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Air Force announces NCO Career Status Program for Airmen with 12 years of service

Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs — Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:47:00 GMT

The change will eliminate the need for Airmen who have 12 or more years of service to continue to reenlist by aligning their separation dates with their high year of tenure dates.

Air Force releases technical sergeant/19E6 promotion cycle statistics

Kat Bailey — Thu, 18 Jul 2019 15:19:00 GMT

Of the 9,467 selected, 18% had promote now recommendations, 26% had must promote recommendations and 56 % had promote recommendations.

AF releases 2016 promotion statistics by AFSC

Kat Bailey — Mon, 03 Oct 2016 13:00:00 GMT

Air Force officials have released the 2016 staff sergeant, technical sergeant and master sergeant promotion statistics, broken down by Air Force specialty code and promotion recommendation.

CHIEFchat: EPRs heading in the right direction

Staff Sgt. Christopher Gross — Tue, 31 May 2016 16:00:00 GMT

The Air Force’s top enlisted leader addressed the new enlisted performance report and gave insight to feedback he’s received during his latest edition of CHIEFchat at the Defense Media Activity on Fort George G. Meade. Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James A. Cody encouraged Airmen to forget about the old EPR system and to embrace the new.

AF announces year two adjustments to enlisted evaluations, promotions

Tech. Sgt. Bryan Franks — Tue, 02 Feb 2016 19:00:57 GMT

Incorporating various observations and assessments from the first year under the new enlisted evaluation and promotion systems, the Air Force is making several adjustments for year two to ease execution and strengthen processes.

AF releases Form 910, implements forced distribution

Debbie Gildea — Mon, 30 Nov 2015 15:57:34 GMT

The revised Air Force Form 910, Enlisted Performance Report (airman basic through technical sergeant); and interim change 3 to Air Force Instruction 36-2406, “Officer and Enlisted Evaluation Systems,” have been published on the Air Force e-Publishing website.

AF implements restricted endorsement, stratification for senior master sergeant EPRs

Debbie Gildea — Tue, 04 Aug 2015 15:54:42 GMT

Restricted senior rater endorsement and stratification for senior NCO enlisted performance reports will be implemented in conjunction with the July 31 senior master sergeant EPR closeout date.

Senior master sergeant evaluations to be on new EPR form

Debbie Gildea — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 21:33:00 GMT

Senior master sergeant enlisted performance reports, which closed out July 31, will be accomplished on the newly published Air Force Form 911, the EPR for master sergeant through senior master sergeant, which was made available July 31 on the e-Publishing website.

Enlisted evaluation, promotion systems to use new EPR forms, forced distribution, stratification restrictions

Secretary of the Air Force Public Affairs — Fri, 19 Jun 2015 12:20:00 GMT

With static closeout dates for each rank in place, the Air Force announced it will update the enlisted performance report forms and utilize new forced distribution and senior rater stratification restrictions to round out the incremental changes to enlisted evaluation and promotion systems with performance as the driving factor in promotions.

Total force current, selected master sergeant evaluations close out Sept. 30

Debbie Gildea — Mon, 15 Jun 2015 14:35:09 GMT

Regular Air Force, Air National Guard and Air Force Reserve master sergeant and master sergeant-select enlisted performance reports will now close out annually on Sept. 30. In addition, as of June 3, master sergeants and selects will no longer receive change-of-reporting-official EPRs.

Chief EPRs to be accomplished on new Form 912

Debbie Gildea — Mon, 08 Jun 2015 16:47:50 GMT

Regular Air Force, Air Force Reserve and Air National Guard chief master sergeant enlisted performance reports, which close out annually on May 31, are now accomplished on the new Air Force Form 912, Enlisted Performance Report (CMSgt).

Enlisted members selected for promotion to get EPR on "select" grade closeout date

Debbie Gildea — Mon, 20 Apr 2015 15:31:06 GMT

In line with a recent update to the Air Force policy on enlisted performance report static closeout dates (SCOD), effective immediately, all future EPRs for promotion-selectees will close out on the date of the promotion-select grade.

How to: The Airman Comprehensive Assessment

Staff Sgt. Jette Carr — Wed, 11 Mar 2015 18:29:53 GMT

It has been nearly half a year since the release and implementation of the new Airman Comprehensive Assessment, a comprehensive worksheet that aids in creating feedback between a supervisor/rater and their ratee. AF.mil reviews the form that guides supervisors through the conversation with their Airman.

Master sergeant evaluation board, SNCO promotion changes coming in spring 2015

Defense Media Activity — Wed, 03 Dec 2014 17:33:00 GMT

The Air Force continues the phased implementation of its Enlisted Evaluation System and Weighted Airman Promotion System (WAPS) changes with the convening of a master sergeant evaluation board scheduled for May 2015.

292 Airmen on November enlisted supplemental promotion list

DoD News — Fri, 14 Nov 2014 16:51:00 GMT

The Air Force selected 292 enlisted Airmen for promotion via the supplemental promotion process, Air Force Personnel Center officials announced.

Enlisted promotion system changes continue with weighted factor adjustments

DoD News — Fri, 31 Oct 2014 15:09:00 GMT

This January, changes to the Weighted Airman Promotion System (WAPS) will continue with adjustments to the scoring model for promotions to technical sergeant and below, all designed to help ensure job performance is the most important factor when evaluating and identifying Airmen for promotion.

AF adjusts enlisted retention results

DoD News — Fri, 24 Oct 2014 17:53:00 GMT

Air Force officials announced an adjustment to the Junior Enlisted Retention Board which convened in June at the Air Force Personnel Center. Fifty Airmen who were not selected for retention during the FY14 force management ERB were offered the opportunity to remain on active duty following identification of an issue in the eligibility of Airmen meeting the board.

CMSAF talks vision, priorities at Seymour Johnson

Airman 1st Class Brittain Crolley — Tue, 14 Oct 2014 16:00:00 GMT

Chief Master Sgt. of the Air Force James Cody and his wife, retired Chief Master Sgt. Athena Cody, wrapped up a two-day visit here, Oct. 10.

CMSAF visits Academy Airmen, addresses EPR, fiscal concerns

Ray Bowden — Tue, 07 Oct 2014 14:46:00 GMT

Today's Airmen are more than capable of taking on the unpredictable fiscal and operational challenges of modern times, the Air Force's top enlisted leader told a crowd of 200 Academy Airmen who attended his all call here Oct. 3.

SSgt EPR static closeout dates implemented

DoD News — Fri, 26 Sep 2014 12:07:00 GMT

Implementation of a series of changes to the enlisted evaluation and promotion systems announced in July by Air Force senior leaders continues with establishment of the staff sergeant enlisted performance report static closeout date. Effective Oct. 4, all staff sergeant EPRs will close out Jan. 31. Also effective Oct. 4, change of reporting official EPRs will no longer be accomplished for staff sergeants.