Assessing the Implications of Policy Options for the Military Personnel Budget: An Analytic Framework for Evaluating Costs and Trade Offs (Abstract)
Abstract
The military personnel budget provides financial resources to compensate active military personnel (MILPERS).This includes pay and allowances, subsistence of enlisted personnel, permanent-change-of-station travel, and other military personnel costs. Spending on MILPERS has grown at an average annual rate of 3.3 percent per year since fiscal year (FY) 2000, to approximately $36 billion in FY 2021. This outpaced growth in prices in the overall economy, which averaged 1.9 percent per year for the same period. To ensure a ready workforce without undercutting modernization efforts, the Department of the Air Force (DAF) must explore options to maximize MILPERS affordability. At the same time, the DAF must consider the nonmonetary trade-offs and risks that these options entail. The DAF needs an analytic framework to view savings, trade-offs, and risks of different solution options alongside one another; this report describes and applies a tool that can be used to evaluate the implications of workforce and personnel policies on MILPERS spending.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 17, 2023
- Accession Number
- AD1190623
Entities
People
- Matthew E. Walsh
- Raymond E. Conley
- Thomas Light
Organizations
- RAND Corporation