An Analytical Model for Forecasting Navy Officer Career Paths

Abstract

A mathematical model, using semi Markov Processes, is suggested for the career paths of military officers. The model consists of a rectangular array of nodes with rows representing activity types and columns representing successive tours. Thus each billet of an officer is described by an activity type and a tour number. The duration of such a billet, called a tourlength, is considered fixed, given the activity type and the tour number. Transitions from activities in one tour to activities in the next tour are governed by distinct transition probability matrices. A formula is developed for the expected number of personnel occupying any activity in any tour sometime in the future, given the current numbers of occupants (incumbents) in all billet types and the planned numbers of accessions in the future. Finally, an example is presented that is applicable to the Surface Warfare Officer Community of the Navy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1988
Accession Number
ADA199770

Entities

People

  • Paul R. Milch

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • California
  • Computational Science
  • Computers
  • Industrial Engineering
  • Marine Corps
  • Markov Chains
  • Markov Processes
  • Mathematical Models
  • Naval Operations
  • Navy
  • Operations Research
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Stochastic Processes
  • Surface Warfare
  • United States
  • Warfare

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  • Mathematical Modeling and Probability Theory.
  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.
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