BY ORDER OF THE
SECRETARY OF THE AIR FORCE
AIR FORCE POLICY DIRECTIVE 36-9
31 OCTOBER 2011
Certify Current, 14 March 2016
Personnel
SENIOR EXECUTIVE RESOURCE
MANAGEMENT
COMPLIANCE WITH THIS PUBLICATION IS MANDATORY
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There are no releasability restrictions on this publication.
OPR: AF/DPS
Supersedes: AFPD36-9, 26 July 1994
Certified by: AF/A1
(Lt Gen Darrell D. Jones)
Pages: 3
This Directive implements DoD Directive 1403.1, The Senior Executive Service and Equivalent
Level Positions and Personnel; DoD Directive 1400.35, Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel
System; DoD Instruction 1403.2, Reduction in Force in the Senior Executive Service (SES); DoD
1403.03 The Career Lifecycle Management of the Senior Executive Service Leaders Within the
Department of Defense. Senior civilian executives are integral members of the Air Force’s
leadership and management team. This Directive sets the policies which govern how to recruit,
develop, and sustain a high quality cadre of senior civilian executives. These policies apply to
all Air Force organizations and personnel except the Air National Guard. Refer recommended
changes and questions about this publication to the Office of Primary Responsibility (OPR)
using the AF Form 847, Recommendation for Change of Publication; route the AF Form 847
from the field through appropriate functional chain of command. Ensure that all records created
as a result of processes prescribed in this publication are maintained in accordance with AFMAN
33-363, Management of Records, and disposed of in accordance with the Air Force Records
Disposition Schedule (RDS) located at https://www.my.af.mil/afrims/afrims/afrims/rims.cfm.
SUMMARY OF CHANGES
This revision updated the chair and alternate chair information for the Executive Resources
Board (ERB). It included the Defense Intelligence Senior Executive Service (DISES), Defense
Intelligence Senior Level (DISL), and Highly Qualified Expert (HQE) positions in the ERB
process. It deleted Attachment 1 (MEASURING AND DISPLAYING COMPLIANCE WITH
POLICY), Figure A1.1 (Sample Metric of SES Members Filling Validated Positions) and Figure
A1.2 (Sample Metric of SES Members Filling Unvalidated Positions). And it updated the office
