The Officer Personnel Management System (OPMS) requires fundamental change. While there are basic issues of pressing concern today, the OPMS XXI Task Force1 believes that those issues must be resolved in the context of developing an officer corps that will meet the challenges of the early 21st century--to lead Army XXI in mastering the capabilities and functions outlined in Army Vision 2010, Joint Vision 2010, and DA PAM 100-XX, Force XXI Institutional Army Redesign. In short, OPMS must address the needs of the future as well as correct today's problems. The current OPMS requires field-grade officers to do too many different things today for them to excel at any one of them. The requirements of Army XXI and Army After Next (AAN) will exacerbate this problem. If the purpose of an officer personnel system is to promote organizational excellence--and organizational excellence is directly tied to experience, expertise, and teamwork...