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Industrial Preparedness Planning: A Review of the Literature
March 1, 1988
This research memorandum reviews the history of Industrial Preparedness Planning (IPP) as revealed in government directives, past studies, and budget documents. IPP policy development, planning methods, and organizations are summarized, and alternative planning methods proposed by other researchers are presented. The paper identifies problems that impede good planning and presents conclusions that help to explain the dilemma of IPP today. Recommendations from other studies are presented. Navy options for IPP will be presented in a future research memorandum concluding the study.
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The Navy Manpower-Requirements System
August 1, 1987
A key factor in the Navy's ability to meet its peacetime and wartime contingencies is the supply of trained manpower available to perform assigned missions. This research memorandum describes the process used by the Navy to set, implement, and execute manpower requirements. In addition, it presents conclusions and makes recommendations for improving those processes.
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Naval Reserve Forces: The Historical Experience with Involuntary Recalls
April 1, 1986
One seldom considered dimension in examinations of active-reserve force tradeoffs is our historical experience in calling up and using Naval Reserve Forces in circumstances and crises short of general war. The fact that Naval Reserve Forces have not been called in a host of conceivable recall situations, coupled with the sparse but mostly troubled experience when reserve forces were in fact recalled involuntarily, add useful perspective to the ongoing debate about the active-reserve force mix in the Navy. This memorandum examines that experience from the early days of the Korean War to the present. It includes a discussion of lessons from past experience which seem germane to current considerations.
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