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Manpower Policy Constraints on the Availability of Military Billets for Outsourcing
June 1, 1998
The purpose of this study is to help the Navy identify the costs imposed on the Navy manpower system when military billets are outsourced. In particular, this paper examines how competition will affect the Navy's ability to achieve its objectives with respect to sea-shore rotation and homebasing. It provides, by community, estimates of how different outsourcing options would affect these military manpower decisions. The paper concludes that personnel policy constraints, especially the goal of providing an adequate base of shore billets for rotation, place significant limits on the number of military billets entered into A-76 competitions. Given the magnitude of manpower constraints, the Navy has two policy options: reduce the number of military billets to be competed or loosen the number of constraints. Loosening the constraints would involve: more carefully defining sea/shore ratios, allowing some A-76 competitions with high expected savings to be completed even if exceptions must be made to personnel policy goals, examining overseas shore billets that count as sea duty as good outsourcing candidates, and reexamining some of the IBR exclusions, especially for shore-intensive ratings. DTIC AD-B239314
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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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Manpower and Workload Factors that Dominate Navy Individual Training Costs
February 1, 1987
This research memorandum is the final report on a study of the factors that affect the costs of training Navy personnel. It identifies the relationship between students undergoing specialized skill training and the dominant operating costs of conducting that training.
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Specialized Skill Training and Personnel Retention as Factors Impacting Training Costs: Summary Report
August 1, 1986
This is a summary report of a CNO-directed study of factors that affect the costs of training Navy personnel. It focuses on the relationship between retention and specialized skill training for enlisted personnel on the expectation that increased retention could be expected to reduce training requirements and costs. Other detailed findings of the study are contained in several earlier CNA documents; this memorandum summarizes those findings, highlighting the more important patterns and trends.
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