Research for Contractor

The large size and cost of the Navy’s shore establishment make it imperative that the Navy have an effective and efficient shore man¬power requirements determination process (SMRDP). Such an SMRDP implies having both the right number and right mix of shore personnel. N12 asked CNA to develop recommendations for how to make the Navy’s SMRDP more effective and efficient. The Navy’s current SMRDP has several serious problems, including poor management oversight and lack of accountability, little to no standardization between (and possibly within) Budget Submitting Offices (BSOs), unqualified staff with major roles in SMRDP, overstaffing and staffing with incorrect personnel, and failure to give good incentives to BSOs. In this study, CNA developed several recommendations, including: building a set of SMRDP guidelines for all BSOs to follow, not applying the sea requirements process to shore require¬ments, making all “Rotation” and “Career Progression” billets subject to cost analysis and review, taking a harder look at all billets ineligible for competition by tra¬dition or DoD decision, aligning incentives of BSOs and Navy for use of military manpower, using activity-based costing or similar methodology to calculate actual (not estimated) cost of activities, and increasing training for staff involved in shore manpower requirements determination.