U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Manpower Information System: An Integrated Approach to Manpower Management.

摘要

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE) provides engineering and construction management services for both military and civil works programs. In FY93, the cost of those programs exceeded $10 billion and their implementation required more than a 40,000-person work force. Managing this work force is an important part of USACE program execution. Those work force management processes are periodically reviewed to ensure that USACE is getting the most for its manpower dollars. In this report, we recommended the development of a manpower information system that uses the current communication capabilities of the USACE wide-area network and meets the following key requirements: First, USACE's leaders expressed the need for a system that is easy to learn and use, easy to implement in the field, and can be used in the field as a planning and management tool. Second, the system should be able to estimate the manpower required to execute USACE's programs, support the allocation process, provide information in useful ways, track utilization information, support 'what if' analysis, and draw upon various sources of data. Third, the system should provide a unified, standardized, relational data base from which consistent standard and ad hoc reports can be generated from the same essential information. Finally, USACE must gain the functional capabilities-such as decision support, executive information retrieval, and geographic information displays-that existing manpower systems lack.