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Compensation Strategy for the Future Force
September 1, 2000
The Assistant Deputy Chief of Naval Operations, Manpower and Personnel (N1B) requested that CNA analyze the Navy's compensation system in view of current recruiting and manning shortfalls and anticipated future changes in the Navy's workforce. This study will help the Navy implement an effective, market-based compensation system that will give it the ability to attract, retain, and motivate a high-quality workforce in a competitive, dynamic labor market. The intent is to take a strategic look at Navy compensation policy and practices. The starting point is to consider what the Navy wants to accomplish with its compensation system. What goals, in terms of managing human resources, can be met through compensation policies and practices? We consider human resources management system approaches, as well as approaches suggested by economics literature, and arrive at a succinct set of strategic goals.
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Women at Sea: Unplanned Losses and Accession Planning
March 1, 1999
The Deputy of Chief of Naval Operations for Manpower and Personnel asked CNA to study various issues related to maintaining fleet readiness while expanding the role of women in the operating forces. First, we studied the pattern of losses of personnel from ships by gender and explored policies aimed at reducing them. Second, we updated a CNA planning model that links women's accession plans, bunk plans, and a variety of personnel policy parameters. Recommendations include maintaining a presence of female Chief Petty Officers of a least 5 percent of the female crew in order to reduce the level of unplanned losses of junior women, and increasing A-School proportion of female accessions in order to improve retention of female personnel.
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Requirements for Humanitarian Assistance and Peace Operations: Insights from Seven Case Studies
March 1, 1995
As part of the CNa project on the Marine Corps and Humanitarian Assistance Operations, sponsored by the Marine Corps Combat Development Center (MCCDC), this research memorandum examines USMC involvement in seven Humanitarian Assistance/Peace Operation (HA/POs). This project seeks to help MCCDC identify requirements (whether in doctrine, organization, training, or equipment) to improve the Marine Corps' ability to effectively perform HA/PO tasks. The project team is identifying the range of HA/PO requirements through a variety of methods, including seminar gaming, evaluation of existing doctrine and policies, and evaluation of the historical record.
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Primary Flight Training, UHPT, and Pipeline Selection
January 1, 1994
The Navy trains pilots to fly a variety of aircraft. At present, all student pilots attend primary training in the fixed-wing T-34 training aircraft and are then assigned to specialized advanced training 'pipelines.' In this paper, we document the Navy's use of observed flight performance in primary to assign student pilots for advanced training. We examine the ability of the Navy to predict student pilot performance before primary begins and early in primary. First, we predict primary flight performance before flight training begins, using the data employed to screen candidates into flight training. Next, we predict primary performance using flight stage grades earned early in primary. We address two major policy issues: (1) how would pipeline selection be affected if the Navy had two separate primaries, one for helicopter training and another for fixed-wing training? and (2) how would pipeline selection be affected if helicopter pilots were selected early in primary training?
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Military Relations with Humanitarian Relief Organizations: Observations from Restore Hope
October 1, 1993
Operation RESTORE HOPE, the December 1992 U.S. military intervention in Somalia, was a significant military operation that coincided with a massive relief effort. One aspect of the operation that was fairly new to many Marines there, and to our military as a whole, was the degree of interaction with workers from Humanitarian Relief Organizations (HROs). Although both the military and the HROs accomplished their missions in Somalia, relations between the two groups were sometimes strained. In future operations--in which the threat might be greater and closer cooperation necessary--military-HRO relations may need to be better. As part of the CNA RESTORE HOPE reconstruction project, this paper examines military-HRO relations in that operation. The paper draws on the RESTORE HOPE experience so that future commanders can better understand the complexities of military-HRO relations. In the paper, we review various aspects of the relationship, identify the causes of the problems between the groups, and suggest options that commanders may consider for improving relations in future operations. See also CRMs 93-96, 93-114, 93-120, 93-126, 93-148, and 93-152.
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Aviation Logistics Support: Retail Sparing Issues
June 1, 1993

The main objective of this study is to develop the cost-versus-readiness relationship for alternative aviation supply inventories (called AVCALs). This analysis will help the Navy develop future inventory policy by answering questions like: (1) what are the alternative supply support options and (2) what is th e expected loss in readiness when supply support costs are reduced.

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Managing the Enlisted Marine Corps in the 1990s Study: Final Report
February 1, 1993
This research memorandum completes the Managing the Enlisted Marine Corps in the 1990s Study. It summarizes study analyses, referring the reader to more detailed papers if more information is required.
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Evaluating Minimum Aptitude Standards for the Infantry Occupational Field
August 1, 1990
The purpose of this paper is to present a rationale for evaluating minimum qualifiying standards that incorporate policy guidance and directives together with data from the Job Performance Measurement (JPM) project. First, policy guidance and directives are discussed and defined more precisely for use in quantitative analyses. The policy statements are then applied to results from the JPM project to compute a minimum qualifying aptitude score for the infantry occupational field.
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OPNAV Functional Reorganization Study: Final Report
February 1, 1990
This research memorandum analyzes the pros and cons of reorganizing the staff of the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV) along functional lines versus platform lines. CNA analysts drew upon extensive organizational literature and conducted a series of interviews with past and present personnel within OPNAV as a basis for this analysis. Several levels of problem severity are discussed and corresponding levels of reorganization postulated.
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Statement Before the Subcommittee on Industry and Technology Senate Armed Services Committee
November 1, 1989
Presents a statement to the Senate Armed Services Committee which summarizes the methodology, findings, and recommendations of the Program Documentation and Reporting Requirements Study.
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