The Naval Reserve Center Facility Management System

Abstract

The Navy has a viable facility management system with which it manages over 220 Reserve Centers. However, Reserve Centers have significant real world problems that result in deviations from optimum facility management practices. In turn, the results of these problems affect other organizations and commands. Is the Naval Reserve Center facility management system healthy? Frustrations with the facility management system are expressed at all organizations and command levels. Exactly what and how extensive are the difficulties? Two issues, the facility management system and facility physical plant problems, are the focus of this study. The Naval Reserve mission is not facility management. Facilities are not ships or training and will never receive the same resource levels. Although facility problems rarely stop the mission, they may interfere with it. Facilities are not the most important thing for a Reserve Center Commanding Officer (Reserve Center CO) to worry about, but they can be a source of significant trouble at times -- usually the wrong times. This study will look at the Reserve Center maintenance and repair management system by conducting a Reserve Center-wide survey and extensive interviews and analyzing perceived problems. The structure of the thesis will be as follows. Chapter 2 will define the objectives and boundaries of this study. Chapter 3 will provide background material, as well as attempt to describe the Reserve Center facility management system as it currently exists. Chapter 4 will outline the research methodology used. The data gathered in interviews and questionnaires concerning the perceptions of the Reserve Center system participants will be presented in Chapter 5 and analyzed in Chapter 6. Finally, Conclusions and Recommendations will be given in Chapter 7.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA260165

Entities

People

  • Michael E. Durant

Organizations

  • University of Texas at Austin

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Active Duty
  • Business Administration
  • Civil Engineering
  • Contract Administration
  • Contracts
  • Cost Estimates
  • Data Analysis
  • Databases
  • Engineering
  • Engineers
  • Maintenance
  • Maintenance Management
  • Management Personnel
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Training

Readers

  • Logistics and Supply Chain Management.
  • Maritime and Naval Warfare Studies
  • Military Mobilization and Reserve Forces Studies.