Development of Air Force Acquisition Officers

<p>One of the top priorities for both the Secretary of the Air Force and the Chief of Staff is 'Recapturing Acquisition Excellence.' The most effective way to reach this goal is through a talented knowledgeable and exceptional acquisition workforce. While there are plans to improve the acquisition workforce we are currently not doing enough to develop our acquisition officers specifically scientists engineers and program managers. The AF must ensure it has the right policies and practices to shape which young officers enter the AF in these career fields. Once the right type of acquisition officers are placed into the right organizations at the right amount we must ensure we focus on the critical stage of their development: when officers are young lieutenants and captains. Proper development at this junior stage must focus on supervision training and career broadening assignments. While early development is critical we must also continue to develop acquisition officers as they grow into majors lieutenant colonels and colonels. These senior acquisition officers must be given the promotion and leadership opportunities to enable them to be leaders both in the acquisition corps as well as across the AF. Through focused development the AF will have a capable motivated intelligent acquisition officer corps ready to lead the DoD acquisition community and better able to recapture AF acquisition excellence.</p><p>This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore you will see the original copyright references library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world) and other notations in the work.</p><p>This work is in the public domain in the United States of America and possibly other nations. Within the United States you may freely copy and distribute this work as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.</p><p>As a reproduction of a historical artifact this work may contain missing or blurred pages poor pictures errant marks etc. Scholars believe and we concur that this work is important enough to be preserved reproduced and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.</p>