Less Expensive Internal Management Options May Be Viable Alternatives for Countering Critical Military Skill Shortages

Because the services have requested across-the-board increases and numerous other monetary incentives and benefit packages as inducements to attract and retain enlisted personnel, GAO reviewed the Air Force's effort to determine: (1) the extent and nature of its personnel shortages; (2) what factors it identified as contributing to the shortages; and (3) what the Air Force is doing, and plans to do, to minimize future manpower shortages by modifying personnel management policies and practices.