to that of the Air Force. This extract, however, restricts itself to the history of Air Force PME between 1946 and 1987. Originally, seven ARI officers, including the editors of this study, worked on the project. Collectively, they examined more than 345 documents, - letters, regulations, manual, studies, reports, catalogs, and histories - in an effort to fully understand the criticisms made of Air Force PME throughout its history. The capstone of Air Force PME is Air University (AU), located at Maxwell Air Force Base. AU consists of three schools: Squadron Officer School, Air Command Staff College, and Air War College. During the more than 40 years examined here, PME became thoroughly institutionalized. Further, the quality of professional education offered by AU was constantly assessed and reassessed. External observers (those outside the Air Force) and internal observers (both military and civilian, assigned from within the Air Force) regularly examined the qualifications and teaching methods of the schools' faculty, as well as the schools' curricula. Throughout this period, PME's purpose was the subject of ongoing discussion: whether it should provide broad or specialized instruction and whether it should address only military issues or include political and related topics. These questions remain unanswered because the Air Force has never effectively defined what it wanted its officers to know or to be. Although the assessments described in this book are not exhaustive, they are representative of both internal and external commentary over the entire four-decade period. Internal criticism is especially difficult to assess since it is often only implicit in recommendations for changes made by the various groups that conducted studies of PME. In addition, internal Air Force reviews of AU and the schools tended to become less critical as the schools became institutionalized, thus making an objective assessment even more difficult. On the other hand, external criticisms - particularly those from non-Department of Defense observers - were prone to find fault with PME. These evaluations were more likely to be explicitly critical, often bluntly so, and they too were perhaps not wholly objective. This study seeks a balance between the two types of criticisms and attempts to determine how they complement each other.
Download or read book Professional military education for air force officers written by Richard L. Davis and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study is based on an examination of professional military education (PME) for United States Air Force officers that was conducted in 1988 at the Airpower Research Institute (ARI), Air University Center for Aerospace Doctrine, Research, and Education (AUCADRE), Maxwell AFB, Alaoam% The original study researched the history and evolution of the Air Force's PME system, assessed the current status of Air Force PMB, and compared the PME systems of the other US military services to that of the Air Force. This extract, however, restricts itself to the history of Air Force PME between 1946 and 1987. Originally, seven ARI officers, including the editors of this study, worked on the project. Collectively, they examined more than 345 documents-letters, regulations, manuals, studies, reports, catalogs, and histories-in an effort to fully understand the criticisms made of Air Force PME throughout its history.
Download or read book Professional Military Education written by Michelle P. Jacobs and published by Nova Science Publishers. This book was released on 2013-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines officer in-residence professional military education (PME) as a critical investment in the most important element of our military -- people. The primary purpose of PME is to develop military officers, throughout their careers, for the rigorous intellectual demands of complex contingencies and major conflicts. The authors discuss professional military education two decades after the Goldwater-Nichols Act and the Skelton Panel and provide statements from important hearings on continued engagement.
Download or read book Military Education written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Air Force Professional Military Education written by Lawrence M. Hanser and published by . This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional military education is a complex system that accommodates thousands of Air Force officers yearly. The Air Force needs to rebalance the assignment of students to Air University and to other PME or fellowship programs outside the Air Force.
Download or read book Army written by and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A primary objective of the Goldwater-Nichols Reorganization Act of 1986 is to strengthen combined and joint operations of the various military services. To fulfill this objective, the House Armed Services Committee established the Panel on Military Education in November 1987 to report its findings and recommendations regarding the ability of DOD to develop joint specialty officers through its professional military education systems. The Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, established policies, programs, guidelines, and procedures for coordinating, among other things, the joint professional military education of members of the U.S. armed forces. This guidance is contained in the Military Education Policy Document that was issued in May 1990. Military departments are required to incorporate this guidance into their own professional military education systems.
Download or read book Army written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 47 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Professional Military Education written by and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Education Actions on Recommendations Involving Institute for National Strategic Studies and Capstone written by United States. General Accounting Office and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Survey of Air Force Officer Management Activities and Evaluation of Professional Military Education Requirements written by Joseph Eugene Morsh and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Officer Education written by John W. Pearse and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Air Force Professional Military Education (PME) program is stuck in the academic traditions of the past. In an information era with exponential technological growth, the Air Force PME programs are still teaching linear thinking with a historical orientation. In Air War College, less than 10 out of over 700 contact hours are devoted to future thinking and technology. Air Force leaders are expected to envision the future and adapt to surprise. Are we preparing them for this task? Exponential change refers to a compounded rate of increase. The world has entered a period where an exponential increase in new information and technology will continue through 2035 causing significant changes in society, and thus warfare. Adding complexity are current trends toward conflict that permeates all aspects of society. Some futurists see a transformation from an information age to a virtual age within the next 30 years with as yet indiscernible major changes to a globalized virtual society. Higher education is evolving toward a learner-centered education teaching a workforce committed to lifelong learning. Business seeks people with the ability to apply creative critical thinking and a future orientation in a collaborative environment. The Air Force will require even more of its leaders to anticipate and adapt to rapidly changing threats. As war is a human enterprise, we must transform the way we educate our leaders to prepare them for the complex world of 2035. First, the need for Air Force leaders with discerning vision is critical. Current PME stresses the study of the past as a tool to enlighten the path to the future. Future studies should be incorporated in the curriculum in conjunction with historical study across the continuum of education (COE) to provide Air Force leaders with tools to visualize potential futures. Second, Air Force officers will likely face surprising or unique situations in the future due to the complexity that will permeate future society; they must learn skills to adapt quickly. Decision-making exercises, primarily in the form of wargames, should be added across the COE to build future leader adaptability skills. Third, the exponential increase in technology requires technical literacy for future leaders to thrive. Threats in the future will include unique combinations of readily available advanced commercial technology. Air Force officers need exposure to current and future technology across the COE to open the aperture on the realm of the possible. This should include exposure to industry and the acquisition process. The focus should not be on specific technical skills but on the capabilities and limitations of technology to enable Air Force officers to make educated judgments on the possible implications of future military capabilities and threats. Fourth, lifelong learning must become an inculcated reality. The skill sets and knowledge base officers will require to deal with future challenges necessitates a continuous learning process throughout an officer's career. A broad knowledge base will also be essential to enable future Air Force officers to rapidly adapt to new complex situations. Quality distance learning opportunities are available now from civilian institutions - the Air Force program should at a minimum, emulate them. Finally, these recommendations should not be incorporated individually in a piecemeal fashion. The Air Force requires a comprehensive strategic implementation plan. Air Education and Training Command took a good first step in the On Learning white paper by advocating transformation to a virtual reality enterprise. The content within the virtual reality system needs equal consideration. A chief learning officer (CLO) should be identified and empowered to make immediate changes. The CLO should consider the future operating environment and determine the attributes and skill sets required for current and future Air Force personnel. With the desired outcomes determined, effective approaches and curriculum to develop these characteristics should be developed and communicated in a strategic force development plan. Officers who will lead the Air Force in 2035 are already in the current PME system. The traditional Air Force PME factory must give way to lifelong education across academic disciplines to equip our future leaders with a broad knowledge base. The current in-residence programs are hampered by redundant core courses, which can be covered through mandatory distance learning. PME transformation requires a cultural change within the Air Force that accepts exponential change as a fact of life and in turn values lifelong learning as a necessity for future success. Creating a sense of urgency about the need for transformation is equally necessary. Air Force PME requires urgent action to successfully transform."--Abstract from web site.
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 Perspectives in the History of Military Education and Professionalism written by Richard A. Preston and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
