Alignment of Department of Defense Manpower, Resources, and Personnel Systems

by Thie, Harry J.; Yardley, Roland J.; Harrell, Margaret C.; Brancato, Kevin

• ISBN13: 9780833041241
• ISBN10: 083304124X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-06-15
• Publisher: RAND Corporation

Summary

An analysis of whether the Department of Defense manpower, resources, and personnel systems are aligned to provide the personnel inventory necessary to meet changing military readiness and operational requirements effectively and efficiently.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Purpose of research	p. 1
Methodology	p. 2
Report organization	p. 2
The issues in systems terms	p. 3
Systems	p. 3
Why three subsystems?	p. 6
Why not an enterprise architecture?	p. 7
Is the personnel system cart or horse?	p. 8
Summary	p. 9
The issues in terms of manpower, resources, and personnel	p. 11
System objective	p. 11
Background	p. 11
Long-standing practices and frictions affecting outcomes	p. 12
Spaces and budget dollars are related	p. 12
Faces and budget dollars are related	p. 13
Operating strength deviation: difference between unit faces and unit spaces	p. 13
Long-standing frictions within and between systems	p. 15
Other factors affecting the personnel system	p. 16
Nature of change	p. 16
Time as a variable	p. 16
Data and operating practices	p. 17
Summary	p. 17
Data analysis	p. 19
Year-to-year changes in authorizations	p. 20
Observations from data analysis	p. 22
Case studies	p. 25
Summary of case studies	p. 25
Stryker	p. 25
Northcom	p. 26
Stryker case study	p. 26
Data	p. 27
How Stryker Brigade IOC manpower requirements were resourced	p. 27
Changes in the number and type of personnel	p. 29
Stryker conclusions	p. 32
NORTHCOM case study	p. 32
New and changed missions required a reallocation of manpower	p. 33
Challenges in resourcing the new manpower requirements	p. 34
How NORTHCOM's IOC manpower requirements were resourced	p. 34
How NORTHCOM's IOC was met	p. 36
A new process was needed to resource NORTHCOM's FOC	p. 36
J-8 led the process to resource NORTHCOM FOC	p. 37
Guiding principles in resourcing NORTHCOM	p. 38
Overall approach used in NORTHCOM resourcing process	p. 38
Where did the redistributed authorizations come from?	p. 39
Relevant lessons	p. 39
NORTHCOM conclusions	p. 40
Observations from the case studies	p. 40
Conclusions	p. 41
Is the system meeting stable year-to-year requirements consistently?	p. 41
Can the system meet rapidly changing requirements reasonably?	p. 41
What factors are limiting effectiveness and efficiency?	p. 42
Overall conclusions	p. 43
Table of Contents provided by Blackwell. All Rights Reserved.