R&D in Support of DOD Enlistment, Testing and Evaluation

Abstract

The Department of Defense Human Resources Activity (DHRA) is a DoD-wide Field Activity chartered to support the Under Secretary of Defense for Personnel and Readiness (USD (P&R)). This PE includes application of R&D to expedite prototype development and mission support efforts to sustain and/or modernize operations required for general RDT&E. Project 1: Joint Service Training & Readiness System Development. The Joint Service programs were established by the Secretary of Defense to improve the training and readiness of the Active and Reserve Components. This project expedites the prototype development of new training and readiness technologies and Joint Service Training and Readiness systems, which improve training and readiness effectiveness and enhance military forces’ performance. It also facilitates the sharing of training and readiness information, while allowing for the transfer of emerging and innovative technologies among the Services and the private sector. Efforts have included: development of mission essential tasks; design, development, and implementation of performance metrics, data, and methodologies for the Joint Assessment and Enabling Capability to guide Training Transformation and support the Department’s balanced scorecard and Defense Readiness Reporting System; identified and defined joint urban training requirements identified methods to conduct effective joint training and determined best means to develop simulations, military construction, and other urban training facilities that meet Service, joint, and fiscal demands and requirements; developed joint training regimen requirements and investments ranging from the joint strategic level down to the joint tactical level for joint asymmetric warfare; and developed a joint stability and support operations training roadmap and investment plan for operations other than war including peace enforcement, peacekeeping, and humanitarian assistance. Project 2: The Defense Training Resources Analysis. This project supports DHRA and DoD training managers (OSD, Joint Staff, Unified Commands, and the Services) in promoting more efficient and effective use of training resources, increasing the effectiveness of military training, and enhancing the readiness and performance of the military forces. Projects analyze the contributions to readiness of various training techniques and programs and use the results to expedite new training concepts and procedures that increase unit effectiveness or decrease costs. Emphasis is placed on developing analytical tools and systematic methodologies to improve training resource allocations. Project 3: DoD Enlistment Processing and Testing. The project administers testing programs, which enable the Armed Services to select highly qualified military recruits. The DoD uses a single test, the Armed Services Vocational Aptitude Battery (ASVAB), to determine eligibility of military applicants and to report recruit quality data to Congress. High quality recruits are obtained from administering the ASVAB annually to approximately 600,000 applicants for Military Service as part of the DoD Enlistment Testing program, and to 1 million students in the DoD Student Testing program. Each Service also uses ASVAB test forms developed in this program as part of their in-service testing programs. New ASVAB test forms and related support materials are implemented approximately every four years. This allows DoD to make measurement improvements as well as decrease the likelihood of test compromise. Ongoing RDT&E efforts include development and evaluation of procedures which (1) reduce or eliminate threats to the validity of the ASVAB test scores generated; (2) improve the efficiency of the test development, calibration, and validation process; and (3) improve selection and classification decisions made by each Service through more effective use of test score information. In addition, periodic assessments are required to provide DoD manpower planners and Congress with information on aptitude trends in the population from which recruits are drawn. Project 4: The Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) administers the Federal responsibilities of the Secretary of Defense, as specified in the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act of 1986 which covers more than six million potential voters. FVAP informs and educates U.S. citizens around the world of their right to vote, fosters voting participation and protects the integrity of the electoral process at the Federal, State and local levels. The Election Assistance Commission is developing electronic absentee voting guidelines in conjunction with the National Institute of Standards and Technology. RDT&E funding will support the development of online tools to provide Voter Assistance Officer (VAO) training and to develop a dynamic public web-site to facilitate internet-based voter registration, ballot delivery and voting system for use in the first general election after the release of guidelines. Since July 2009, FVAP, EAC and NIST have been developing those guidelines. Full public engagement with the computer science, military and overseas voting advocacy, and voting system development communities is crucial to designing electronic absentee voting systems which will be accepted as providing the same level of ballot access, security, privacy, and accountability as the current absentee voting systems provided military and overseas voters. Project 5: Civilian HR automation enhancements planned for FY 2009 and FY 2010 are focused on software development to support the Department’s civilian workforce, including readiness requirements for the development of automation for an expeditionary civilian workforce; an SES-focused performance management system; development of interfaces with the Defense Civilian Personnel Data System (DCPDS) and other civilian HR systems to fully expand the Enterprise Staffing Solution; development of DCPDS interfaces with Office of Personnel Management (OPM) initiative mandates for HR Line of Business (LoB), electronic Official Personnel Folder, Retirement Systems Modernization implementation, and HR Line of Business. DoD is one of five designated Shared Service Centers in the federal government focused on providing standard services across agency lines, gaining potential significant business and cost-saving benefits. DoD is considered a leader in this initiative. Continues the conversion of employees back to other personnel systems as mandated in NDAA 2010 and designs new flexibilities to include, but not limited to the establishment of policies and procedures for a new Performance Management System, a redesigned hiring process adhering to veterans’ preference requirements, a “Department of Defense Civilian Workforce Incentive fund”, and a Mandatory Training and Retraining Program for Supervisors. DCPDS is the Department’s enterprise civilian HR system that has provided the savings originally projected in the achievement of full operational capability in 2002 and which has continued to operate as the DoD system serving over 800,000 employee records. Additional initiatives to sustain the Department’s lead in automated systems to include, expansion of employee self service functionality, and systems to support civilian HR requirements of the intelligence and National Guard communities. All enhancements will support the Department’s focus on the further consolidation of civilian HR operations to a single operational site, with linkage to Component operations worldwide. Project 6: The integrated DoD SAPR Data Collection and Reporting System (Defense Sexual Assault Incident Database (DSAID)) must accommodate a variety of uses, including the tracking of sexual assault victim support services, support SAPR program administration, program reporting requirements, and data analysis. In order to facilitate analysis at the OSD level, the System should be able to easily export data for analysis in computerized statistical applications, such as Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS). Service field-level users may use the system to track support to victims of sexual assault throughout the lifecycle of that support requirement and to facilitate sexual assault case transfer between SARCs and Services. Service headquarters-level users will use the system to support program planning, analysis, and management. DoD SAPR Office (SAPRO) users and Service headquarters-level users will access the system to produce mandated and requested reports, monitor program effectiveness and support cohort and trend analysis. The integrated DoD SAPR Data Collection and Reporting System will support SAPR programs for all active duty and Reserve personnel, including National Guard (NG) Service members when on active duty or when performing active service and inactive duty training (as defined in Section (101)(d)(3) of Chapter 47 of title 10, United States Code) with the ability to expand to cover other DoD personnel as required. Additionally, system implementation at the state level will provide a new capability to manage SAPR programs for National Guard personnel under Title 32 USC. Implementation of this capability would be based on a state NG structure grouped according to state and subdivided into sexual assaults from the separate Army and Air National Guard.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2012
• Source ID: 0605803SE_6_0400_PB_2012
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2011 reflects initial RDT&E funding to support the development of online tools to provide Voter Assistance Officer (VAO) training and to develop a dynamic public web-site to facilitate internet-based voter registration, ballot delivery and voting system for use in the first general election after the release of guidelines.
• Service Agency Name: DoD Human Resources Activity

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• Defense Human Resources Activity

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• Biomedical
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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Accidents
• Business Administration
• Casualties
• Civilian Personnel
• Databases
• Department Of Defense
• Human Resources
• Knowledge Management
• Lessons Learned
• Management Personnel
• Military Training
• National Guard
• Organizational Structure
• Personnel Management
• Test And Evaluation
• Unified Combatant Commands
• Websites

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• Defense Acquisition Program Management
• Educational Psychology
• Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.

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