Research for Billet Analysis Tool

To help the Navy study manpower requirements within its support infrastructure, CNA developed the Shore/Support Module to augment the capabilities of the Billet Analysis Tool (BAT). This module, when used in conjunction with BAT, will provide manpower analysts with more robust estimates of how changes to the force structure affect the Navy’s overall manpower requirements. The Shore/Support Module estimates the effects of force structure changes on manpower requirements in several of the Navy’s shore/support infrastructure’s work function areas—namely, the individuals account, training, maintenance, and health care services. For the individuals account, it estimates the student billet requirements for A-school training, NEC training, and Recruit training. In the area of training, it estimates instructor requirements for A- and C-school training. For maintenance functions, it estimates billet requirements at intermediate and depot-level maintenance activities that result from changing the number of ships, submarines, and aviation squadrons. And, for health care services, it estimates manpower requirements for the segment of the health care force that provides medical care to nondeployed active duty Servicemembers and their dependents but is not directly tied to medical mobilization requirements during wartime or in support of contingency operations.