The Air Force has identified initial skill pairings—complementary jobs outside a primary field—for each officer career field as part of the service’s force development program. The goal, says Lt. Col. Harold Huguley, chief of force development at the Air Force Personnel Center, is to begin “development of officers early on to acquire those skills we’ll need 10 to 15 years down the road.” (Read our article on force development here.)
A three-month continuing resolution that ended in December inflicted less pain on the Department of the Air Force than it had expected, as procurement and construction continue in the new year. The federal government operated under a stopgap spending measure that stretched from the beginning of the fiscal year on…