Short clip: Air Force Reserve Command: Reservists spur innovation

June 5, 2007, 4:16pm PDT | Length: 00:00:54
Col. John Hayes, the CIO of the Air Force Reserve Command, says many innovative ideas come from part-time reservists, who also work in the private sector.

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Short clip: Air Force Reserve Command: Reservists spur innovation

>> The other neat way that we get innovative ideas within our command is through our reservists. As I said earlier, 20% of our people are full-timers. 80% are part-timers. And they're our citizen warriors. And they work for companies like Dell, and they work for companies like Cisco and Northrop Grumman and Lockheed Martin. They work for every company that we have in the country. So when I go out and visit these bases, they're not bashful about coming to me and saying, Colonel Hayes, have you thought about looking at this kind of technology for use within Air Force Reserve Command? It's interesting because I tell my active duty Air Force components, when they're dealing with a reservist, the first thing you ought to ask the reservist is what do they do when they're not wearing their uniform? Because they will bring a wealth of experience and capability to the fight that you might not even know unless you ask them what they're doing not wearing that uniform.

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