The authors examine the process the Air Force uses to determine manpower requirements, compare it with processes used in other services and organizations, and evaluate options for increasing the efficiency of the Air Force process....Loe edasi...
This tool describes RAND efforts to develop and employ personnel inventory models to conduct human capital management analyses. It should be of interest to analysts at the formative stage of a project to help in visualizing potential analytic paths....Loe edasi...
The Department of the Air Force is working to develop artificial intelligence and machine learning (ML) systems for mission areas and support functions, including human resource management. The authors reviewed how private-sector organizations eva...Loe edasi...
The Fiscal Year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act established an alternative framework for promotion policies for military officers. The authors examine whether shifting to this framework would be beneficial and how it would be impleme...Loe edasi...
Researchers created a software tool to help determine staffing needs in the U.S. Secret Service’s highest-priority administrative, professional, and technical functions. This guide describes the tool and its functions and documents procedure...Loe edasi...
In this report, the authors explore whether individual characteristics, economic and geographic factors, and the new Blended Retirement System can provide new insights into what predicts retention of maintenance, logistics, and munitions per...Loe edasi...
Miriam Matthews, Emily Hoch, John A Ausink, Shirley M Ross, Matthew Walsh, Albert A Robbert, John S Crown, David Schulker, Philip Armour, Irina a Chindea...
The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act introduced new options for officer career management for the military services. Researchers examine the potential utility of five of the new flexibilities for improving the management of Air Force...Loe edasi...
Appointment scrolls are required for officers to enter the services and to take on service in a different grade, military service, or component. This report contains recommendations for increasing the efficiency of the scroll creation proces...Loe edasi...
The Department of the Air Force is revamping the way it manages officer development and promotion. The Air Force Personnel Policy Simulation Tool models the effects of personnel policy changes to identify potentially adverse consequences....Loe edasi...
The authors identify useful steps toward modernization of officer career management in the military, examine constraints on reforms, and propose mitigating strategies and ways forward. This report addresses the issu...Loe edasi...
Researchers conducted a study to determine staffing needs in the U.S. Secret Service’s highest-priority administrative, professional, and technical functions. This report documents their methods and lessons learned for future workf...Loe edasi...
The authors examine the process the Air Force uses to determine manpower requirements, compare it with processes used in other services and organizations, and evaluate options for increasing the efficiency of the Air Force process....Loe edasi...
In this report, the authors summarize departmental views on the military officer career management policies examined in the two reports required by the 2018 National Defense Authorization Act and provide data to inform potential policy changes....Loe edasi...
This report documents analyses of two ways to supplement the traditional Air Force pilot career path to enhance force sustainment: a warrant officer component to fill pilot requirements or an aviation technical track for commissioned officer...Loe edasi...
This report addresses challenges for implementing new approaches to Air Force high-demand, high-attrition specialty recruiting, screening, and development processes, and takes a holistic approach to identifying methods to fill gaps in pro...Loe edasi...
This report assesses the effect that proposed military human resource management flexibilities could have on Air Force officer accessions, promotions, separations, and other force management outcomes....Loe edasi...
This report examines ways to improve reporting on promotion objectives for officers who have served on the Joint Staff or in the Office of the Secretary of Defense staff or are joint-qualified officers or Acquisition Corps members....Loe edasi...
Examines potential paths for overcoming the persistent and critical shortage of fighter pilots that the Air Force has faced over the past several decades....Loe edasi...
Examines the extent to which various manpower requirements processes employed by the U.S. Air Force are validated, coordinated, and consistent....Loe edasi...
Explores and clarifies issues that affect the suitability of missions for assignment to the reserve components of the U.S. Air Force, to better inform force composition decisions....Loe edasi...
Don Snyder, Albert A. Robbert, Bernard Fox, Kristin F. Lynch, Raymond E. Conley, John A. Ausink, Laura Werber, William Shelton, Sarah A. Nowak, Michael Thirtle...
Assesses the FY 2012 reorganization of the Air Force Material Command, which was undertaken as one of the initiatives to achieve mandated budget reductions by eliminating civilian manpower positions, thus achieving cost savings....Loe edasi...
