The Development of the Army's Enlisted Personnel Allocation System
Abstract
The U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences ARI is undertaking a comprehensive research program to improve the selection, classification, and allocation of Army personnel. A key part of this program is the Enlisted Personnel Allocation System (EPAS), which is being developed by ARI with the support of the General Research Corporation. EPAS will improve personnel performance by achieving a better match between the Army's requirement and the capabilities of the people applying for service. This report discusses the development of the EPAS version for allocation nonprior service accessions to training for their military occupational specialties (MOSs). (Other versions will allocate reenlistees, retrainees, reclassifications, and prior service accessions.) The system described is a prototype of the final EPAS. It contains all the features but has less detail. This system is particularly useful for performing policy analysis and selection and classification experiments. EPAS makes extensive use of operations research techniques. It comprises modules that perform forecasting of nonprior service accessions, large-scale network optimization of assignments to MOS, and policy specifying to aid the recruiter and application in their final selection of an MOS. Keywords: Man-job-match; Forecasting; Network optimization; Assignment problems; Optimization; Microcomputer applications. Policy specifying; Request.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 1984
- Accession Number
- ADA178730
Entities
People
- David A. Smyre
- David W. Moore
- Edward J. Schmitz
- Elizabeth A. Gilmore
- Frank P. Konieczny
- George N. Brown
- Gerald E. Paul
- Murray J Randall
- Peter B. Mcwhite
- Roy D. Nord