There
are 329,638 airmen on active duty and 138,801 full-time USAF civilian employees, according to the Air Force Personnel Center’s newly published demographics data, current as of Sept. 30. In the active duty ranks are 66,201 officers, with an average age of 35, and 263,437 enlisted personnel, with an average age of 29. Women are 19.2 percent of the force. There are 14,083 active duty pilots, 4,074 navigators, 1,426 air battle managers, and 30,075 non-rated line officers. Slightly more than 20 percent of the force is currently assigned overseas (including Alaska and Hawaii) and 59.2 percent of airmen are married. The officers have served on average 11 years, compared to 8 years for enlisted airmen. The average age of an Air Force civilian is 47.1 years. Almost one-third, or 31.6 percent, of USAF civilians are female. (Randolph report by SSgt. Steve Grever)
The Air Force on March 12 awarded contract modifications worth a combined $2.4 billion to Boeing to procure an undisclosed number of E-7 Wedgetail as part of the program's engineering and manufacturing development phase and continue work on the airborne battle management aircraft’s radar.