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... Potential adversaries pose different military problems, each with advanced technologies available that rival those of the United States. The Air Force will need to meet this new challenge with a numerically much smaller force than it enjoyed in the Cold War.
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... . THE FLIGHT PLAN: THREE PRIORITIES To assist the Air Force in preparing now for the challenges its Airmen will face in the future, this report offers a Flight Plan to strengthen the USAF human capital management (HCM)
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... In conducting its study, the committee received input from numerous stakeholders located across the United States who provided unique perspectives representing multiple communities inside and outside the Air Force. Addi­ionally, the committee also t considered relevant information provided by invited expert speakers from academia, government, and private industry, as well as numerous previously published products including published research and professional guidelines and standards and Air Force doctrine, strategic documents, and studies.
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... The resulting ecosystem model makes very clear the cascading or rippling effects of policy decisions felt throughout the organization, sometimes with far-reaching and unanticipated effects. THE PATH AHEAD The recommendations and action items of this report's Flight Plan offer the Air Force a strategic approach, across a connected HCM system, to develop 21st century human capital capabilities essential for the success of 21st century Airmen.
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... Available: https://docs.house.gov/meetings/AS/ AS03/20200303/110633/HHRG-116-AS03-Bio-ThompsonD-20200303.pdf. United States Air Force.
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