9 Large stacks of paper filled the desk. Countless packages, enlisted performance reports and evaluation reviews stared menacingly back at him. Board evaluation season was always tedious and time consuming. Prather looked at his watch and around at his Airmen, hard at work to meet their deadline. Collectively, he and his team had put in more than 250 man-hours. He sighed. They were still not done. Right then, U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgt. Phillip E. Prather Jr., 377th Force Support Squadron force management section chief, and a former defender, knew it was time to make a change. Prather set out to develop an application to streamline the Enlisted Force Distribution Process (EFDP), starting at Kirtland Air Force Base, New Mexico.