Automating the Exchange of Military Personnel Data among Selected Army Organizations. Phase 1. Scope and Characteristics of the Army Personnel Data Systems Interface

摘要

Section 1 outlines the background of the project, and discusses the conceptual difficulties inherent in scoping out a problem so massive in relation to the project resources and time available. Section 2 delineates a number of data base management concepts which the researchers believe to represent a reasonable view of how the Army wishes to proceed in the development of plans for new information systems to meet future manpower management needs. Section 3 reviews the findings that the researchers have made during the course of their orientation visits to the various organizations enumerated previously, and identifies what seem to be the major obstacles that the Army will face as it attempts to make the transition from the present to the future. Section 4 summarizes the researchers' assessment of the overall management information systems problem as it now exists and discusses the issues which must be resolved before the Army can successfully proceed to upgrade its current personnel data systems. Section 5, which concludes the report, contains a set of appendices containing data collected during the course of the study.