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: Identity Credential Management (ICM). The Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) executes DHRA’s responsibility to provide a central source of identification and authorization of people throughout their affiliation with DoD for identity protection, security, and entitlements and benefits verification. This funding will support the evaluation and testing of emerging technologies that will develop more robust and secure capabilities for the Department’s ICM program. ICM will also research capabilities such as improved self-service solutions, and micro-services that will enable more efficient credential delivery. Project 2: Office of People Analytics (OPA) Testing and Assessment Division 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 students (high school and post-secondary) 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 over 750,000 students in the ASVAB career exploration program. Each Service also uses ASVAB test forms developed in this program as part of their in-service testing programs. This allows DoD to make measurement improvements as well as decreasing 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 3: This program will transfer to Personnel Accountability and Security program as of FY 2022. The Personnel Accountability (PA) program is comprised of several systems undergoing development and testing, including the Synchronized Pre-deployment Operational Tracker Enterprise Suite (SPOT-ES) and) Suite of Systems. The PA family of systems represents end-to-end tracking, reconciliation and reporting of DoD personnel location and movements, to include military, DoD affiliated civilians, DoD, DoS and USAID contractors and U.S. citizens. This data includes DoD travel, contracts, and contractor personnel tracking in support of military operations, contingencies, military readiness, reporting of locations at the unit and person level, accountability of DoD personnel during (and after) natural or man-made disasters and accountability and visibility of noncombatant evacuees. This program will transfer to Personnel Accountability and Security program as of FY 2022. Project 4: Personnel Security Assurance (PSA). The Defense Information System for Security (DISS) program transferred to Defense Counterintelligence Security Agency (DCSA) beginning in FY 2021. Project 5: The Federal Voting Assistance Program (FVAP) administers many of the federal responsibilities of the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA) of 1986 and other federal military voter registration and assistance laws. FVAP works to ensure Service members, their eligible family members and overseas citizens are aware of their right to vote and have the tools and resources to successfully do so – from anywhere in the world. FVAP works to increase the level of awareness of available DoD voting assistance resources among Active Duty Members, in order to increase the likelihood of returning their absentee ballots. FVAP conducts voting research projects with States, local election jurisdictions and private entities to assist UOCAVA voters to register to vote and submit their absentee ballot and improve federal, State and local election processes and procedures. Project 6: Enterprise Data Management (EDS) is addressing two critical projects in FY 2022: 1) JOM and 2) EDDIE. The Joint Officer Management (JOM) modernization initiative supports improvements in the Joint Manpower Information System’s (JMIS) automation, reliability, accuracy, and system interoperability to enable the Department to more effectively comply with Title 10 management requirements of Joint Duty Officers in the Active and Reserve forces, and improve the sight picture of joint officer personnel capabilities and readiness for the SECDEF and the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (CJCS). JMIS is the DoD’s sole IT system to inform the SECDEF and CJCS on their operational joint personnel officer readiness capability. The system is used to track joint duty billets and the officers assigned to them. It also tracks joint duty experiences, education, training, and qualifications for facilitation of joint duty officer assignments and promotions. The legacy system was built in the 1990’s and is no longer agile enough to support today’s mission. This modernization project will bring JOM into the 21st century and address critical cybersecurity, legislative, and policy compliance issues. The Enterprise Data to Decisions Information Environment (EDDIE) introduces a streamlined way to provide person-based “data as a service” and “analytics as a service” to all of DoD and other Federal Agencies and will continue to expand DHRA data asset holding within the Advana platform. It enables and improves all types of analytics from standard reporting to more emergent and embedded predictive/prescriptive analytics. EDDIE will assist decision makers in forming relevant questions, retrieving pertinent information, and informing policy and program changes. Project 7: Defense Sexual Assault Incident Database (DSAID). DSAID serves as the Department’s only centralized, case-level database for the collection and maintenance of information regarding sexual assaults involving Service members, via both Unrestricted and Restricted Reporting options. Also, DSAID accommodates a variety of uses, including the tracking of sexual assault victim support services, as well as supporting sexual assault prevention and response (SAPR) program administration, congressional reporting requirements, and data analysis. DSAID will also facilitate reports to Congress on claims of retaliation in connection with an Unrestricted Report of sexual assault made by or against a member of the Armed Forces, and serve as a repository for documents necessary for future victim support. Service Sexual Assault Response Coordinators (SARCs) use the system to track support to victims of sexual assault throughout the lifecycle of support requirements that facilitate sexual assault case transfer between SARCs and Services. The DoD SAPR Office and Service headquarters-level users access the system as a management tool for statistical analysis, tracking, congressional and ad-hoc reporting, evaluating program effectiveness, conducting research, and case and business management. The system can easily export data for analysis in statistical applications, such as Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) to facilitate analysis at the DoD-level. DSAID includes safeguards to shield personally identifiable information (PII) from unauthorized disclosure and stringent user access control in place. Project 8: Personnel Accountability and Security (PAS) is a new program that subsumes the Personnel Accountability (PA) program with the remaining Personnel Security Assurance (PSA) program. The Personnel Accountability and Security (PAS) program is comprised of several systems undergoing development and testing, including: Synchronized Pre-Deployment Operational Tracker Enterprise Suite (SPOT-ES). The PA family of systems represents end-to-end tracking, reconciliation and reporting of DoD personnel location and movements, to include military, DoD affiliated civilians, DoD, DoS and USAID contractors and U.S. citizens. This data includes DoD travel, contracts, and contractor personnel tracking in support of military operations, contingencies, military readiness, reporting of locations at the unit and person level, accountability of DoD personnel during (and after) natural or man-made disasters and accountability and visibility of noncombatant evacuees. Project 10: Enterprise Human Resources (HR) Information Systems (EHRIS) funding transferred to Identity Credential Access Management (ICAM) beginning in FY 2021. EHRIS is comprised of the Defense Civilian Personnel Data System (DCPDS), Civilian HR IT Managed Services, Civilian HR IT Enterprise Services, and Civilian HR IT Program Planning and Management. In compliance with a 2018 Reform Management Group decision, the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC) began migrating the Human Resources Core and Performance Management (PM/Goal Management) capabilities onto a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2022
• Source ID: 0605803SE_6_0400_PB_2022
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2022 adjusted for under execution, inflation changes, and restoral of FVAP.
• Service Agency Name: DoD Human Resources Activity

Entities

Organizations

• Defense Human Resources Activity

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Accuracy
• Acquisition
• Active Duty
• Civilian Personnel
• Data Analysis
• Data Centers
• Department Of Defense
• Education
• Emerging Technology
• Human Resources
• Identification Systems
• Information Systems
• Military Operations
• Military Personnel
• Officer Personnel
• Sexual Assault
• Social Sciences

Readers

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

Technology Areas

• Cyber