Officers selected for intermediate developmental education Published April 10, 2006 RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- The recent major central selection board at the Air Force Personnel Center announced intermediate developmental education "selects." Officers identified as selects join a resource pool of officers who will be considered for future attendance at in-residence IDE. A complete list of selects is available at http://ask.afpc.randolph.af.mil/Docs/DPA/DevelopEd/DE_Info_Web_Screen.PPT. IDE offers Air Force officers a program of education designed to broaden perspectives, increase knowledge and prepare them to assume higher levels of command and staff duties and responsibilities. It also provides all officers a universal foundation based upon air and space competencies in the following areas: character, leadership, operations, organization, strategy, technology and perspective. The major promotion board chose the best-qualified officers to be selects. Those promotees with the highest scores in the top 20 percent from the promotion order of merit list become selects for school attendance. The number of selects fluctuates slightly each year depending upon year group sizes. The actual IDE selection and designation process is three-fold: initial selection by the promotion board, nomination by the senior rater and a review and validation by the individual's developmental team during an officer's IDE eligibility window, and designation for school attendance by the U.S. Air Force Developmental Education Designation Board. Officers promoted this board are eligible to meet the 2007, 2008 and 2009 Developmental Education Designation Boards. Each spring, AFPC releases a message containing suspense actions and timelines for officers wishing to be considered for the following academic year.