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  • Information assurance scholarship available to officers, civilians

    Officers have until Jan. 31 to apply for the Information Assurance Scholarship Program, a special developmental education program available for the 2011 academic year. Civilians have until Jan. 14 to apply for the scholarship.The program pays the full cost of tuition, select fees and required books

  • Hiring authority key in meeting goals, faster hiring

    As the Air Force continues to seek highly qualified talent to compliment its growing civilian work force, officials are promoting active use of the Schedule A hiring authority to fill these positions with qualified personnel.Schedule A hiring is a special streamlined hiring authority available to

  • Upgrade allows civilians to update awards online

    Civilian employees can now update their non-monetary awards through the self-service module in the Defense Civilian Personnel Data System using the "Awards and Bonuses" tab in "My Biz." The ability to update non-monetary awards, such as length of service recognition, exemplary civilian service award

  • NSPS positions assigned GS pay grades

    With only weeks remaining to classify Air Force civilian jobs into the legacy General Schedule personnel system, Air Force classifiers are ensuring NSPS positions have a current GS title, series and grade before the NSPS conversion out date.The Fiscal Year 2010 National Defense Authorization Act

  • Assignment satisfaction survey yields 61 action items

    A base wide push for people to participate in a quality of life survey that began in December 2009 has yielded 61 actions for base organizations to investigate.The assignment satisfaction survey received more than 1,100 responses and 300 comments. In the coming months, many of those items will be

  • Air Force Ball to honor present, past, future

    Organizers are preparing for this year's joint RAFs Mildenhall and Lakenheath Air Force Ball which is scheduled for Sept. 11 in Hangar 814 on RAF Mildenhall.The MenuThe ball will be catered for the first time by an off base catering service. The feast will include kilin smoked salmon, with pickled

  • It's time to give human trafficking the red light

    Annual awareness training has become the norm for all base workers; however, the base training manager here wants Airmen to pay close attention to one subject that is sometimes overlooked in the masses of material. Kirk Stoye, as the Combating Trafficking in Persons point of contact at RAF