The Air Force recently began making sweeping changes to the enlisted airmen's evaluation and promotion systems. In late July, the service announced that it would undergo a major overhaul of the enlisted evaluation system and the weighted airman promotion system, or WAPS. This is something that it hasn't done in nearly 45 years, said CMSgt. Brandy Petzel, chief of enlisted force policy in the Air Staff's A1 manpower, personnel, and services office. Airmen should expect to see more emphasis on performance than on any other factors, she explained at the Air Force Association's Air & Space Conference in September. Changes will come incrementally over the next two years, but the Air Force has began its first phase of implementation in August for Active Duty junior enlisted airmen. Tech sergeants, the first ones affected, were notified that their static close-out date, which will now be tied to their promotion eligibility cut-off date, will be Nov. 30.
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