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The U.S. Air Force can achieve more expeditionary agile combat support capacity than it currently has by realigning manpower, and it can realize substantial savings by reducing end strength and substituting civilian billets for military billets.

• The current ACS manpower mix has imbalances among its career fields relative to expeditionary demands.
• More expeditionary capacity can be achieved by rebalancing manpower among ACS career fields and between civilian and military billets.
• Cost savings can be realized by reducing end strength with no impact to expeditionary capacity if ACS manpower is rebalanced.

There are significant obstacles to rebalancing ACS manpower to better align with expeditionary demands.

• ACS authority is decentralized and unintegrated, hindering a concerted effort to balance ACS functional capabilities with an enterprise view.
• There is inadequate policy to inform the manpower system as to how to shape ACS forces to meet expeditionary demands.