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Continuous management Attention Needed for Army To Improve
Combat Unit Personnel Requirements. FPCD-78-61; B-133370.
September 5, 1978. 5 pp. + appendix (19 pp.).
Report to Rep. melvin Frice. Chairman, House Colzittee on Armed
Services; Sen. John C. Stennis# Chairsany Sanate Committee on
Ara .1 Services; by Blmer B. Staats, Comptroller General.
Issue Area: Federal Personnel management and Compensation: Work
Force Planning (313).
Contact: Federal Personnel and Compensation Div.
Budget Function: Natioal Defense: Department of Defense -
rilt'try (except procurement & contracts) 4051).
Organization Conwerned: Departaent of the Army; Department of
Defense.
Congressional Relevance: House Committee on Armed Services;
Senate Committee on Armed Services. Rep. Nelvin Price; Sen.
Jchn C. Stennis.
GAO reports and Army studies during the past 14 years
have shown widespread, serious weaknesses in the Aruy's system
for determining personnel requirements for comkat units. She
Army's manpower Authorization Criteria provides criteria for
determining the staff needed for combat functions which heve
aeasurable vorkloads. Errors in estimating either workload or
soldiers' available vorktime can have a major impact of the
number of soldiers available. Findings/Conclusions: In the 15
years zince the inception of hanpower Authorization Criteria,
the Army has not solved its problem of determining and
justifying manpower requirements. Shortcomings in methods for
estimating both workload and available worktime used in the
formula make the results unreliable. A march 1978 proposal
suggested new methods to model personnel requirements under
varying wartime and peacetime conditions. This proposal provides
an organized approach fer improving the detersination of
maintenance personnel requirements and recognizes the need for
an orderly* concerted, and long-range improvement effort. When
complete, it should prcvide a basis to account for the
differences between wartime and peacetime requirements and
should result in more efficient resource allocation, large scale
economies, and improved readiness. Recommendations: The Armed
Services Ccamittees should direct the Secretary of the Army to
establish a comprehensive program for developing, implementing,
and operating a reliable system to determine personnel
requirements for combat units. The program should identify the
system's cbjectives and include army funding, organizations,
personnel, and other resources needed to achieve the objectives.
The Committees should direct the Secretary of Defe-se to see
that the improvement program is complete, credible, and
supported by viable funding and staffing and that the Army's
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