Strategic Manpower Planning Tool

BACKGROUND N1, N9, and USFF Manpower, Personnel, and Training Enlisted (MPTE) planners are working with ONR to develop a Future Naval Capability (FY 17 start) that integrates quantitative analysis capability and captures dependencies across the enterprise. ONR, in partnership with the N1 and the MPTE domain, is interested in obtaining information, concepts, ideas, and currently available and potential technologies that simulates MPTE dynamics and outcomes over time, and enables rigorous yet rapid analysis of a wide variety of "what if" scenarios (e.g. potential MPTE policy options or COAs, exogenous conditions such as shifts in threats and mission requirements, changes in economic conditions, etc.). Analysis will be able to forecast readiness, sustainability, and cost impacts and trade-offs and highlight key risks for particular scenarios. SPECIFIC INFORMATION OF INTEREST MPTE Enterprise Systems Framework: ONR is looking for ideas that may facilitate the modeling and simulation of enterprise-wide manpower executive decisions for the purpose of gaining a fundamental understanding of the risks and uncertainties underlying MP&T interconnections and performance drivers including potential impact points, time delays and pathways of decisions across the enterprise. ONR seeks avenues that lead to a better understand total ownership costs and how these costs are impacted by intra- and inter- relationships between systems that may be both independent and unique in the manpower enterprise. Cost models of multiple courses of actions are especially important that have the potential to iteratively estimate impact and cost at varying levels. Human Resource Simulation and Model Tool: ONR seeks to better understand current and potential technologies that can capture a broad range of performance outcomes (e.g. cost, performance, manning, output) in a complex adaptive system. ONR seeks to better understand possible ways to understand trade-offs between human performance-related key cost elements and technology choices. ONR would like to better understand complex adaptive systems that are sensitive to both internal and external drivers such as social-economic, political and system changes. - 3Decision Flow Modeling Tools: ONR seeks information on available and potential technologies that can model the impact ramifications of manpower decisions on a system -wide capabilities from both a top-down and bottom-up process. By maximizing key information and data flows, this system would allow decision makers to model dynamic flow, secondary changes, and resulting outputs at both the micro and macro level. Common Operating Picture: ONR seeks information, concepts, ideas and currently available and potential technologies that provide an interactive visualization tool for users to tailor their system models and expresses the output of complex calculations in a client centric manner.