Officers selected for development Published March 1, 2004 RANDOLPH AIR FORCE BASE, Texas (AFPN) -- More than 170 company grade officers from five career fields were recently selected by the Development Team Special Selection Board to attend developmental education programs.They will be sent to attend the Air Force Institute of Technology; education with industry; space lift education and crossover program; acquisition and intelligence experience exchange tour; comptroller operational logistics tour; or the space and missile acquisition exchange program."Being selected for a developmental program is a great opportunity for any young officer," said Lt. Col. Phil Cooper, deputy commander of the mission support officer assignments division at the Air Force Personnel Center here.This board fills the transition to a more comprehensive approach that better incorporates development teams, he said. The officers selected are among the first under the force-development construct.The list of those selected is available at www.afpc.randolph.af.mil/acquis/Special%20Programs%2004.htm."The force-development train has left the station," said Col. Kathleen Grabowski, chief of assignment policy. "Officers who don't work up a transitional officer-development plan miss the opportunity to be considered for their career field's special-developmental programs."Development and assignment teams use each officer's development plan to see both the officer's and commander's desires about the next best developmental assignment, she said.This group of selectees comes from acquisitions, financial management, space and missile, command and control, intelligence, munitions and missile maintenance, logistics readiness, and the communications and information systems career fields.Development teams match officers to the right developmental opportunity at the right time in their careers based on the needs of the career field, the colonel said. (Courtesy of AFPC News Service)