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How airmen are assigned jobs gets a fresh look from new Air Force panel
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A new Air Force panel will rethink how the service assigns airmen to new jobs, including for troops in complicated situations like dual-military relationships, Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force JoAnne Bass said Monday.
“We’re about to have an assignment working group,” she said in a livestreamed question-and-answer session with Chief of Staff Gen. Charles “CQ” Brown. “What do we expect assignments to look like as we look into the future of our Air Force? What should assignments look like in 2030? We’re kind of backward planning.”
While Bass did not elaborate on the issues the group will tackle, she stressed the Air Force wants to make the assignment process more flexible and transparent. She pointed to her own experiences hashing out military assignments with her husband, Rahn Bass, a retired Army first sergeant.
“I felt like the [Air Force Personnel Center] was very transparent,” Bass said. “They will do everything that they can to ensure that families can stay together, to include sister services.”
That effort will go hand-in-hand with a new enlisted force development plan due out this summer to better shape the careers of those airmen. Career policy discussions come as the Air Force considers how to meet its combat and peacetime needs while improving quality of life for servicemembers and their families.
Service leaders anticipate a future without much growth in the total workforce. Some career fields are stretched thin by low staffing, high turnover, and a hectic operations schedule, while the Air Force faces record-high retention at the same time.
To balance out the force, the service has suggested allowing airmen to retrain into jobs that are hurting for people, as well as offering early separation and transfers into the Air Force Reserve.
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The service is also trying to adjust to the changing needs of military families, seeing more instances of troops marrying each other, couples where women are the military member, and families where both partners want to work.
Leaders have already begun tweaking some aspects of the assignment process, like growing its searchable online database of job opportunities, and better connecting airmen with bases where they most want to serve.
Earlier this year, the Air Force lengthened the amount of time airmen and Space Force guardians without dependents spend at certain bases overseas from 24 to 36 months. Stretching out those tours of duty at 21 locations is meant to bolster training and better integrate troops into the local community, the service said.
Brown likened the considerations to other personnel management changes the Air Force has rolled out, including a recent overhaul of the promotion system.
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“There’s going to be some folks that’ll get a little upset … but the key part is, what are we doing to ensure we are helping our airmen?” he said.
The service is also taking a fresh look at professional military education, Bass said, hoping to create good supervisors as well as good followers. Brown suggested there’s an opportunity for leaders to learn how to give their subordinates helpful feedback for better professional development.
Perhaps there are certain tasks the Air Force can move off of its plate because they aren’t unique to the service, Bass added.
“I think our manpower standards and how we look at managing manpowe need a relook as well,” she said. “Every unit can do that at their level.”
Rachel Cohen is the editor of Air Force Times. She joined the publication as its senior reporter in March 2021. Her work has appeared in the Washington Post, the Frederick News-Post (Md.), Air and Space Forces Magazine, Inside Defense, Inside Health Policy and elsewhere.
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The Assignment Management System (AMS) is a web application that houses multiple applications in support of officer assignments, enlisted assignments, commander responsibilities, and individual Air Force members. Users have access to a portion of their own personnel data and the ability to use manning tools, volunteer for available assignments, and review career field information using AMS.
You are accessing a U.S. Government (USG) Information System (IS) that is provided for USG-authorized use only. -The USG routinely intercepts and monitors communications on this IS for purposes including, but not limited to, penetration testing, COMSEC monitoring, network operations and defense, personnel misconduct (PM), law enforcement (LE ...
AFPC changes AMS access procedures. Published Dec. 19, 2005. RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- In a recent change to improve security and standardize access controls, access to the Assignment Management System is now controlled by the Air Force Personnel Center's Secure Web site. Airmen can access the AFPC Secure site through the public ...
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas (AFNS) -- The Air Force's Personnel Center is adopting an innovative web-based platform to support the officer assignment system that aims to increase flexibility and transparency for officers and commanders within the assignment process. Inspired by the Nobel Prize-winning National Residency Matching Program, this key talent management technology ...
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas (AFNS) -- The Air Force's Personnel Center is adopting an innovative web-based platform to support the officer assignment system that aims to increase flexibility and transparency for officers and commanders within the assignment process. Inspired by the Nobel Prize-winning National Residency Matching Program, this key talent management technology ...
RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- Active duty Air Force members -- officers and enlisted -- who log on to the Air Force Personnel Center's Assignment Management System will find a new Web application that makes navigation faster and easier. "It's all part of AFPC's on-going effort to increase service to our customers," said Master Sgt. Brad Bryant, Assignment Systems Management ...
Apr 19, 2021. Chief Master Sergeant of the Air Force JoAnne S. Bass says the Air Force wants to make the assignment process more flexible and transparent. (William Birchfield/Air Force) A new Air ...
Eventually, the Air Force plans to sunset Assignment Management System (AMS) and moving all special assignments to Talent Marketplace will get us one step closer to that goal, Johnson said. "The special assignments platform will be used for emerging requirements that require immediate fills," said Capt. Sean Freitag, Talent Marketplace Cell ...
Air Force Instruction (DAFI) 36-2110, Total Force Assignments By order of the Secretary of the Air Force, this Department of the Air Force Guidance Memorandum (DAFGM) immediately implements changes to DAFI 36-2110, ... the Air Force Records Management System. This memorandum becomes void after one year has elapsed from the date of this
This document provides education and training requirements, support resources, and career progression for Air Force personnel specialty 3F0X1. It consists of two parts: Part I explains how to use the plan and Part II identifies training standards, courses, and materials.
A very brief description of the assignment process. TLDR; The Air Force's priority is cycling people through OCONUS spots and back, and also through special duty spots and back to regular AF duties. Most assignment actions happen due to one of these. If you want to get an assignment, then volunteer for OCONUS and/or apply for special assignments.
Eventually, the Air Force plans to sunset Assignment Management System, or AMS, and moving all special assignments to Talent Marketplace will get us one step closer to that goal, Johnson said. "The special assignments platform will be used for emerging requirements that require immediate fills," said Capt. Sean Freitag, Talent Marketplace ...
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas (AFNS) -- Air Force officers in the ranks of lieutenant colonel and below in all Air Force specialty codes, with the exception of judge advocate general, will use the Talent Marketplace web-based platform as their assignment system for the Winter 2019-2020 officer assignment cycle. The Air Force will use this key talent management technology to publish ...
AMS (Assignment Management System) The Assignment Management System, is an online program used for assignment preferences and career management for officer and enlisted Airmen. AMS also contains the EQUAL-Plus listings which are updated on a weekly basis and are arranged by grade and AFSC. AMS Contacts: DSN 665-5004 Commercial (800)616-3775 TDD ...
The USG routinely intercepts and monitors communications on this IS for purposes including, but not limited to, penetration testing, COMSEC monitoring, network operations and defense, personnel misconduct (PM), law enforcement (LE), and counterintelligence (CI) investigations. At any time, the USG may inspect and seize data stored on this IS.
The Air Force Reserve is an integral part of our country's dominant presence in air, space and cyberspace, contributing daily to the Total Force mission and is actively involved in global operations. DPAA is responsible for executing 9.3K annual assignment actions in support of 6.1K Active Guard Reserve (AGR) and 7.2K Individual Mobilization ...
Active duty Air Force members, officers and enlisted, who log on to the Air Force Personnel Center's Assignment Management System after March 21 will find a new web application that makes navigation faster and easier. "It's all part of AFPC's on-going, News, features and commentaries pertaining to the Air Force Personnel Center.
Total Force Assignments outlines the procedures for assigning and utilizing members of the AFR. Active Component, Air National Guard (ANG), Individual Ready Reserve (IRR), prior service, members returning from the Voluntary Limited Period of Active Duty (VLPAD) program, and other military branch members are considered Accessions and must apply for an IR position through a Total Force Service ...
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The Pentagon's Hall of Heroes echoed with applause April 8, as four Airmen received the Lance P. Sijan Leadership Award. Maj. Kristen Ober, Capt. Marc D. Esposito, Master Sgt. Thomas R. Johnson and Staff Sgt. Amos Kim were honored for their exceptional leadership qualities, embodying the fundamental values of the U.S. Air Force.
JOINT BASE SAN ANTONIO-RANDOLPH, Texas -- The Air Force's Personnel Center is adopting an innovative web-based platform to support the officer assignment system that aims to increase flexibility and transparency for officers and commanders within the assignment process. Inspired by the Nobel Prize-winning National Residency Matching Program, this key talent management technology, called ...