United States Government Publishing Office publisher pbl distributor dst United States Government Accountability Office National Security and International Affairs Division author aut Government Organization text government publication eng GAOREPORTS Legislative Agency Publications gao legislative 2010-08-12 U.S. Government Printing Office 2000-08-15 monographic deposited born digital 43 p. GA 1.13:NSIAD-00-201 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-00-201 P0b002ee18039be24 f:ns00201 DGPO 2010-08-12 2011-03-24 GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-00-201 machine generated eng fdlp REPORT GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-00-201 NSIAD-00-201 Combat readiness Defense contingency planning Human resources utilization Air Force personnel Armed forces abroad Mobilization Air Force reservists Air Force Expeditionary Aerospace Force Concept Letter Report NSIAD

The Expeditionary Aerospace Force Concept is a way to help manage commitments to theater commanders and reduce the constant deployment burden on its people. Each force group is to deploy once every 15 months for 90 days. The concept will likely achieve its objective of spreading the deployment burden over a larger part of the Air Force's combat forces; mobility air forces are not likely to be affected. Active combat units in overseas commands will likely see significant increases in deployments while deployment of U.S.-based units will drop. Both reserve and active mobility air forces are likely to continue their high deployment. The reserves face two challenges: providing enough personnel in specialty areas where the need is high but the availability of qualified personnel is low and matching the reserves' aircraft capabilities with their increased role in contingency operations. The Air Force would experience a significant disruption in its ability to rotate forces to contingency operations under the concept if it were called on to simultaneously support a single major war. After deploying forces to a single major war, no Air Expeditionary Force pairs would have enough assets to maintain ongoing contingency operations. https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-00-201/html/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-00-201.htm https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-00-201/pdf/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-00-201.pdf GAO/NSIAD-00-201 https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GAOREPORTS-NSIAD-00-201 Letter Report GAO/NSIAD-00-201; Force Structure: Air Force Expeditionary Concept Offers; Combat readiness Defense contingency planning Human resources utilization Air Force personnel Armed forces abroad Mobilization Air Force reservists Air Force Expeditionary Aerospace Force Concept Title 10 Section 12301(d) 10 U.S.C. 12301(d)