COMPASS: Comprehensive, Optimal Manpower Personnel Analysis Support System

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COMPASS Comprehensive, Optimal Manpower
Personnel Analysis Support System

• Rodney S. Myers, Kimberly Crayton, and Colin
  Osterman
• Navy Personnel Research, Studies, and Technology

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Modeling Objectives

• Advanced early warning system
• Identify potential problems and opportunities
• Executive flight simulator
• What-if analysis to evaluate alternatives
• Training platform for decision makers
• Facilitate in-depth understanding of the
  enterprise

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Methodology

• Navy workforce analysis tool
• Supply Chain Model of Navy functional processes
• Computer-based simulation
• Optimization (resource allocation policy)
• Sensitivity analysis

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Target Use/Users

• Problem solving
• Functional insight sensitivity
• THE ANALYSIS CELL
• Analytical skills
• Functional Navy knowledge interest
• Chartered to perform analysis of Navys workforce
• Scenario(s)
• Analysis of personnel inventories at critical
  paygrades, i.e., midgrade shortages

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Computer Model

• Supply Chain Structure
• Functional process design
• Business rules representing transitions
• Transition rates
• Simulation model
• Virtually movement through time
• Stochastic
• Utilizes randomization
• What-if/evaluation of range(s) of possibilities

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Computer Model, cont.

• Simulation Optimization
• Overall objective function
• Executes multiple runs to reach an optimal
  solution
• Technology
• Portable Java based application
• Efficient run-times operation

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Navy Functional Areas - Modeled

• Recruitment/Selection/Classification
• Loss/Separation
• Training
• Advancement
• Reenlistment
• Distribution

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Recruit/Select/Classify (RSC)

• Candidate input module
• Delayed entry program (DEP)
• Qualification testing
• Accession program, i.e., NCS

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Loss/Separate

• Computation separation tracking
• Eligible to separate
• EAOS loss
• Voluntary separation

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Train

• Training and EMC conversion
• Recruit training
• A School

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Advance

• Paygrade changes
• Demotion promotion
• Vacancy driven
• Examined advancements

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Re-enlist

• Retention decision
• EMC and overall inventory
• SRB budgeting

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Distribute

• Distribution and assignment
• IA, Strikers
• Sailor to billet matching
• NEC accounting

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Scenario Analysis
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Model Setup
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Policy Parameters
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Metrics
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Results View