Communications-Electronics Programs Management Career Ladder, AFSCs 29630, 29670, and 29690.

The Communications-Electronics Programs Management career ladder job inventory was administered during the period July through November 1978. Survey results are based on responses from 252 of the 386 personnel assigned to the 296X0 career ladder. This represents 65 percent of all assigned career ladder members. Two major job clusters and four independent job types were identified within the career ladder. Base Programmers, representing the largest cluster, form the core of the communication-electronics programs management career ladder. The second large cluster were Headquarters Programmers who, as their title implies, are assigned to Communications Areas or Major Commands in planning, reviewing, monitoring, and coordinating functions. Overall, the career ladder was found to be very homogeneous in terms of tasks performed. Generally, 3- and 7-skill level airmen perform essentially the same job, with few exceptions. Both skill level groups spend over 86 percent of their time performing technical tasks. Nine-skill level personnel also spend the majority of their time on technical tasks 71 percent which is rather unusual.