A Method For Quantifying Manpower, Personnel, Training, And Education (Mpt and E) Impacts On Command And Control (C2) Resilience In Maritime Operations Centers
Abstract
This thesis develops a logic for objectively measuring the required effort that the staff of a maritime headquarters and its embedded maritime operations center must exert to accomplish tasks within a time period. It also provides a way to gain insights into the relative quality of work and risk assumed by them to do so, given the current manning and experience levels of its staff members. We focus on a method for considering staff activities--conducted under the constraints of limited resources by a versatile workforce--as a project scheduling problem, and we expand previous project scheduling methods to include the simultaneous consideration of multiple projects with limited resources. We develop a simulation-based tool, called the Dynamic Resource Allocation Analysis Simulation Tool Kit (DRAASTK), that incorporates manager-defined preferences and priority rules to provide task-resource parings, a list of delays and the resources responsible, and resource utilization information. We use these outputs to quantify the risk to mission accomplishment that is accepted when staff levels, training, and equipment are underfunded, and articulate a more realistic picture for the level of effort a staff must exert to support the commander's command and control (C2) mission.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 17, 2020
- Accession Number
- AD1073591
Entities
People
- Shane L. Beavers
Organizations
- Naval Postgraduate School