Maintaining the Balance Between Manpower, Skill Levels, and PERSTEMPO

Raymond E. Conley, Albert A. Robbert, Joseph G. Bolten, Manuel J. Carrillo, H. G. Massey

ResearchPublished Nov 21, 2006

For a variety of reasons, including deployments, many Air Force organizations have been finding significant differences between the number of personnel they were authorized to have and the number of people actually available. RAND Project AIR FORCE undertook a detailed study of the related issues and policy implications. The researchers collected historical data and available manpower determinants; interviewed a variety of personnel; and analyzed the personnel strength histories of selected wings, functional areas, and specialties, eventually broadening the focus to the cumulative affect of the Air Force human resource system on wing-level manpower, skill levels, and personnel tempo. Among the resulting recommendations were ways the Air force can improve its manpower bookkeeping and how it determines requirements, including greater use of dynamic simulation models, as well as implementing metrics comparing planned and actual burdens on personnel, especially when on-the-job training is involved.

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Conley, Raymond E., Albert A. Robbert, Joseph G. Bolten, Manuel J. Carrillo, and H. G. Massey, Maintaining the Balance Between Manpower, Skill Levels, and PERSTEMPO. Santa Monica, CA: RAND Corporation, 2006. https://www.rand.org/pubs/monographs/MG492.html.
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