The U.S. Air Force is creating a system to track the progress of diversity, equity, inclusion, and accessibility goals.
With the “DEIA Progress Dashboard,” the Air Force can track “progress towards addressing racial, ethnic, and gender disparities.”
The information comes from materials obtained after a Freedom of Information Act request.
According to the Air Force, the tool will aid in “transparency and accountability.”
The DEIA Progress Dashboard is a “living product that will be continually enhanced with additional data sources as they become available to ensure that [the Air Force] has the most comprehensive view into quantifiable disparities possible,” documents described.
Chief of Space Operations Gen. John W. “Jay” Raymond noted that diversity and inclusion is “fundamental to readiness and mission success.”
“We all come from different backgrounds, different cultures, and subscribe to a variety of different beliefs. It is these differences that make us a highly effective force. They underwrite our ability to be agile and innovative, to compete, deter and win. Inclusion is the action that draws the best from every one of our members, providing advantage for our nation as one, ready and successful team,” Raymond said in 2021 after the Air Force released reports on racial disparity.
Reporting from The Blaze:
The Air Force also recently developed a second system, the Secretary of the Air Force Office of Diversity and Inclusion Demographics Dashboard, which provides “highly customizable queries of the intersectionality between race, ethnicity, and sex,” records revealed. According to documents obtained by the [Daily Caller News Foundation], the dashboard is for internal use only. However, the diversity office aims to make it available for all DEIA professionals in the Air Force.
