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               COMPTROLLAR GENERAL OF THE UNITED STATES
   900WASHINGTON. D.C. 2               he546

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RELEASED


The Honorable Jamie L. Whitten
Chairman, Committee on Appropriations
House of Representatives


Dear Mr. Chairman:


      In response to former ChairmaxMal'n  letter of Sep-
 tember 19, 1978, we have evaluated AtheAir Force's plans to
 increase staffing at the Military Airlift Command's aerialjrzec(oo
 port    The increases were based on a projected total re-
 quirement for 5,914 spaces and were to be accomplished by
 transferring 426 existing staffing spaces to the aerial
 port function during fiscal year 1979.

      In January 1979 the Air Force revised the fiscal year
 1979 staffing requirement downward to 5,691 spaces, there-
 by reducing the requirement for additional aerial port
 personnel to 203 spaces. Our review of the revised figures
 revealed several errors in the data used to make the com-
 putations. Correction of these errors reduces the total
 requirement even further to 5,594 spaces, or 106 spaces more
 than the pre-1979 staffing level.

     The Air Force also projected an aerial port staffing
requirement for fiscal year 1980 of 5,883 spaces, or 395
spaces more than the pre-1979 level. Again, ,M found data
errors in this computation. Correction of these errors re-
duces the total figure to 5,790 spaces, or 302 spaces more
than the pre-1979 staffing level.--

AIR FORCE METHODOLOGY FOR COMPUTING
STAFFING REQUIREMENTS
     In past years the Air Force computed staffing require-
ments by applying historical monthly average workload data
to engineered staffing standards. Beginning with fiscal year
1979 tomputations, the methodology was expanded to recognize
upward or downward trends in workload.

     This was done by using regression analyses and fore-
casting techniques in addition to staffing standards. The
regression analysis helped derive a mathematical equation
which expressed the functional relationship between staffing


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