| Branch | U.S. Air Force |
| Series | DAFI |
| Publication date | 2018-02-09 (8.5 years ago) |
| Status | Current |
| Proponent / OPR | SAF/AA |
| Source of record | AF e-Publishing |
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This publication formalizes and provides guidance for the Airmen Powered by Innovation program. Specifically, it outlines procedures for submitting, evaluating and refining ideas, pitching ideas to Decision Makers (see para 2.6), implementing ideas, and ultimately getting ideas that scale across our Air Force.
This document is a revision of AFI 38-402, Airmen Powered by Innovation and Suggestion Program, dated 9 February 2018, through incorporation of General Memorandum, dated 7 February 2020 and must be reviewed in its entirety. This AFI prescribes new procedures for processing ideas at and below the MAJCOM level, replaces a provision for monetary awards with professional development opportunities, amends procedures on providing feedback to Innovators, and deletes the ANG (Title 32) Suggestion Program
Publications state their own changes on page 1 — behind a PDF the official host will not serve to a search engine. This is that section, verbatim. It describes the edition above, not every historical change.
| Functional community | Publications | Which ones |
|---|---|---|
| Financial Management | 1 | DAFMAN 65-605V1 |
| Materiel Management | 1 | DAFMAN 23-300 ACC Sup |
2 publications in 2 other communities depend on this one, which Manpower & Organization owns. Each community inspects its own publications; a dependency that crosses communities is owned by nobody, which is why this list normally does not exist anywhere. Built from the publications' own citations, so it reflects what we have read.
If DAFI 38-402 changes, these are the documents that point at it. Extracted from the publications' own text, so it reflects what we have read, not a complete dependency map. Every publishing office validates its own document; nobody validates the seams between them.
Records in this branch carrying the same series and number — interim changes, guidance memoranda, and unit supplements. A copy stamped with one of these is a different document from the base publication.