The Air Force says it has 4,000 officers too many. USAF has been trimming its ranks over the past year to get down to its authorized end strength. The enlisted numbers are right, but USAF said it must cut another 4,000 officers to meet its Fiscal 2006 end strength of 357,400. The surplus is acute in the junior grade officer ranks, according to Brig. Gen. Glenn Spears, heading up force management policy. Want eligibility criteria, read here.
A new report from the Government Accountability Office calls for the Pentagon’s Chief Technology Officer to have budget certification authority over the military services’ research and development accounts—a move the services say would add a burdensome and unnecessary layer of bureaucracy.
