I think the thing that primarily struck me as strange was that in order to get the survey bonus (bring along the Task Force Survey Officer) I also have to bring along the entire task for administration. Of the full suite of task force officers, how many of them are actually relevant to a survey fleet? I haven't actually looked into this before, so bear with me while I do it now ...
Communications - Seems to mitigate the delay effects of poor training. Irrelevant until combat happens, and so largely irrelevant to a survey task force unless something has gone very, very wrong or else you're the sort of person who likes to scout with survey ships.
Diplomacy - Increases ship PPV. Irrelevant to a survey task force. Note that it's not irrelevant to a generalist task force that can also survey, but that'll be true of most of these.
Intelligence - Unsure what value this actually effects, but it seems to have something to do with adding intel to the intel window. Probably effects the chances to gain reliable intel on alien contacts? Seems largely irrelevant to a survey task force, again unless you scout with survey ships.
Operations - Unsure what value this actually effects, but seems to occupy much the same role as Communications, and so also largely irrelevant to a survey task force.
Logistics - Seems to improve any and all load times (cargo, ground units, etc) and so *largely* irrelevant to a survey task force. Unsure what effect, if any, this may have on loading/unloading geology/xenology teams, but that happens really quickly without the bonus anyway.
Public Affairs -
Not even listed on the wiki.
Fighter Operations - Reduces time to rearm/refuel fighters. While some survey fleets use fighters, refuel/rearm time seems largely irrelevant unless in combat. Relative to survey times, time taken for refueling survey fighters is negligible with or without any bonuses.
Survey - On ship commanders, this increases the number of survey points generated per tick. On task force admins, it's not listed on the wiki.
So yeah, carting around an entire task force admin team from system to system just seems a little silly for a survey task force. Maybe there's some kind of suggestion we could come up with to make this better for Steve's new command module system for C# Aurora? We should refine it here before posting to the official suggestion thread.