Validate the Manning Model, Personnel and Training, and Human Performance Capabilities

The manning model development process starts with an analysis of the mission and required operational capabilities and projected operational environment along with the design and systems configuration. This establishes the basis for both the system operating stations that must be manned under various conditions, as well as the support manning needed. Regulations, policy constraints and applicable staffing standards are also applied. The manning analysis attempts to project the most manpower intensive scenario. For surface combatants this is at-sea, forward deployed in the littoral environment, with designated joint/allied/combined forces.

Independent workload analyses are conducted to determine the total workload, expressed in average man-hours per week, in the areas of operational, maintenance and own unit support manning. The data developed for the workload elements then become the source of workload for performing workload calculations to determine the number of individual billets required. The specific workload elements used are Operational Manning (OM), Planned Maintenance (PM), Corrective Maintenance (CM), Facilities Maintenance (FM), and Own Unit Support (OUS). Each of these terms is defined in TAB A. Figure 2 graphically depicts the process.

To determine manpower requirements, the workload requirements which had been allocated to human performance are assigned to the various personnel ratings in accordance with the rating and skill level requirements specified in the planned maintenance (PMS) cards and/or in accordance with the Navy rating qualifications manual. To calculate the number of billets required in each rating, the workload is mathematically divided by the number of hours representing the productive workweek available.

Billet requirements are minimized by selection of the minimum skill levels needed for the work and watch requirements and by cross-utilization. Work not requiring a specific skill is reallocated from billets with excess work to billets that are not fully utilized in accordance with CNO rules. Rounding of partial billets produced by the calculations is performed in accordance with staffing standards to produce whole billets.

After the minimum billet requirements are calculated, based on the allocated workload, the number is then compared to the requirements of other conditions and scenarios to determine the total billets needed to satisfy all manning requirements. The total number of personnel required for any one Condition of Readiness or evolution must be provided.

Future manning models need to provide an integrated system for development of a manpower requirements that can assimilate and retain data and provide appropriate support for a design from the beginning of concept formulation through to completion of system construction and delivery to the fleet. The system should interface with the front-end mission and function allocation model described earlier and be able to "grow" with progress of the design, adding detail with increasing levels of accuracy as design and configuration decisions are made. It should be able to aid the decision process with quick-response manning impact and cost assessments of alternative concepts and configurations. The system should produce a continuum of data accumulation and automated reports for feedback to the fleet and to other users of the MP&T process throughout development of the manning document, resulting in an end-product of sufficient quality to provide the information needed to make accurate, universally accepted training requirements and personnel assignment plans. Finally, the future manning model should document, in sufficient detail and in an easily interpreted form, the workload allocated to and within the system organization as well as the work required to be performed off the ship by support activities.