Comparable Skills for Contingency and Mobilization Planning,
Abstract
During the downsizing of the Defense Department resulting from the end of the Cold War, the Services have had to turn over many support jobs to Defense Department civilians and private contractors. Many of those civilian government employees, however, have a military reserve commitment and are sometimes deployed as a military member, not as a civilian employee. Contingency and mobilization manpower planners must back-fill vacant civilian positions, and finding these replacements is a very challenging process. The problem is intensified when planners try to satisfy military shortfalls by attempting to link specialties across the uniformed services since each service has its own occupational classification system. The USAF Armstrong Laboratory is currently conducting a research project to link occupations between civilian and military personnel and among military personnel across all the Services. The research is focused on three possible methods: (1) the use of occupational analysts to perform expert analysis of the specialties by reading job text descriptions and making linkages based on expert judgment, (2) the use of existing automated data bases to link each specialty description, and (3) applying the automated approach to a subset of occupations previously chosen by the Service. Once one or several methodologies is selected for validation, a series of analyses will be conducted to rate the reliability of the methodologies and the accuracy of the linkages. This concept paper will discuss the operational problem, the alternative methodologies that can be used to approach it, and the validation of the alternative methodologies. This paper will cover only the Air Force to Army military linkages, as these linkages are more pertinent to a possible move toward a unified occupational system.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1999
- Accession Number
- ADA363989
Entities
People
- Doris B. Black
- Jan Dorsett
- John W. Muirhead
Organizations
- Armstrong Laboratory