The Air Force wants to have 85 percent of personnel transactions by airmen conducted via the Web—no more treks to the local personnel office. To help enable this wonderful new world, the Air Force plans to reorganize base personnel functions under an initiative called PSD, or Personnel Services Delivery. McConnell AFB, Kan., will be testing PSD for about six months. What’s it all about? For starters, some squadrons will become flights; family support centers will become airmen and family readiness flights; and force development flights will comprise career assistance advisors, PME and other education, and first-term airman centers.
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.
