RAND researchers developed a framework of 14 categories of cross-cultural behaviors and used it to design a survey of recently deployed airmen about the importance of such behaviors to their deployed performance and the helpfulness of training they had received. Analyses of the survey results are presented, along with recommendations for the design of a comprehensive training program and for next steps.

Cross-Cultural Skills for Deployed Air Force Personnel: Defining Cross-Cultural Performance

Business & Money

Sims, Carra S.

Hardison, Chaitra M.

Ali, Farhana

Villamizar, Andres

Mundell, Ben

Business Culture

RAND Corporation

The Air Force relies on the Air Force Officer Qualifying Test (AFOQT) as part of its officer selection process. Despite concerns about the test, the authors conclude that it is a good selection test that predicts important Air Force outcomes and is not biased against minorities or women. The Air Force would not benefit by replacing the AFOQT with the SAT, although other valid selection tools could be used to complement the AFOQT.

The Air Force Officer Qualifying Test: Validity, Fairness and Bias (Technical Report)

Wong, Eunice C.

Management & Leadership

This report provides an overview of how standardized tests are used as part of a broader selection system for each of the services at different points in an officer’s career, and a discussion of key issues that should be considered when using standardized tests, including the relationship between tests and racial and ethnic group differences, which could affect minority representation within the officer corps.

Use of Standardized Scores in Officer Career Management and Selection (Technical Report)

History

McInnis, Brian

Wong, Anny

Keller, Kirsten M.

Haddad, Abigail

Giglio, Kate

Lim Executive Director Fels, Nelson

Military

The U.S. Army’s Asymmetric Warfare Adaptive Leader Program is designed to enhance adaptive performance in leaders and promote innovative solutions in training. This report describes results of a systematic evaluation of the program, offers recommendations for improvement, and provides recommendations for ongoing evaluation of this program and other courses or events that address adaptive performance and acquisition of other intangible skills.

Innovative Leader Development: Evaluation of the U.S. Army Asymmetric Warfare Adaptive Leader Program

Duggan, Seán

Straus, Susan G.

Hallmark, Bryan W.

Shanley, Michael G.

Saavedra, Anna Rosefsky

Trent, Stoney

This report describes RAND's assistance to the Air Force in designing physical task simulations (PTSs) to measure the occupationally relevant physical requirements for battlefield airmen (BA) specialties and setting standards for BA physical performance on the PTSs. This research will provide the foundation for Air Force performance measures and tests that meet scientific, technical, and best practice standards.

Physical Task Simulations: Performance Measures for the Validation of Physical Tests and Standards for Battlefield Airmen

Robson, Sean

Lytell, Maria C.

Campbell, Jason H.

Atler, Anthony

This report identifies the challenges that Army families face, and the resources they need to address those challenges, directly from the perspectives of more than 8,500 Army spouses who completed a survey. The results show how spouses prioritize needs, the implications of unmet needs for spouses' attitudes toward military service, and how the Army can best address spouses' most-pressing unmet needs through adjustments to Army support services.

Today’s Army Spouse Survey: How Army Families Address Life’s Challenges

Trail, Thomas E.

Tankard, Margaret

Service members must meet U.S. Department of Defense standards to ensure that they are fit to serve. However, the services set standards for specific career fields. To meet critical needs, the Air Force seeks to better align personnel to certain fields (those with higher technical levels but lower physical demands). The authors explore the implications to Air Force culture of tailoring standards to expand or limit the pool of qualified personnel.

Tailoring Medical Standards for Air Force Personnel

Politics & Social Sciences

Costello, Katherine

Matthews, Miriam

Case, Spencer R.

Newberry, Sydne

Krueger, Tracy C.

Politics & Government

Professional military education (PME) is a complex system that accommodates thousands of U.S. Air Force officers yearly. By examining how officers are selected for assignment to in-residence schools and fellowships, reviewing military policies on PME, interviewing Air Force leaders who conduct PME, and surveying recent graduates, the authors answer the question, ?How might the Air Force improve its system of PME??

Air Force Professional Military Education: Considerations for Change

Hanser, Lawrence M.

Li, Jennifer J.

Griffin, Norah

Today's Army Spouse Experiences In Garrison

Parenting & Relationships

Hall, Kimberly Curry

Family Relationships

To ensure its service members have the requisite physical fitness to serve, the Department of the Air Force has established a variety of medical and physical standards. The authors analyze Tier 1 fitness assessment (FA) data to determine whether the FA components meet their intended purpose to minimize health risks and maximize readiness of airmen, and the authors also examine perceptions about fitness policies and the culture of fitness.

Physical Fitness Standards to Support Readiness and Deployability: An Examination of Department of the Air Force Policies and Culture

Walsh, Matthew

Rennane, Stephanie

Snoke, Joshua

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