The Warner Robins Air Logistics Center in Georgia is looking ahead to “a very tight fiscal environment” for Fiscal 2008 and so wants to offer up to 225 civilians the opportunity to take voluntary early retirement or separation, says Robert Williams, deputy director of personnel. Anyone who takes this buyout would have to leave federal service by Nov. 2, reports Holly Birchfield. Just last month, the center indicated that it had forestalled nonvoluntary measures to reduce its workforce for this fiscal year, which ends Sept. 30. With this new voluntary effort, the center expects to be able “to refresh and replenish” its aging workforce, while staying within expected funding levels, says Williams.
The Pentagon announced new long-term agreements with four defense companies May 13 to develop and produce large numbers of low-cost cruise missiles. And while the effort will focus mostly on the Army to start, it pairs with Air Force efforts to find more affordable munitions.