The United States faces a new era of strategic competition that demands an unwavering focus on America’s core national security interests. Our relationship with the People’s Republic of China has evolved into one between near peers, requiring the United States to compete from a position of strength to protect American interests. By sustaining military, economic, and technological advantages, the United States can deter aggression, prevent domination by any competitor, and maintain the stability that supports global security. At the same time, defending the homeland—its people, borders, infrastructure, and way of life—is the foremost national priority, including protection from military attack, hostile foreign influence, and predatory trade practices.

To deter, counter, and stay ahead of these threats, the Department of the Air Force must continue to attract, develop, retain, and field the best and brightest workforce our nation has to offer, in the most effective ways possible. The DAF workforce must be able to out-think, out-decide, out-produce, and out-perform our competitors; interact with and wield technologies more effectively than our enemies; and be better organized, better led, and better run than any military in the world. To achieve and sustain this reality, the DAF needs strategies and policies that are executable, lasting, and reflective of the latest evidence in all relevant disciplines.

This is why OLEA exists—To help provide decision advantage in the human capital space. To reduce the amount of judgment required in strategic human capital decisions, by providing more evidence through research and analysis.

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