Cover; Preface; Contents; Figures; Tables; Summary; Acknowledgments; Advancing the U.S. Air Force's Force-Development Initiative; Introduction; History, Including Some Missteps; Developing Future Senior Leaders (General Officers and Colonels); Setting Force-Development Goals for Individual Career Fields; Next Steps for Force Development; Conclusion; Bibliography
Summary
A mismatch in the late 1990s between the qualifications needed for key general officer positions and the backgrounds of available candidates stimulated RAND research and then an extensive U.S. Air Force effort to improve the development of future senior leaders. In the past, most officers were managed within their career fields and were too narrowly specialized. This monograph summarizes the force development initiative's history and related research efforts that (a) identified colonel positions' needs for multiple (paired) occupational skills and set targets for the numbers of officers who sh
Notes
"Prepared for the United States Air Force. Approved for public release; distribution unlimited."
