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16RX Planning and Programming Officer

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Overview

Planning and Programming Officers develop and write Air Force, joint service, and combined plans. They design plans that incorporate Air Force doctrine and warfighting capabilities.

Minimum clearance: Top Secret

Core Skills

  • Cross-functional plan and program development
  • Air Force and joint policy development

Civilian Career Paths

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Management Analysts

Developing cross-functional military plans, programs, and policies provides transferable experience for documenting organizational changes and preparing implementation recommendations.

How to prepare: Build a non-sensitive work sample that translates a cross-functional planning problem into a civilian organizational assessment with proposed changes and implementation recommendations.

What the civilian work involves
  • Gather and organize information on problems or procedures.
  • Confer with personnel concerned to ensure successful functioning of newly implemented systems or procedures.
  • Document findings of study and prepare recommendations for implementation of new systems, procedures, or organizational changes.
Civilian tools and software (examples)
  • Microsoft Office software
  • Microsoft PowerPoint

Notes & Sources

Evidence for this guidance (2 documents)
  1. DAFOCD, 30 Apr 26: PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING (16RX)

    [1] Specialty Summary section "PLANNING AND PROGRAMMING"; normalized cached text lines 3627-3648; family-level section (16R4, 16R3, 16R1)

    Supports: Cross-functional plan and program development, Air Force and joint policy development, Management Analysts (O*NET 13-1111.00)

  2. O*NET: Management Analysts

    [2] O*NET 30.3 occupational data

    Supports: Management Analysts (O*NET 13-1111.00)

Defense contractor jobs for 16RX

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