Air Force institutional requirements : opportunities for improving the efficiency of sourcing, managing, and manning corporate requirements / Lisa M. Harrington, [and 4 others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Harrington, Lisa M., author.

Contributor:

United States. Air Force. Deputy Chief of Staff/Operations, Plans & Readiness, sponsor.

Project Air Force (U.S.). Manpower, Personnel, and Training Program, issuing body.

Rand Corporation, publisher.

Series:

Research report (Rand Corporation) ; RR-1596-AF.

Research report ; RR-1596-AF

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Air Force--Officers--Training of.

United States.

United States. Air Force--Personnel management.

United States. Air Force--Occupational specialties.

United States. Air Force.

Military planning--United States.

Military planning.

Personnel management.

Armed Forces--Occupational specialties.

Armed Forces--Officers--Training of.

Armed Forces--Personnel management.

Genre:

Technical reports.

Physical Description:

xix, 57 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.

Other Title:

Opportunities for improving the efficiency of sourcing, managing, and manning corporate requirements

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND Corporation, [2017]

Summary:

"In an era of force reductions and shrinking military budgets, the U.S. Air Force has found it increasingly difficult to fill manpower authorizations--not only operational and staff positions that support mission demands but also additional requirements for particular career fields. One source of these additional requirements is institutional requirements, or manpower requirements that do not align with a traditional, functional career field but are needed to support the Air Force institution. Examples include recruiter, instructor, generalist staff officer, and operational support positions. The challenge for career field managers is that institutional requirements compete for the same pool of personnel. These assignments may also affect the career development of individual officers. Through discussions with key stakeholders in the Air Force and the other services, consultations with industry experts, and a review of data on the current and historical use of institutional requirements and associated processes in the Air Force, this report documents how the Air Force could reduce the impact of filling these positions on traditional career fields while ensuring that the organizations that depend on institutional requirements are staffed with the qualified personnel they need. To achieve this goal, the Air Force will need to pursue multiple strategies, such as a periodic review and elimination of positions that are persistently vacant or no longer valid requirements, steps to make more personnel available to fill these positions, converting some types of institutional requirements to their own career fields, or changing how institutional requirements are managed."--Publisher's description.

Contents:

Preface

Figures and Tables

Summary

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1. Introduction

2. Institutional Requirements Overview: The Institutional Requirement Tax and Draft

Institutional Requirement Positions

3. Reducing the Impact of Institutional Requirements: Address Overall Air Force Undermanning

Reconcile Authorizations for Institutional Requirements

Expand the Pool of Officers Available to Fill IRs

Consider Alternative Workforce Options

Address Stigma Surrounding Institutional Requirements

Adopt a Centralized Management Structure

4. Assessment of Individual Institutional Requirement Categories: Strategy: Regional Affairs Strategist (16FX) and Political-Military Affairs Strategist (16PX)

Operations Staff: Operations Staff Officer (16GX) and Planning and Programming (16RX)

Accession Source Command: USAFA Cadet Squadron Commander (80C0) and Officer Training School Commander (81C0)

Academic Instruction and Management: Instructor (81T0) and Academic Program Manager (82A0)

Recruiter (83R0)

Operations C2 and Management: Operations Management (86M0) and C2 (86P0)

Inspections (87XX)

Senior Leader Support: Aide-de-Camp (88A0) and Executive Officer (97E0)

5. Conclusions and Recommendations

Appendix. Manning Levels for Core Career Fields

References.

Notes:

"Prepared for the United States Air Force."

See also companion report RR-1302-AF: "Using RAND's Military Career Model to Evaluate the Impact of Institutional Requirements on the Air Force Space Officer Career Field."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 55-57).

ISBN:

9780833095930

0833095935

OCLC:

989056755