The Driver Concept for Projecting Resource Requirements: Two Pilot Tests
Abstract
Entities, whose values depend on Army policy and which drive the workload and resource requirements of Army organizations, are analyzed for the Materiel Management (MM) and Maintenance (MS) Directorates of CERCOM and TARCOM. These drivers, which are typically classes of entities such as major items, secondary items, requisitions, product improvement programs, and fielded weapon systems, vary from year to year. Man years and dollars necessary to perform functions related to the 'management' of these drivers, if such resources had been and are rationally allocated, should vary in a similar fashion. Forecasting changes in driver values over future years should allow corresponding forecasts in resource requirements to be made. The results of testing these driver concepts on the historical data bases of the four above-mentioned directorates produced mixed results. The CERCOM MS analysis produced good statistical results in the area investigated (pre-issue development). The TARCOM MS results were poor in a historical statistical sense. In the two MM directorates, the analysis indicated some functional areas where the historical trends fulfilled the postulated relations and other areas where the historical resources expended did not track the related driver values. Data availability was generally easier in the MM area.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Mar 01, 1980
- Accession Number
- ADA086625
Entities
People
- Donald A. Orr