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  • DOD Disability Award nominees sought

    The Air Force is seeking nominations for the 2013 Outstanding Department of Defense Employee with a Disability Award, Air Force Personnel Center officials announced today.The award honors individual civilian employees and military members with disabilities who supported the DOD mission, overseas

  • 2013 SAIGE Award nominees sought

    The Air Force is seeking nominations for 2013 Society of American Indian Government Employees Meritorious Service Award, Air Force Personnel Center officials announced today.The SAIGE Meritorious Service Award honors male and female military members and Department of Defense civilian employees who

  • FAPAC award nominees sought

    Nominations are due Feb. 22 for the Federal Asian Pacific American Council Military Meritorious Service Award, Air Force Personnel Center officials said.The award honors military members who have fostered an innovative and harmonic environment between the military and Asian Pacific American civilian

  • NAACP Roy Wilkins Renown Service Award nominees sought

    The Air Force is seeking nominations for 2013 National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Roy Wilkins Renown Service Award, Air Force Personnel Center officials announced today.The award honors military members and Department of Defense civilian employees who have supported the DOD

  • DOD selects AF civilians for service award

    The Department of Defense officials recently named two Air Force civilians as 57th Annual Department of Defense Distinguished Civilian Service Award winners, Air Force Personnel Center officials announced.The highest honor given by the Secretary of Defense to career civilian personnel was presented

  • Air Force implements civilian hiring freeze

    Air Force senior leaders directed a force-wide hiring freeze among other workforce actions in a memorandum sent to senior commanders Jan. 16.The actions are part of the Air Force's efforts to pursue reversible or recoverable steps to avoid impacts to core readiness caused by the looming possibility

  • Interactive benefits phone system deactivates

    The interactive voice response system that enabled civilian employees to accomplish some benefits-related actions will be deactivated Jan. 31, Air Force Personnel Center officials said."Low usage and high maintenance costs resulted in the decision to deactivate the system, but the benefits team is

  • Air Force to provide dedicated legal counsel to sexual assault victims

    A new Air Force pilot program designed to provide legal assistance to victims of sexual assault will begin later this month.The Special Victims' Counsel Program will give sexual assault victims legal assistance and help them navigate the criminal justice system with lawyers trained to handle their

  • Special hiring program helps wounded warriors, Air Force

    The Air Force's Wounded Warrior Civil Service Employment Program assists combat-related ill and injured Airmen secure Air Force civil service jobs. Since the program's inception in 2006, nearly 120 wounded warriors have joined the Air Force's civilian work force. This employment program affects