An Evaluation of Navy Unrestricted Line Officer Accession Programs,
Abstract
Officers in the unrestricted line are qualified to command at sea. Currently, 60% of Naval officers are in this community. The Navy has a number of alternative ways to secure such officers. These programs range in cost from the apparently expensive Naval Academy to the apparently inexpensive post-college programs, such as Officer Candidate School. The benefit to the Navy also varies with the program. If the expensive precommissioning programs also produce the greatest returns, it may be in the best interest of the Navy to maintain these programs. This paper examines a steady state linear programming model that solves for the optimal number of accessions from each source. Costs are minimized subject to the constraint that, for each Navy occupation, the required number of officers at each rank is met. The inputs to the model include the present value of costs, the initial distribution of officers across occupations, retention, and promotion success. The study finds that some of the expensive precommissioning programs enter the optimal solution.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 1977
- Accession Number
- ADA039048
Entities
People
- Samuel D. Kleinman
Organizations
- Center for Naval Analyses