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Education and Labor Market Initiatives in Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, and the United Arab Emirates: Executive Summary
Summarizes the education and labor market initiatives implemented or under way in four countries in the Arab region--Lebanon, Oman, Qatar, and the Uni...
Workforce planning is an activity intended to ensure that investment in human capital results in the timely capability to effectively carry out an org...
Ranges and airspace for Air Force training purposes are national resources for which the Air Force must present a credible claim. To help the Air Forc...
System Interactions and Synchronization Strategies
A fundamental goal of the Air Force personnel system is to ensure that the manpower inventory, by Air Force specialty code and grade, matches requirem...
Reviewing the Fundamentals
Focusing primarily on the officer structure, this technical report provides a brief primer on the specialty-classification system, summarizes major ch...
Examines the factors influencing the cost-effectiveness of civilianization--in particular, the way in which workforce substitution occurs, and the eff...
An Analysis of Recruiting, Screening, and Development Processes
The U.S. Air Force's special operations and combat support specialties in the enlisted force are among the highest in demand by the service yet have p...
This volume presents an analytical structure developed by RAND and the Air Combat Command in order to help the US Air Force articulate its aggregate n...
The relative costs of operating and supporting Air Force active- and reserve-component units are an important consideration in programming the mix of ...
Background and Methods
Organizations such as the United States Air Force, which encompass a wide variety of operational, technical, and business-oriented activities, are com...
Modeling Potential Policies
"The Air Force faces both internal and external challenges to move toward greater flexibility in managing its active-duty military workforce. The rese...
The Fiscal Year 2019 National Defense Authorization Act established an alternative framework for promotion policies for military officers. The authors...
A Framework for Vetting Use Cases with Example Applications, Volume 2
The Department of the Air Force is seeking artificial intelligence and machine learning systems for mission areas and support functions. The authors r...
A Focus on Agile Combat Support
Examines the extent to which various manpower requirements processes employed by the U.S. Air Force are validated, coordinated, and consistent....
Options for More-Responsive Processes
The authors examine the process the Air Force uses to determine manpower requirements, compare it with processes used in other services and organizati...
This report describes a process for achieving and maintaining the balance between requirements for rated personnel and inventory. The process includes...
Additional Steps Toward Modernization
The authors identify useful steps toward modernization of officer career management in the military, examine constraints on reforms, and propose mitig...
Examines potential paths for overcoming the persistent and critical shortage of fighter pilots that the Air Force has faced over the past several deca...
Methods and Lessons Learned
Researchers conducted a study to determine staffing needs in the U.S. Secret Service's highest-priority administrative, professional, and technical fu...
Examining the Potential Use of New Career Management Flexibilities
The 2019 National Defense Authorization Act introduced new options for officer career management for the military services. Researchers examine the po...
A Warrant Officer Component Or an Aviation Technical Track?
This report documents analyses of two ways to supplement the traditional Air Force pilot career path to enhance force sustainment: a warrant officer c...
Implications for Career Field Health and Demographic Diversity
The Department of the Air Force is revamping the way it manages officer development and promotion. The Air Force Personnel Policy Simulation Tool mode...
Analysis and Results
Over the past ten years, maintenance career fields in the U.S. Air Force have been negatively affected by a series of events that have resulted in an ...
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 Secreta...
The Rumsfeld Model for Secretary of Defense Involvement
During his second tenure as Secretary of Defense, Donald H. Rumsfeld considerably revised the process for selecting senior U.S. military officers for ...
Under 37 United States Code 1008(b), the President of the United States is required to direct a review, at least every four years, of the principles a...
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...
A User Guide for Workforce Staffing Models
Researchers created a software tool to help determine staffing needs in the U.S. Secret Service's highest-priority administrative, professional, and t...
"The Compensation, Accessions, and Personnel Management (CAPM) system provides action officers and analysts with a powerful tool for exploring the int...
Are They Real? Will They Last?
In recent years, the Department of Defense (DoD) has placed increasing faith in competitive sourcing to make its operations more efficient and effecti...
2001 Results
Presents RAND's assessment of the first workforce-planning activity in the defense acquisition community in 2001 and makes recommendations for future ...
Appointment scrolls are required for initial appointment of officers and for reappointment in a different grade, military service, or component. In so...
What should Air Force decisionmakers consider when making force mix deliberations across each element of the total force-active, Air Force Reserve (AF...
Impacts on Civil Service Employees
Outsourcing of commercial activities in the Department of Defense (DoD) occurs within a well-defined legal & policy framework. This framework creates ...
United States Air Force career field managers (CFMs) annually predict the number of billet vacancies that will require an officer who holds an advance...
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