Health Professions Officer Special Pay Study HPOSPS

Abstract

As a force management tool, Health Professions Officer (HPO) Special Pay (HPOSP) influences Soldiers career decisions. Although the Office of the Surgeon General (OTSG) manages the Planning, Programming, Budgeting, and Execution (PPBE) process for HPOSP, several stakeholders across the Headquarters, Department of the Army and Office of the Secretary of Defense also have authority over steps in the PPBE process. Late in the fiscal year of HPOSP execution, obligated funds may exceed available allocated funds both because disbursement errors compound through the year and because stakeholders did not come to consensus earlier in the programming process. The study team recommended three improvements to the PPBE process: incorporating measurable force sustainment into the programming process, formalizing a lag between HPO contract submission and execution (to identify obligated HPOSP earlier), and resolving HPOSP disbursements against the spend plan each month. The study team provided a tool in Microsoft Excel to support HPOSP Programming by measuring HPO force sustainment health and suggesting sustainment impact of each type of HPOSP.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 2014
Accession Number
ADA607967

Entities

People

  • Abram Gross
  • Lisa Hamp
  • Valentin Swegle

Organizations

  • Center for Army Analysis

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Business Administration
  • Computer Programming
  • Contracts
  • Department Of Defense
  • Department Of Veterans Affairs
  • Employment
  • Finance
  • Health Services
  • Management Personnel
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Medicine
  • Military Personnel
  • Payment
  • Personnel Management
  • Public Health
  • Spreadsheet Software

Fields of Study

  • Medicine

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  • Public Financial Management and Budgeting
  • Software Engineering.
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