Vehicle Maintenance Manpower Requirements for U.S. Army Installation Directorates of Engineering and Housing Based on Air Force, Navy, and Army Reserves' Staffing Techniques.
Abstract
An Army investigation of staffing techniques has been mandated by Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel Initiative MS3. However, the study will not address staffing methods for vehicle maintenance sections until the early 1990s. To help fill the need for specific guidance in the interim, this report compares staffing techniques used by the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, and the U.S. Army Reserves with guidance for staffing U.S. Army installation Directorate of Engineering and Housing (DEH) vehicle maintenance activities. To make comparisons, manpower requirements data totaling two megabytes of information from 28 U.S. Army Forces Command (FORSCOM) and U.S. Army Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) installations were collected and analyzed. Some adjustment factors were developed for DEH shops that perform levels of maintenance different from those of the other organizations. Results show that authorized Army staffing for the DEH vehicle maintenance shops is 43 percent of the authorized Air Force staffing and 130 percent of the authorized Army Reserves staffing; in contrast, the actual Army staffing is 39 percent of the actual Air Force staffing and 127 percent of the actual Army Reserves staffing. A comparison with the Navy technique, which requires estimates of mileage and operating hours, was not possible since these data were missing too often from the information collected. Keywords: Vehicles, Maintenance personnel, Manpower.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1986
- Accession Number
- ADA172181
Entities
People
- Kaan R. Aytogu
- Patrick J. Tanner
Organizations
- Construction Engineering Research Laboratory