The Managed Readiness Simulator: A force readiness model

Scales,; Okazawa,; Ormrod,

doi:10.1109/wsc.2011.6147960

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“…Punctul central în realizarea unui scenariu pentru jocurile de război sau exercițiile de instruire este relația dintre lumea fizică și utilizarea unei lumi virtuale, bazată pe desfășurarea instruirii operaționale umane. Implementarea unui program versatil, care să permită simularea rapidă a unei game vaste de scenarii pentru a prognoza amploarea la care resursele unei structuri sunt disponibile pentru a îndeplini cerințe, a reprezentat un avantaj în conceptul de modelare și simulare a nivelului de pregătire al forțelor 13 .…”

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Impactul Tehnologiei Asupra Procesului De Planificare Și Luare a Deciziei

Gimiga¹

2021

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Planificarea sau previziunea, în calitate de funcție a managementului, are un rol deosebit în domeniul militar, asociat cu dezvoltarea noilor tehnologii, deoarece oferă posibilitatea expunerii unor cursuri de acțiune posibile și ajută în luarea deciziei de către un lider militar. O planificare judicioasă, o expunere corectă a resurselor și a modului lor de întrebuințare, stabilirea obiectivelor și a posibilităților de îndeplinire a acestora sunt câteva aspecte care contribuie la desăvârșirea procesului decizional și care implică necesitatea tehnologiilor moderne aplicate. În contextul actual, posibilitatea oferită de modelarea și simularea acțiunilor militare a dezvoltat și modalitățile de obținere a unei decizii eficiente prin folosirea unor sisteme de calcul și prin identificarea diferitelor cursuri de acțiune, cunoscând toți factorii de risc. Toate modificările suferite de echipamentele și sistemele tehnologice militare au forțat apariția unor noi doctrine, unor restructurări și a unor achiziții absolut esențiale pentru a asigura scopul organizației militare, siguranța națională și alianțele internaționale bazate pe menținerea păcii. În ceea ce privește sistemul militar, dezvoltarea noilor tehnologii și atributul procesului decizional contribuie la apariția și utilizarea „munițiilor inteligente”, care se bazează, în principal, pe circulația eficientă a informației, pe operarea sistematizată și gestionarea resurselor într-un mod oportun

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Impactul Tehnologiei Asupra Procesului De Planificare Și Luare a Deciziei

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2021

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“…More often than not, work in this area views force sustainment from the perspective of readiness measurement or manpower requirements. There is a wide variety of approaches to measuring readiness (Harrison, 2014;Freeman et al, 2014;Barzily et al, 1979;Scales et al, 2011). Our review of the literature on personnel modeling is summarized in Table III.…”

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Deployment-to-dwell metrics and supply-based force sustainment

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Steeger

2018

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Purpose-In the present fast-paced and globalized age of war, special operations forces have a comparative advantage over conventional forces because of their small, highly-skilled units. Largely because of these characteristics, special operations forces spend a disproportionate amount of time deployed. The amount of time spent deployed affects service member's quality of life and their level of preparedness for the full spectrum of military operations. In this paper, the authors ask the following question: How many force packages are required to sustain a deployed force package, while maintaining predetermined combatreadiness and quality-of-life standards? Design/methodology/approach-The authors begin by developing standardized deployment-to-dwell metrics to assess the effects of deployments on service members' quality of life and combat readiness. Next, they model deployment cycles using continuous time Markov chains and derive closed-form equations that relate the amount of time spent deployed versus at home station, rotation length, transition time and the total force size. Findings-The expressions yield the total force size required to sustain a deployed capability. Originality/value-Finally, the authors apply the method to the US Air Force Special Operations Command. This research has important implications for the force-structure logistics of any military force.

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“…Many different workforce models have been developed by researchers; we mention just three: Gass (1991), Hall (2009), Scales et al (2011). Each has different levels of fidelity and captures different aspects of interest.…”

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Measures to analyse sustainability in military workforce structures

2021

MODSIM2021, 24th International Congress on Modelling and Simulation.

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For defence services to provide effective capability, it is important that enough suitably qualified personnel are available at the right times. Essential to this, is a workforce structure that sustainably meets the personnel requirement. Specifically, an adequate number of positions in the different ranks is needed, as well as sufficient promotions and recruitment to sustain those positions over time, given the constraints on the workforce. In this paper, we mathematically explore the relationship between these parameters, describe how to determine whether a workforce structure is sustainable or not, and detail what changes may need to be made to achieve a healthy structure.Here, sustainability means that the requirement profile -the number of positions in each rank at each time -can be achieved without excesses or shortfalls of personnel. We critique a simple linear programming (LP) optimisation formulation that was applied to Royal Australian Navy (RAN) test problems, and the unexpected results that it produced. In particular, it resulted in large oversupplies in lower ranks early in a testing period of 20 years. By using a cost function that penalised oversupply and undersupply with different weightings, we found that such oversupplies were necessary in order to avoid significant shortfalls of personnel in higher ranks and later years. This provided the motivation for the main contribution of this paper: an exploration of why the oversupply was necessary and equations that could assist workforce planners to quantify the magnitude of this oversupply. This involved assessing how specific factors play a role in the sustainability of workforce structures. Backpropagation of required numbers of personnel through the ranks provided the necessary number of promotions at each rank and time in order to achieve that requirement. We refer to this number of promotions as the Required Production Number (RPN). An analysis of the distribution of time in rank permits calculation of how many promotion-eligible personnel could be produced at each rank and time. We refer to this number of producible personnel as the Suppliable Production Number (SPN).When the RPN exceeds the SPN, one of two functionally equivalent situations has to happen to avoid future shortfalls in other ranks as predicted by the model: oversupplying a rank or increasing the requirement of a rank. We quantify the extent to which the requirement needs to be increased. Conversely, when the RPN is less than the SPN, the requirement can be met without excesses or shortfalls of personnel, but personnel will spend longer in a rank before promotion. Calculations to quantify the expected time to promotion are also described. This is an important consideration as personnel waiting too long for promotion may result in decreased morale and an increase in personnel leaving the workforce.These simple and practical measures allow workforce planners to draw insights into their workforce structure. In particular, they can determine whether and why the requirement in particu...

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The Managed Readiness Simulator: A force readiness model

Cited by 7 publications

References 7 publications

Impactul Tehnologiei Asupra Procesului De Planificare Și Luare a Deciziei

Impactul Tehnologiei Asupra Procesului De Planificare Și Luare a Deciziei

Deployment-to-dwell metrics and supply-based force sustainment

Measures to analyse sustainability in military workforce structures

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