Operational Risk Managment

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Operational Risk Managment
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Principles

• 1. Accept no unnecessary risk
• 2. Make risk decisions at the
• appropriate level
• 3. Accept risk when benefits outweigh
• the costs
• 4. Integrate ORM into Air Force Doctrine
• and Planning at all levels

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Responsibilities

• Starts with the commander
• Supported by the staff
• Implemented by the supervisors
• Rests with all individuals

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Civilian Personnel
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Why Employ Civilians

• To acquire abilities not available
• Highly technical positions
• More efficient to hire already qualified
  civilians
• Assure continuity of administration and operation
• Civilians are not subject to PCS rules
• Provide corporate knowledge

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Why Employ Civilians Contd

• Obtain nucleus of workers that can be expanded in
  an emergency
• Free military personnel for military duties
• Military members can concentrate on combat
  readiness
• Deployment

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Complaint Channels Available to Civilians

• Informal
• Alleged perpetrator
• Employee or perpetrators supervisor
• Formal
• EEO
• EEOC
• Federal District Court

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Bullet Statements with Impact
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Impact on Careers

• Quarterly/Annual Awards
• Performance Reports
• EPRs, OPRs, Civilian Rating of Records
• Regular Promotions
• Early Promotions--STEP/BTZ
• Meaningful Decorations

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Elements of an A-I Bullet

• Accomplishment (1st element)
• What did the person do?
  (performance, leadership, mgmt)
• How well did the person do it?
• What was the result? (resources,
  effectiveness, efficiency)
• Ex
• - Restored 40 damaged/missing elements on six
  antennas in three days using decommissioned
  parts saved 3479

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2 Elements of an A-I Bullet

• Impact (2nd element)
• What level was impacted? (unit, wing, base,
  AF)
• Why was accomplishment important?
• Ex
• -- Sharply improved voice clarity for 30 Atlantic
  Gateway Antenna System operators covering US
  and Europe

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Performance Feedback
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Definition of Performance Feedback

• Definition Formal, private, written
  communication between the ratee and rater about
  the raters expectations and standards and the
  ratees responsibilities and performance. (AFI
  36-2406)

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Requirements for Performance Feedback

• Who Receives Feedback and When?
• Initial Feedback
• Within 60 days of being assigned a rater
• Sets ground rules
• Colonel and below
• All Enlisted

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Advocacy Briefing and Prep
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Building the Advocacy Briefing

• Select a Topic - 2 sides or multiple
• solutions
• Key to a Successful Topic
• Commitment to issue
• Appropriate supporting material
• Organization of supporting material

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Building the Advocacy Briefing

• Analyze your audience
• Conduct research
• Library sources, internet
• Testimonies, statistics, and examples
• If evidence does not support your position or
  viewpoint, be willing to modify the topic

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Building the Advocacy Briefing

• 4. Write position statement
• Write a sentence, your position statement, that
• you can provide a solution for or
• you can confidently side with
• acts as focal point for arguments and supporting
  materials
• reveals a clear point of view on a controversial
  topic
• Examples
• 1. The military must play a bigger role in US
  drug interdiction efforts.
• 
  or
• 2. The military must not play a bigger role in
  US drug interdiction efforts.

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Building the Advocacy Briefing

• 5. Argument strategy (cont)
• Use logical arguments (see TQ, pp42-53)
• Use facts, evidence, and rationale reasoning
• Use organizational patterns to help audience
  understand and believe
• Goal to influence your audience to consider and
  ultimately accept your point of view

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Organization PatternsPro-Con Plus 1

• State both sides of issue evenly
• Follow with extra support for your view
• not previously discussed, or refute the cons
• This final Pro or Con equals the Plus 1

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Information Assurance and Computer Security
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Categories of Threats

• Technical
• - hardware, software, or
• design deficiency
• often vulnerable right out
• of the box
• Administrative
• - inadequate or incorrect
• implementation of existing security features
• - not a design flaw but rather poor policy,
  process or procedure

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What are my Responsibilities?

• Dont post your email address in chat rooms,
  forums, or message boards.
• Report violations or suspicious activity.
• -pornography
• -loading personal software
• -revealing sensitive
• information
• -failure to take security measures

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Officer Evaluation System
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Performance Reporting

• Officer Performance Report (OPR)
• Completed Annually
• Change of Reporting Official (CRO)
• Minimum 120 days of supervision
• AF Form 707

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Performance Reporting

• Inappropriate Comments
• Charges/investigations not completed or
  acquittals
• Recommendations for decorations
• Race, gender, age, religion, etc. of ratee
• Drug/Alcohol abuse rehabilitation programs
• Previous ratings or reports
• Developmental education (completion or
  enrollment)
• Advanced academic education
• Promotion recommendations

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Bullet Statement Practicum
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Bullet Statement Practicum

• Parts of a Bullet Statement
• 1. What did the person do?
• 2. How well did the person do it?
• 3. What was the result?
• 4. What mission level was impacted? Flight,
  Squadron, Wing, AF, etc. (Sometimes understood
  and not written)
• 5. Why was accomplishment important? (Sometimes
• answered in question 3-result)

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The Enlisted Force
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Enlisted Promotion SystemWeighted Airman
Promotion System (WAPS) E-5 through E-7

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  Max Pts
  
• Enlisted Performance Reports Points (EPRs) ..
  135
• Specialty Knowledge Test (SKT) ... 100
• Professional Development Guide (PDG) Score
  ......100
• Time in Service (TIS) .. 40
• Time in Grade (TIG) .....60
• Decorations 25
• Total Points Possible 460

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Enlisted Performance Reports (EPR)

• Objective Provides an official record of
  performance as viewed by officials in the rating
  chain who are closest to the actual work
  environment. (AFI 36-2406)

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REQUIREMENTS FOR EPRs

• Who?
• All enlisted members SrA thru CMSgt.
• A1C and below if they have 20 months or more of
  Total Active Federal Military Service (TAFMS).
• When?
• Annually if no changes during reporting cycle
  (change in reporting official, PCS, PCA, etc.)
• After a change during the reporting cycle when
  there has been 120 days or more of supervision.

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Russia
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Russian People
Differences Authority Individual /
Group
Power flows up from the people to elected
officials
Highly centralized, authoritarian decision makers
impose change from above
Emphasis on individualism
Emphasis on communal good or sobornost
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Politics and Government

• Democrats and Reformers
• Many states wanted to establish democratic
  governments
• Strong pro-democracy movements developed in
  Russia, the Baltic States, Ukraine, etc.
• Unwillingness to compromise, however, often
  undermined efforts and led to numerous
  pro-democracy parties

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Europe
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Culture and Religion

• Generous social welfare system
• Governments should look after society and provide
  extensive network of social welfare public
  services
• Most countries significantly assist in reducing
  individual health care costs
• Unfortunately, has led to extremely high taxes

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Economic Social Issues

• Communist legacy
• Communist-era economic policies were difficult to
  dismantle
• Restricted basic freedoms
• Significantly poor economies
• Rampant corruption

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The Middle East
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Scarcity of Water

• Ten countries in the region are consuming more
  than 100 of their renewable water supplies
• Bahrain, Israel, Jordan, Kuwait, Libya, Oman,
  Qatar, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Republic,
  Yemen, and Palestine (the West Bank and Gaza)
• The degradation of water quality is also a major
  issue

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What Israelis and Palestinians want

• Land- Both sides lay claim to land that has
  changed hands many times since biblical times
• Property- Both sides have owned property that is
  now under the others control
• Water- As we pointed out earlier, water is
  always a scarcity in the region. Control of the
  water is ultimately control over life
• Both sides also want a Nation to call their own,
  independent of the other, yet neither is willing
  to give up enough to make this happen

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Oath of Office
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THE OATH

• I, (state your full name), having been appointed
  a second lieutenant, in the United States Air
  Force, do solemnly swear that I will support and
  defend the constitution of the United States,
  against all enemies, foreign and domestic, that I
  will bear true faith and allegiance to the same,
  that I take this obligation freely, without any
  mental reservation or purpose of evasion, and
  that I will well and faithfully discharge the
  duties of the office upon which I am about to
  enter, so help me God.

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WHAT DOES THE COMMISSION MEAN?

• Responsibility
• Fun

• Service
• Sacrifice

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SACRIFICE

• Life
• Freedom
• Family