tig brief - Air Force Inspection Agency
tig brief - Air Force Inspection Agency
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The 2011 SAF/IG Worldwide Training<br />
Conference<br />
State of the IG Community<br />
Lt. Col. Lori J. Stender, SAF/IGI<br />
CMSgt. Johnny L. Collet, SAF/IGI<br />
Carmen F. Perone, SAF/IGQ<br />
Washington<br />
A call for change started in October<br />
2007 as part of the Nuclear Enterprise<br />
<strong>Inspection</strong> system reinvigoration effort, and<br />
continues today following further guidance<br />
from a June 2010 CORONA session.<br />
Inspectors General (IG) from across the<br />
<strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> and Department of Defense<br />
(DoD) assembled at the National<br />
Conference Center in Lansdowne, Virginia, in<br />
May for the 2011 SAF/IG Worldwide Training<br />
Conference. For the second consecutive year,<br />
the conference brought together the combined<br />
expertise of inspection and complaints<br />
resolution personnel. A total of 285 major<br />
command and installation IGs, complaints<br />
resolution case officers, and sister service IGs<br />
participated and made this one of the highestattended<br />
conferences on record.<br />
The <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> Inspector General,<br />
Lieutenant General Marc E. Rogers, kicked<br />
off the event by presenting the 2010 Flynn<br />
and Leaf Awards (pages 22-23). During his<br />
keynote address, General Rogers explained<br />
that while the previous year was a busy one,<br />
2012 would be even more challenging. “The<br />
<strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> continues to make changes to the<br />
size, scope, and mission focus of our force to<br />
become more agile and expeditionary and<br />
the IG is no different. We need to transform<br />
and make the changes necessary to provide<br />
commanders the tools needed to ensure the<br />
8 Summer 2011<br />
economy, efficiency, readiness, and state of<br />
discipline of our force.”<br />
Not since 1948, after the <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong><br />
emerged from its days as part of the Army<br />
<strong>Air</strong> Corps, has the inspection system been<br />
under such scrutiny. A call for change started<br />
in October 2007 as part of the Nuclear<br />
Enterprise <strong>Inspection</strong> system reinvigoration<br />
effort and continues today following further<br />
guidance from a June 2010 CORONA session.<br />
During that CORONA, senior leaders called<br />
for continuation of previous “whitespace”<br />
improvements and focused on changes<br />
needed to ensure the right scope, focus,<br />
and frequency of our compliance inspection<br />
system. Following CORONA, Gen. Rogers<br />
directed the stand-up of an <strong>Inspection</strong> System<br />
Improvement Tiger Team (ISITT), which was<br />
given a charter to conduct a top-to-bottom<br />
review of the entire <strong>Air</strong> <strong>Force</strong> inspection<br />
system.<br />
The ISITT team began working on the<br />
daunting challenge of validating more than<br />
100 separate inspections, eliminating those<br />
no longer valid and proposing integration<br />
or synchronization efforts into the IG
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