Eleven C-130H Hercules’ and 13 C-130J Super Hercules’ prepare to take off Dec. 6, 2014, from Dyess Air Force Base, Texas, in support of the Air Force Weapons School's Joint Forcible Entry Exercise 14B. The C-130H models are from various Air National Guard units and the C-130J models are from the 317th Airlift Group at Dyess Air Force Base, Texas. In addition to the C-130s, the JFEX included approximately 20 C-17 Globemaster IIIs and various other aircraft. (Air Force photo by Airman 1st Class Alexander Guerrero)
By: FEDweek StaffThe Air Force is tweaking its “Accelerate Change or Lose” Action Orders it issued in December 2020, to better reflect what they have accomplished since their implementation and set forth a clearer path for the future.
“It is a refinement of tasks for the air staff that support the Department of the Air Force’s direction and our warfighters,” Gen. Charles Q. Brown Jr., the chief of staff, said. “The Action Orders should be executed at the headquarters level, and their effects felt at the squadron level.”
Brown intends the modifications to speed up change while giving both service leaders and the airmen who work for them the flexibility to make necessary decisions.
Key components of Accelerate Change or Lose now entail:
• Assurance that the attributes airmen need to prevail in a high-end fight remain unchanged, while building processes by which they can adapt their talents when emerging missions require such.
• Streamlining the decision-making process, to reduce redundancies and bureaucratic red tape.
“Bureaucracy exists in all large organizations and changing culture and practices that prevent timely and effective decisions is difficult,” Brown said, “but it starts with the Air Staff.”
• Stressing the need for airmen to understand the roles they play in strategic competitions among the U.S., China and Russia. This would include continuous evolution of the Joint Warfighting Concept and other strategic documents.
• Accelerating the transition of today’s force to one that takes a fiscally sound approach to mission, force and security – again, with a focus on threats posed by China and Russia.
“While Accelerate Change or Lose is enduring, like any operation order, the Action Orders are meant to be iterative – continually assessed, adapted and improved,” Brown said. “A little more than a year since releasing to the field, it was time to assess what we’ve done against what we set out to do, analyze the evolving conditions, and modify directives, guidance and tasks accordingly.”
Air Force: Accelerate Change or Lose PDF
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