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Recruitment And Retention Of Contracting Officers Key, As DAF Examines Incentives

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Recruitment And Retention Of Contracting Officers Key, As DAF Examines Incentives
U.S. Air Force Gen. Dale White, the service's director of critical major weapon systems, addresses the McAleese and Associates defense programs conference last week.

As Golden Dome and other modernization programs face a flood of new funding in a possibly $500 billion requested increase for the Defense Department in fiscal 2027, the Department of the Air Force (DAF) is examining signing bonuses and other methods to attract and retain the department's civilians, including contracting officers and specialists in the GS-1102 category. The DAF's civilian incentives' move comes as DoD and the military services grapple with personnel losses since last year under the Trump administration's…

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