Attracting the Best: How the Military Competes for Information Technology Personnel: MG-108-OSD - Tapa blanda

This report focuses on the factors affecting the supply of information technology personnel to the active duty enlisted force, and the findings point to the conclusion that the IT training opportunities offered by the millitary can help secure the supply of IT personnel over the long haul.

James Hosek (Ph.D. Economics, University of Chicago) is a senior economist at RAND, editor-in-chief of the RAND Journal of Economics, RAND Graduate School professor, and former director of RAND's Defense Manpower Research Center.

Michael Mattock (M.S., Social Science, California Institute of Technology) is an economist at RAND whose research interests include computational economics and modeling decisionmaking under uncertainty.

A former senior research associate at USIP, C. Christine Fair is a senior political analyst with the RAND Corporation.