Officer Street-to-Fleet Database: Expanding Capabilities

摘要

Officer Street-to-Fleet Database: Expanding Capabilities is a follow- on study sponsored by N81. In the earlier study, the sponsor asked us to develop a database for officers that merged training files with personnel files in order to calculate time-to-train to first assignment (TTT) metrics for officer communities. The result was the beginning of the Officer Street-to-Fleet (OSTF) database. In this study, we calculated TTT metrics for pilots and NFOs by specific training pipeline, identified some areas of concern for NFO attrition, extended our TTT calculations to the large restricted line (RL) communities, and expanded the database to include officer accessions from FY 1993 to FY 2002. (U) We found that average TTT fell for all aviation training pipelines since FY 1993 but that attrition rose slightly for most pipelines over the same period. In particular helicopter training attrition rose substantially for the FY 1996 and FY 1997 accession cohorts. We also found that the increase in NFO attrition is related to an increase in the number of OCS accessions, historically an accession source with high attrition rates. Finally, we found recent decreases in average TTT in RL communities.