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 ABOUT AIR
 The American Institutes for Research in the
 Behavioral Sciences (AIR) is an independent not-
 for-profit corporation established in 1946. Over
 150 professionals undertake basic and applied re-
 search and provide technical support and manage-
 ment services to government agencies, the
 military, not-for-profit organizations, and private
 corporations. At present, our annual volume is
 more than $14 million.
 AIR's current program encompasses ten areas of
 emphasis that include: human performance re-
 search, employment equity analysis, training
 research, research on the specially challenged,
 acquisition services, evaluation research, educa-
 tional research, health research, document design
 and communication research, and usability
 engineering.
 AIR was incorporated by John C. Flanagan in
 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, as an outgrowth of the
 successful Aviation Psychology Program in the
 United States Army Air Forces in World War II.
 Dr. Flanagan founded AIR as a research organiza-
 tion devoted to the scientific study of human re-
 souices and their effective use.
 Corporate headquarters are in Washington, DC.
 Three research centers are located in Palo Alto,
 California, Bedford, Massachusetts, and
 Washington, DC.
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 Replacing the DOT
 by: Norm Peterson, Director
 Personnel Research Group
 AIR Washington Research Center
 ncreased competition in world
 I markets has led United States'
 business and government organizations
 to focus on improving their ability to
 compete and win in the new global
 economic environment. A prime
 example of this effort is a major new
 Department of Labor initiative to
 develop a prototype of a new occupa-
 tional information and classification
 system to replace the current Diction-
 ary of Occupational Titles (DOT).
 All three AIR offices, along with
 five other research organizations
 (Westat, Personnel Decisions Research
 Institute, Inc. (PDRII), Management
 Research Institute (MRI), Jeanneret &
 Associates, and Policy Studies Associ-
 .ates (PSA)) are working with the
 Department to develop and evaluate
 the prototype by July 1996.
 The new system is envisioned as an
 electronic database or set of inter-
 related databases that would allow a
 variety of users to take maximum
 advantage of occupational information;
 users are expected to include, for
 example, secondary school students
 interested in exploring career options;
 unemployed workers interested in
 identifying occupations that would
 make use of their abilities, skills, and
 knowledge; and corporations interested
 in identifying job-seekers who possess
 the skills and knowledge required to
 successfully perform certain jobs.
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 Pelavin Associates, Inc.
 and AIR Join Forces
 by: David A. Goslin and Sol H. Pelavin
 On October 1, 1994, Pelavin Associ-
 ates, Inc. officially became Pelavin
 Research Institute, a wholly-owned, for-
 profit subsidiary of the American
 Institutes for Research. The merger of
 Pelavin Associates and AIR represents
 the culmination of more than eight
 months of discussions among the
 officers and senior staff of both organi-
 zations, as well as AIR's Board of
 Directors. The complementary strengths
 of the two organizations provide our
 sponsors with unmatched capabilities
 across a broad range of behavioral and
 social sciences.
 Established in 1982, Pelavin Associ-
 ates has been one of the nation's pre-
 miere education and training research
 corporations, providing expert advice
 to a wide range of government agen-
 cies and other organizations. Its clients
 have included the U.S. Departments of
 Education, Health and Human Ser-
 vices, Labor, and Interior; the Congres-
 sional Research Service; the College
 Board; the states of California, Dela-
 ware, Illinois, Maryland, New Jersey,
 South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas,
 Virginia, and Washington; the National
 Alliance of Business; and numerous
 private-sector corporations.
 Originally focused on education
 policy analysis for the federal govern-
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 Signing the final merger documents were (left to right) Alfred H. Munkenbeck,
 Jr. (Chair, AIR Board of Directors), David A. Goslin (AIR President), and Sol H.
 and Diane C. Pelavin of Pelavin Associates, Inc.
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 in the behavioral and
 social sciences since 1946
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