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Defense Department continues to post excellent recruiting results so far for Fiscal 2011, with all active and reserve components, except for the Air National Guard, meeting or exceeding their year-to-date accession goals through February. Even the Air Guard is tracking only nine recruits short of meeting its goal of having 2,779 new accessions in place through February, according to DOD’s newest figures released Tuesday. USAF’s active duty force has exactly met its fiscal year-to-date goal of bringing in 11,728 accessions. The Air Force Reserve, with 3,762 new recruits so far, remains 14 ahead of its year-to-date goal, as it was last month. (See also the previous month’s statistics.)
The Air Force is finally poised to deal with the “Valley of Death” problem—the gulf between the invention of an innovative new technology and its deployment at scale to warfighters— leaders of the department’s science and technology enterprise told defense industry executives Aug 27.
