USAF Wants Promotions to Be More Equitable, Brown Says
Sept. 21, 2020 | By Jennifer-Leigh Oprihory
USAF is exploring ways to make promotions less biased based on Air Force Specialty Codes and other demographics, Air Force Chief of Staff Charles Q. Brown Jr. told reporters on Sept. 16.
The service got a relatively early start in tackling unconscious bias within the promotions process in the 1990s when it removed photos from promotions packages—a move Defense Secretary Mark T. Esper ordered the rest of the services to follow suit on by Sept. 1 of this year—Brown told reporters during a media roundtable at the Air Force Association’s virtual Air, Space & Cyber Conference.
He also cited USAF’s recent adoption of developmental categories for officer promotions as a further step in the direction of more equitable promotions. This shift allowed many officers to compete against their peers whose expertise, experience, and professional trajectories more closely align with their own, instead of forcing them to compete with combat-experienced pilots and other Airmen from Line of the Air Force career fields.
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