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  • State Department visits AFPC to learn customer service expertise

    Seven members of the U.S. State Department' Bureau of Human Resources visited the Air Force Personnel Center here Aug. 25-26 to learn the many technological initiatives the center has undertaken to deliver personnel services to its customers. "We want to continue to enhance our human resources

  • TDY per mile rate increases

    In response to the mid-year rise in gasoline prices, the General Service Administration raised the temporary duty mileage rate from $0.505 per mile to $0.585. The increase applies to all uniformed personnel and civilian employees traveling on official business by privately owned automobile or

  • Personnel Center announces major upgrade of AFPC Secure

    A new, updated version of AFPC Secure will go live on July 19. All Air Force Personnel Center Secure web applications will be down from 6 a.m. Central Daylight time July 19 until 4 p.m. CDT July 20 to support this changeover. After July 20, users should replace any book-marked links for AFPC Secure

  • AFPC on target to complete AEF merger

    Vince Fonner walks into the newly constructed operations center at the Air Force Personnel Center here to check on a couple of new high-resolution monitors. He nods his approval as workers begin to carefully position them in the work areas. Although some keyboard trays need to be installed and a few

  • AF budget leader earns service's top management award

    Maj. Gen. Larry O. Spencer, deputy assistant secretary for budget, received the 2007 Eugene M. Zuckert Management Award during a ceremony recently at the Pentagon. "It is truly an honor to receive such a high-level award, but there are many people who deserve credit for it," said General Spencer.

  • Think of the MTF if injured on the job

    When an Air Force civilian employee is injured on the job, time can be vitally important in getting that injury treated. One of the best solutions for both the employee and the Air Force is to use the base military treatment facility emergency room, - yet few employees take advantage of this

  • How, when to begin filling a civilian vacancy

    One way to cut down on the time needed to fill a civilian vacancy is to begin earlier, Air Force Personnel Center officials said recently. "Supervisors can submit a request for personnel action at any time to their local Civilian Personnel Office," said Cathy Smoak, Human Resource Specialist, Air

  • AF nominates 114 officers for astronaut training

    The Air Force Astronaut Nomination Board has forwarded 114 nominees to the National Aeronautics and Space Administration for consideration in the pilot and mission specialist categories. The board convened here May 13-15 and the Medical Screening Panel convened May 20-22, considering 213

  • Citizenship path for Airmen now a Total Force reality

    Senior Airman Karla Bustamante has career aspirations. As an information management journeyman with the 375th Mission Support Group at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., she wants to make staff sergeant and someday finish her bachelor's degree in computer science. Airman Bustamante, a Nicaraguan native,

  • AFPC providing service, virtually

    The Air Force Personnel Center here opened the virtual communication lines when monthly Internet based information sessions launched late last year for military and civilian personnelists around the Air Force. The intent of the monthly Internet conferences, known as webcasts, is to provide