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organizational distribution of the equipments, and the size of
the MOS and relative percentages of soldiers across the grade
levels. Overall, MOS restructuring can be summarized as a
complex, multi-dimensional decision. The considerations, and
constraints versus requirements, relate to at least training
impacts, personnel characteristics, force structure, equipment
design, personnel resources, manpower resources, and task
structure.
As noted above, the program objective is to develop aids to
facilitate MOS and CMF restructuring decisions regarding such
questions as: Is restructuring needed at all? Should a new MOS
be created? Should MOSS be merged? Is an overall redesign of
the branch MOSS and CMFs needed? Whatever is done impacts
directly on the branch training system design. The addition or
deletion of tasks which require training imposes a requirement to
modify the training system to accomodate those changes.
Program Overview
The current formulation of the program is presented Figure
1. Work has been accomplished or is projected for the near
future on: The Army Authorization Domentation System (TAADS) (a
manpower data base), and personnel and training data bases; the
ability, equipment, and task domains; and trade-off algorithms.
Recent.accomplishments with respect to the TAADS data base, and
the ability and equipment domains will be described in the next
section.
As depicted in Figure 1, the intent is to provide the
analyst with the tools needed to identify desireable MOS
restructuring possibilities, and to consider these withing
manpower, personnel, and training resource constraints: and then
to provide the means to do tradeoffs between the alternatives
with respect to manpower, personnel, and training impacts. In
Figure 1, under "Trade-Off Algorithms", both operations-based and
requirements-based are noted. Operations-based analyses are
those performed, in the Army, by the Personnel Proponent as the
basis for preparing the paperwork which will actually cause a MOS
restructure action to be implemented. These analyses are
sometimes triggered by the outcomes of requirements-based
analyses. Requirements-based analyses often take place when
there is a major change in equipment inventories, doctrine,
organization, or force structure. These requirements-based
analyses tend to be performed by the combat developers in
coordination with the training developers and personnel
proponents.
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