Research for Workload

This paper examines labor use trends for the Navy, with the objective of identifying support functions that are potential candidates for labor adjustments. The authors calculate total labor for Navy IGCA inventory based functions each year from FY 2002 through FY 2005 as the sum of military, civil service, and contractor work-years. The latter are estimated from annual contracting dollars and cost per contractor for the federal supply classification (FSC) codes that are associated with each of the IGCA functions. They sought output measures for the functions, but found that useable output measures could not be found for about half of the functions. They develop and use a system for ranking the potential of functions as candidates for labor adjustments and recommend 14 candidate functions for further detailed examination. They also provide a conceptual model of how these functional output measures might be used as inputs to a Leonteif input-output business interaction model which could link shore function outputs to warfighter requirements and capabilities.