An ad hoc committee will conduct a consensus study to assess and strengthen the various U.S. Air Force (USAF) initiatives and programs working to improve person-job match and human capital management in coordinated support of optimal mission capability. The committee, informed by established professional principles and the best scientific evidence in appropriate domains, will consider the USAF human capital management system (including historical, cultural, and organizational contexts) to develop findings and recommendations (e.g., research, operational, technical, policy, or acquisition approaches) that would improve USAF personnel selection and classification and other critical system components across career trajectories. This activity will cover the broad spectrum of human capital management with a special emphasis on high visibility occupational specialties.

Specifically, the committee will:

1. Review current and emerging USAF personnel community research programs, policies, and processes and consider any relevant lessons to be learned from similar institutions (inside and outside the defense sector);

2. Consider state-of-the-art approaches in selection and testing contexts (e.g., data, methods, tools, analyses, and decisions) that would be relevant to USAF existing and future needs in recruiting, accession, and attrition processes in order to recommend appropriate operational application areas and vetting methods to ensure approaches are based on a strong scientific foundation and proven through rigorous validation;

3. Recommend a roadmap of goals and timeline for executing enhancements to include:

   1. Operational improvements, new strategies, and outcome metrics that have a sound basis in science and practice;

   2. Potential procedures, processes, and structures to optimize USAF collaboration, communication, integration, and operational implementation timeliness across the human capital management mission; and

   3. Identification of resources necessary to implement the recommendations.