Recruitment Early Warning System. Phase II. A Plan for Implementing the Accession Contingency Planning Process.
Abstract
The purpose of the Accession Contingency Planning Process (ACPP) is to enhance the DoD's capability to adjust recruiting and advertising resources to meet changes in recruiting conditions that occur during the Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS) cycle. A previous study evaluated the Services' recruiting experiences from 1973 through 1984. It found that there were periods with more resources than were needed and periods with inadequate resources. These conditions resulted primarily from changes in recruiting conditions that occurred during the PPBS cycle. The study found that 24 to 36 monthhs elapsed between the time a change in recruiting conditions occurred in the filed and the time that resource adjustments reached the field to meet that change. By this time, conditions were changing again. The present report developed a set of procedures that would reduce the delays found in Phase I. The ACPP would formalize procedures that now exist informally. The contingency planning and resource adjustments that have been developed in the 1980s seem to be working rather well, but they are based on personal relationships among the current incumbents. The ACPP proposes to formalize these procedures and incorporate them into DoD's Planning, Programming, and Budgeting System (PPBS). The ACPP would employ the Recruitment Early Warning System to reduce the time required to recognize changes in recruiting conditions (reduce recognition delay) and would establish procedures to accelerate needed resource adjustments (reduce response lag).
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 1985
- Accession Number
- ADA166566
Entities
People
- Richard Hunter