Research for IGCA Codes

The Enhanced Billet Analysis Tool (BAT V2) is a Microsoft Access application that allows manpower analysts to quickly determine how changes to the force structure and/or shore infrastructure affect the Navy’s overall manpower requirements. BAT V2 provides four major capabilities to help analysts study current and future manpower requirements. First, using data from the Total Force Manpower Management System (TFMMS), it can determine how changes to the force structure (and shore infrastructure) affect manpower requirements and costs within the FYDP. Second, it can estimate how changes to the force structure (and shore infrastructure) affect shore manpower requirements and the size of the Navy’s Individuals Account (e.g., enlisted student billet requirements). Third, it can forecast future manpower requirements beyond the FYDP (out to 30 years). And, fourth, it provides the capability to examine the effects of changing manpower requirements for individual force structure units or shore activities on the Navy’s total requirements. This last capability also allows users to define manpower requirements for future platforms (not yet in TFMMS) and include these platforms in scenarios to forecast future requirements.