Robbert, Albert A., Gates, Susan M., Elliott, Marc N., National Defense Research Institute (U. S.)

Outsourcing of Dod Commercial Activities: Impacts on Civil Service Employees

Politics & Social Sciences

Gates, Susan M.

Robbert, Albert A.

United States Department of Defense Office of the Secretary of Defense

National Defense Research Institute (U. S.)

Elliott, Marc N.

Politics & Government

UNKNO

Ranges and airspace for Air Force training purposes are scarce resources for which the Air Force must present a rigorously defensible claim. To help the Air Force articulate its aggregate needs, assess the adequacy of its existing assets, and justify new or existing assets, RAND and the Air Combat Command developed an analytic structure containing a joint mission framework, training requirements, infrastructure requirements, and the current infrastructure. RAND also constructed a relational database that can be used to support a variety of staff processes and analyses. The study team found that centralized repositories of information on ranges and airspace are limited, with little provision for updating the data. The range and airspace database partially fills this gap and is a powerful tool for range and airspace managers and a potential tool for other aircrew training resource managers. But it must be maintained and updated, which will require a trained administrator and an understanding of update procedures by managers in the field.

Relating Ranges and Airspace to Air Combat Command Mission and Training Requirements

Engineering & Transportation

Carrillo, Manuel

Williams, William A.

Kerchner, Robert

Naslund, Willard

Engineering

RAND Corporation

Ranges and airspace for Air Force training purposes are scarce resources for which the Air Force must present a rigorously defensible claim. RAND and the Air Combat Command developed an analytic structure containing a joint mission framework, training requirements, infrastructure requirements, and the current infrastructure. RAND also constructed a relational database containing several embedded models that complete parts of the assessment process for range and airspace infrastructure. A graphical user interface (GUI) facilitates user access to the database. To realize the power and potential of the decision support system, a continuing investment must be made in the human capital needed to maintain and operate it. The decision support system could be expanded to include other range and airspace management information, efficient calculation of other training resource requirements, and requirements and infrastructure from non-Air Combat Command range and airspace users.

A Decision Support System for Evaluating Ranges and Airspace

Science & Math

Astronomy & Space Science

The Air Force Materiel Command (AFMC) develops, acquires, and maintains most Air Force systems and is tailoring its workforce to adapt to changes in technology, weapons, and battlefield requirements. This volume is a practical guide to the main steps in analytical workforce planning and development: determining workforce demand, describing workforce supply, comparing the demand with the supply, and implementing solutions.

Workforce Planning and Development Processes: A Practical Guide (Technical Report (RAND))

Business & Money

Driscoll, Kevin

Vernez, Georges

Massey, Hugh G.

Business Culture

Assesses the FY 2012 reorganization of the Air Force Material Command, which was undertaken as one of the initiatives to achieve mandated budget reductions by eliminating civilian manpower positions, thus achieving cost savings.

Assessment of the Air Force Material Command Reorganization: Report for Congress

History

Shelton, William

Fox, Bernard

Ausink, John A.

Conley, Raymond E.

Werber, Laura

Lynch, Kristin F.

Snyder, Don

Nowak, Sarah A.

Thirtle, Michael

Military

Processes for determining U.S. Air Force manpower requirements vary across and within the workforces. The primary focus of this report is on quantitative manpower requirements processes and the extent to which they are validated, coordinated, and consistent. For wartime or deployment needs, this report seeks to determine if a common-sight picture of demands is available, particularly for non-operational, non-maintenance activities referred to as agile combat support. It also explores the qualitative side of personnel requirements.

Air Force Manpower Requirements and Component Mix: A Focus on Agile Combat Support

Harrington, Lisa M.

Terry, Tara L.

The Air Force faces a persistent and critical shortage of fighter pilots. This report evaluates the feasibility and likely impact of paths available to either increase the supply or reduce the demand for fighter pilots.

Reducing Air Force Fighter Pilot Shortages

Rosello, Anthony D.

Anderegg, Clarence R.

Bigelow, James H.

Taylor, William W.

Pita, James

Researchers conducted a study to propose new approaches for determining staffing needs in the U.S. Secret Service's highest-priority administrative, professional, and technical functions. Using process mapping and business-case analysis, the team created staffing models. This report documents the team's methods, implementation considerations, and lessons learned for future workforce studies.

Determining Staffing Needs for Administrative, Professional, and Technical Workers in the U.S. Secret Service: Methods and Lessons Learned

Lim, Nelson

Schulker, David

Management & Leadership

This report addresses the issues of promotions, tenure, and other aspects of officer career management that lend themselves to modernization. The authors identify statutory, policy, cultural, and fiscal constraints on the military departments' flexibilities to make changes; they gather service perspectives on these constraints; and they offer potential mitigation strategies.

Officer Career Management: Additional Steps Toward Modernization

Kidder, Katherine L.

Lee, Caitlin

Schaefer, Agnes Gereben

Waggy, William H.

Lander, Natasha

Job Hunting & Careers

Appointment scrolls are required for initial appointment of officers and for reappointment in a different grade, military service, or component. In some cases, they are necessary for appointment to a special branch or segment of a service's officer corps. The Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) processes over 2,500 appointment and promotion packages per year, and many require rework to correct administrative errors and incorrect information. Even without rework, the appointment and promotion scrolling process takes time, affecting the assignment timelines of officers needed in new capacities that require reappointment. The Office of the Under Secretary for Personnel and Readiness seeks to reduce the time needed to process appointments and the incidence of administrative errors, which result in time lost, administrative costs, and processing delays. In this report, researchers evaluate the requirements for creating appointment scrolls, examine the highly varying processes used to meet these requirements, identify problems in the scrolling process that create delays for both the services and OSD, and recommend improvements to increase efficiency. In addition, they examine Title 10 of the U.S. Code and other related statutes to identify changes needed to appoint officers within a military service rather than within a component of a military service. Book jacket.

Reducing Rework in Officer Appointment Processes

Jackson, John C.

Acheson-Field, Hannah

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