10, 2022, at Wright Dialog with Industry and another will be Oct. The design team developed ways to improve the numbers with various teams and panel discussions with the technically focused S&E. “So, I think that’s the first thing is to let them know that we hear the demand.” “We realize that we have a deficit, and we want to grow our cadre of officers and civilians - our workforce,” he said. In considering ways to grow the number of STEM degrees, Gallton said there needs to be an emphasis on its importance. Gallton said the DAF has completed a few studies to look at the requirements for STEM degrees to accomplish a few things: have a communication with company-grade and field-grade officers, and to grow the number of scientifically smart military members. In either case, it is an example of not having enough STEM advanced degree holders at a time when the battlefield is strongly one of technology innovation.”
Some of this is when they are unfilled, and some is when they are filled with waivered members, who do not have the STEM advanced degree. If you look at fill-rates for positions coded for STEM masters or doctorates, they only have STEM AAD members about 50% of the time. “Our general officers have 15% STEM master’s degrees. “If we look at leaders of technical fortune 500 companies, about 30% have STEM master’s degrees,” Serna said. “In the past, there was a big push for Airmen with technical degrees, and hasn’t gone by the wayside, but maybe that emphasis has decreased a little bit.”Īccording to the report, the Air Force has half the uniformed scientists and engineers, or S&Es, it needs. “When you start looking at some of our near peers like China, China has been pushing a lot of advanced academic degrees,” Gallton said. Daniel Gallton, chief, science and engineering division, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, or AFOSR, said the goal is to increase the number of scientifically talented Airmen and Guardians. “Along with the pilot programs, Edison Grants and Project Arc, that are enabling more small-scale experimentation.”Īfter reviewing the report and identifying the need for technologically proficient military members, Col. “I think the data is particularly valuable … pointing to the low number of general officers with STEM advanced degrees and a 50% fill rate of STEM advanced academic degree, or AAD, coded billets,” Serna added. Mario Serna Jr., deputy director of innovation and technology integration, Department of the Air Force Rapid Capabilities Office-Field Support Unit said, building the technical expertise to succeed strategically is accomplished by giving officers opportunities to try new things, testing them in a failure-tolerant environment and seeing the results in a short time span. The Project Arc program sends scientists and engineers across 13 bases in nine states, where they use their skills to promote innovation and enhance mission efficiency.Ĭol. These small-scale tests and experiments are where our technologists build their instincts.”Įdison Grants provide Air Force and Space Force uniformed personnel a year of funding for novel research experiments. “Both Edison Grants and Project Arc ensure our officers build capabilities with small minimum viable products, or MVPs, which forces a ‘rendezvous with reality’ at least once a year.
Victoria Coleman, chief scientist of the U.S. “The value in the programs launched under this line of effort from was their emphasis on ‘rendezvous with reality,’” said Dr. The data, which showed the Air Force has reached its lowest numbers for science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, advanced degrees in its general officers in more than 30 years. A recent report on a Line of Effort, or LoE, 3.6 of this implementation was recently released: Build a Pipeline of Technology Proficient Military Airmen and Guardians. WRIGHT-PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, Ohio (AFRL) – Between 2019-2021, the Air Force Research Laboratory, or AFRL, led the implementation of the Air Forces Science and Technology Strategy, or S&T, 2030. Castrejon, Air Force Research Laboratory Public Affairs Published Aug 15, 2022
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