The Space Force also completed its own service-specific Special Duty Assignment Pay board, utilizing the same criteria as the Air Force. Just weeks before the cuts were scheduled to take place, Air Force Secretary Frank Kendall made a speech in September 2022 at the Air & Space Forces Association's annual conference, where he announced the cuts would be reversed. Last year, hundreds of airmen were scheduled to see cuts to their fiscal 2023 Special Duty Assignment Pay, according to budget documents. The press release does disclose that 70 jobs were approved to receive Special Duty Assignment Pay and that, of those, "four were initial requests that were certified for the first time, 48 were recertified at their current rate, 11 increased rate and seven decreased rate to maintain parity with specialties of similar duties, responsibilities and training."īut there's no mention of what specific jobs are seeing increases, decreases or losing the bonus altogether. The June 23 press release from the Department of the Air Force said the new board "focused on identifying personnel in extremely demanding positions with unusually challenging responsibilities based on a defendable scoring methodology, and decisions were made agnostic of budgetary funding." The Department of the Air Force did not respond when asked why the list was not being released publicly, telling only that it "released the FY24 Special Duty Assignment Pay through command channels, reaching those who are directly impacted, and can be found on myFSS." taxpayers have a right to know how much they are paying members of the military." "The Air Force public affairs office is once again showing a reflexive secrecy, withholding unclassified information from the public without justification," Paladino said.
European Command’s Planning and Execution of Ground Transportation of Equipment to Support Ukraine from Port to Transfer Locations.” The DoD OIG plans to publish the announced evaluation in the coming months.The Department of the Air Force's choice not to publicly disclose what jobs are being cut from Special Duty Assignment Pay is concerning to government watchdogs like Jason Paladino, a researcher at the nonprofit Project on Government Oversight. This advisory was part of a larger oversight project, the “Evaluation of the U.S.
IG Storch stated, “This management advisory was issued as part of the DoD OIG’s effort to be agile in reporting on its oversight of the ongoing security assistance to Ukraine and to highlight an issue that the DoD OIG believes warrants prompt attention from the DoD.” The DoD OIG recommends that United States European Command (USEUCOM) complete a review of logistics support business rules to identify and implement changes necessary to ensure the efficient transfer of ammunition to Ukraine.Īdditionally, the DoD OIG recommends that USEUCOM conduct a review to examine and consider implementing other means of rapidly delivering ammunition to Ukraine. This ammunition is part of the Department of Defense’s support to the Government of Ukraine, under Presidential Drawdown Authority. Storch announced today that the Department of Defense Office of Inspector General (DoD OIG) released the “Management Advisory: DoD’s Transportation of Ammunition in Support of Ukraine.” This management advisory addresses the timely transportation of ammunition from European ports to its final destination.
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