Review of the U.S. Department of Defense Air, Space, and Supporting Information Systems Science and Technology Program (2001) / Chapter Skim
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5. Science and Technology Workforce
5. Science and Technology Workforce
Pages 38-43
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The committee notes, however, that the reductions in DoD S&T funding also put downward pressure on the support contractor workforce. 38 from 1996 to 2000, the percentage decrease in AFRL personnel was twice that of the DoD or the Air Force as a whole.
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. DECLINING AIR FORCE MILITARY S&T PERSONNEL For decades, DoD's policy has been to assign uniformed personnel to S&T activities, both in laborato
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,, . FIGURE 5-3 Cash compensation for Department of Defense RDT&E personnel versus industry RDT&E personnel as of 1998.
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The Air Force report recommended moving AFRL toward a GOCA model: "The key idea is to have a significant core group of excellent civil servants who bring continuity coupled in an integrated team with excellent collaborators who bring agility and fresh ideas" (CSAF, 1999~. The non-Civil Service collaborators would be in the AFRL workforce for a shorter term than the core civilian workers and would include postdoctoral associates, term-appointment and tempo
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Like the DSB report, the Air Force report viewed the outside collaborators as bringing with them their home organizations' standards of excellence. The Air Force report also observed that Civil Service rules work against DoD S&T workforce quality and agreed with the DSB recommendation that 50 percent of AFRL's workforce should be provided by rotating outside Civil Service sources.
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Career Air Force officers with the requisite backgrounds should be encouraged to serve tours of duty at the Air Force Research Laboratory or other laboratories and to pursue advanced technical degrees. Assignments to a research laboratory should be considered a positive step in consideration for promotion to general officer rank.
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