The Air Force has identified initial skill pairings—complementary jobs outside a primary field—for each officer career field as part of the service’s force development program. The goal, says Lt. Col. Harold Huguley, chief of force development at the Air Force Personnel Center, is to begin “development of officers early on to acquire those skills we’ll need 10 to 15 years down the road.” (Read our article on force development 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.
