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76th MORSS
United States Coast Guard Academy
10-12 June 2008
Composite Group D
Resources/Readiness/Training
WG 18: Strategic Deployment and Distribution
CHAIR: James T. Moore, Ph.D., Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT/ENS), (937) 255-3636, x4528, james.moore@afit.edu
CO-CHAIRS:
Jean M. Mahan, PhD, USTRANSCOM (Northrop Grumman), TCJ5-SC, (618) 229-4111, jean.mahan@hq.transcom.mil; Karyl Reckamp, USTRANSCOM J5-AS, DSN 779-1463, COML (618)229-1463, Karyl.Reckamp@ustranscom.mil; Alan W. Johnson, Ph.D., Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT/ENS), (937) 255-3636, x4703, Alan.Johnson@afit.edu; Pamela J. Roberts, USMC Combat Development Command, (703) 784-6015, Pamela.Roberts@usmc.mil; Thomas Burwell, Advanced Development Programs, Lockheed Martin Aeronautics Company; Marietta, Georgia, phone 770-494-9737, thomas.m.burwell@lmco.com; and, Trevor I. Laine, Maj, USAF, AMC/A9AM, 618-229-4296, Trevor.Laine-02@scott.af.mil
ADVISOR: David C. Frye, Ph.D., Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, (770) 494-6766, david.c.frye@lmco.com
The focus of the Strategic Deployment and Distribution working group (WG 18) is to share knowledge about modeling, simulation, and analyses (MS&A) of deployment and distribution systems and processes. Abstracts for this working group should focus on 1) examining state-of-the-art improvements to current deployment and distribution modeling, 2) developing new objects, families, and classes that represent mobility and transportation systems, 3) sharing new or changed doctrines, concepts of operation, missions, or fundamental assumptions regarding deployment and distribution processes, and 4) describing how defense transportation systems and processes are balancing the risks involved in facing an uncertain future. We encourage presentations of works in process as well as completed papers.
Analyses presented at this year’s MORSS in WG 18 should reflect the MS&A of people, equipment, infrastructure, operations, and processes in deployment and distribution systems. Each paper should cover some aspect of operations research analysis to include operational effectiveness, cost, risk, capability, and/or metrics useful for senior level decision making and policy guidance with interest to the wider mobility community. Mobility, transportation, and logistics factors should cover a spectrum of military operations from peacetime day-to-day support to contingency operations to global, concurrent major theater wars. In addition, the efforts of this working group will cover the end-to-end analysis of deployment and distribution requirements from fort to foxhole through a system of reception and staging areas, ports, assembly areas, onward movement, and integration into the battlefield. Such movement and distribution analyses include operations within the CONUS, on inter-theater legs between operational theaters, and for intra-theater movements within theaters. The warfighting time-domain analyses begin with initial intelligence reports and progress through flexible deterrence, initial deployment, halting, build-up, sustainment, employment, counter-attack, and culminate with redeployment efforts.
The overall goal of the Strategic Deployment and Distribution Working Group is to exchange ideas that promote quality, professionalism, integrity, state-of-the-art technologies, and timeliness in the conduct of operations research analyses that support senior level decision-making across a broad spectrum of deployment and distribution endeavors.
WG 19: Logistics (LOG), Reliability, and Maintainability (RAM)
CHAIR: Jamie Baer, 920-593-8952, baerj@genco.com
CO-CHAIRS: Tovey Bachman, 703-917-7361, tbachman@lmi.org; and, Matthew Aylward, 703-784-5989, Matthew.aylward.ctr@usmc.mil
ADVISOR: Sheilah Simberg, 410-278-5532, sheilah.simberg@us.army.mil
The 76th MORSS theme of “Expanding Analysis for a More Secure World” presents an opportunity for the operations research community to share analysis and findings in logistics, reliability, and maintainability as it pertains to defense and security. Working Group 19 provides an arena to discuss topics concerning logistics and the related analysis that is necessary to understand the impact to national security. Varying security levels can significantly impact logistics and the related issues of reliability and maintainability. Working Group 19 is a venue to communicate operations research techniques and different methods of quantitative analysis to solve Logistics, Reliability, and Maintainability problems.
Working Group 19 addresses LOG RAM initiatives related to joint programs, Homeland Security, the Department of Defense, Department of Homeland Security and the State Department. Topics include optimization, forecasting, simulation, and mathematical modeling associated with various LOG RAM topics such as life cycle planning and management, theater distribution, and material readiness. The scope of this group includes all operations ranging from CONUS to OCONUS and theater.
Global issues such as the Global War on Terrorism and catastrophes like Hurricane Katrina emphasize the need for continuing analysis of security topics that impact our countries interests and infrastructure. While the theme of Logistics, Reliability, and Maintainability makes up one part of the analysis needed to fully understand and manage national security, it is an important element. Working Group 19 welcomes any and all papers (in progress or completed) that can assist others in developing a better understanding of how logistics and security interact and affect the safety and success of U.S. military and civil response operations.
WG 20: Manpower and Personnel
CHAIR: LTC Mark Gorak, United States Military Entrance Processing Command, 847-688-3680 x7247, mark.gorak@mepcom.army.mil .
CO-CHAIR: LTC Scott Nestler, US Military Academy, 845-938-5168, scott.nestler@usma.edu
ADVISOR : LTC Rod Roederer, U.S. Military Academy, 845-938-4753, rodney.roederer@usma.edu
The individual and collective talents, skills and capabilities of the total force of active duty, reserve, civilian and contractor personnel are required to accomplish the mission and goals of the Department of Defense. To succeed in an increasingly challenging environment, decision makers depend on a sophisticated human resource management system to recruit, train, assign, distribute, motivate, care for, evaluate, retain and separate personnel. Integral to this success is the analytical support that the manpower and personnel research community brings to bear on the toughest people problems facing our military and civilian leaders.
In keeping with the theme of the 76th MORSS, “Expanding Analysis for a More Secure World,” the Manpower and Personnel working group seeks to embrace new technologies and research ideas from both traditional and non-traditional sources of manpower and personnel analysis. Some non-traditional technologies and research will be directly applicable to manpower and personnel issues, while others will need to be massaged. However, imagine the boost to the analytical power that could be realized by involving new communities in this important analytical area. We are seeking individuals who innovatively address these challenges to share high quality presentations that describe their work. Presentations should be rigorous in content and address requirements determination, manpower planning, recruiting, screening and personnel selection, measurement of personnel readiness, attrition and retention, compensation and compensation reform, assignments and distribution, performance evaluation, and other manpower and personnel issues. To generate discussion and share ideas, presenters seeking input on work in progress, techniques currently under development, and completed analyses/papers are encouraged to submit abstracts to the working group chair/co-chairs or to the MORS office.
WG 21: Readiness
CHAIR: COL Joseph F. Adams, OUSD (Personnel and Readiness), (703) 693-5584, Joseph.Adams@osd.mil
CO-CHAIRS: F. Michael Slay, LMI, (703) 617-7362, mslay@lmi.org; Maria K. Hughes, Office of Under Secretary of Defense (Readiness) Readiness Programming and Assessment (703) 693-5586, maria.hughes@osd.mil; George Kuhn of LMI (703) 917-7246, gkuhn@lmi.org; and, LTC Steve Stoddard, OSD (Program Analysis and Evaluation), (703) 697-6408, steven.stoddard@osd.mil
ADVISOR: Mr. Joseph J. Angello, Jr., OUSD (Readiness), Director, Readiness Programming and Assessment
As the Department of Defense continues its transformation to meet the global challenges that confront the nation in the 21st Century, readiness takes on the new complexity of considering the capabilities of both interagency and coalition partners. Traditional readiness constructs must be rethought in order to provide agile and dynamic organizations with expanded mission capabilities, including traditional and non-traditional roles such as support to civil authorities.
Terminology such as rotational readiness, expeditionary forces, multiple service/component solutions, joint capability sourcing, mission capability assessments, full spectrum operations, irregular warfare, and SSTRO (stability, security, transition, and reconstruction operations), will dominate Department discussions for the foreseeable future. Therefore, we seek to discover what tools can be used to assess and manage organizations and individuals for the missions we face? Can we involve and assess interagency and coalition partner capabilities?
This working group focuses on readiness capability assessment tools to help answer the “ready for what” question. It also focuses on organizations/force management/force generation, and all relevant materiel, training, and personnel readiness issues. We consider analytic techniques and tools that allow for real improvements in how we plan, manage, and assess the readiness of our organizations to meet real world missions. Papers on a wide range of subjects are welcomed.
WG 22: Analytical Support to Training
CHAIR: John Kearley, Dynamics Research Corporation, 617-306-5562, jkearley@drc.com
CO-CHAIRS: Col John Sees, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, (202) 685-4761, SeesJ@ndu.edu; Stephanie Roper-Burton, USJFCOM, 757-203-7124, stephani.roperburton@jfcom.mil; Dave Baranek, OSD/Joint Assessment and Enabling Capability, (703) 575-4389, David.Baranek.CTR@osd.mil; and, Mark Garner, CALIBRE Corporation, mark.gerner.calibre@ocar.army.pentagon.mil
ADVISOR: Bruce Harris, Dynamics Research Corporation, 978-289-1878, bharris@drc.com
The theme for the 76th MORSS is: “Expanding Analysis for a More Secure World.” As the Armed Forces of the United States transform to meet the challenges of the 21st Century, they work toward a common frame of reference for joint force concepts, capabilities, and requirements. Evolving trends within the military environment highlight the importance of continuing to evolve training programs to meet, develop, sustain, and assess this joint perspective and meet operational readiness requirements to respond to the security challenges faced in the long war. The Department of Defense Directive 1322.18, of 03 September 2004, Subject: Military Training provides policy and guidance for the training of DoD personnel and the DoD components to support the operational needs of the Combatant Commanders. Training is a key element of readiness. Readiness is the “the ability of U.S. military forces to fight and meet the demands of the national military strategy”. Readiness is the synthesis of both unit readiness, derived from the ability of a unit to deliver the outputs for which it was designed, and joint readiness—the combatant commander’s ability to integrate and synchronize ready combat and support forces to execute the assigned mission. Continued budgetary pressures demand we use the most effective and cost efficient methods of training to attain the necessary readiness to support Combatant Commanders’ mission requirements and capabilities. Our ability to develop and use new analytical processes, frameworks, and tools, as well as new ways to use the old methodologies, to help solve the problems facing commanders and the training communities, is an important aspect to improving force readiness. We must ensure we develop methodologies to measure, quantify, and assess improvements in training and how well that training meets the commanders’ needs.
Other Working Groups: The mandate of Analytic Support to Training allows a wide range of interaction with most other working groups, especially WG-24 Measures of Merit, WG-21 Readiness, WG-17 Joint Campaign Analysis, and WG-33 Analytical Rigor in Experimentation.
WG 23: Casualty Estimation and Force Health Protection
CHAIR: Pat McMurry, 210-221-9404, pat.mcmurry@AMEDD.ARMY.MIL
CO-CHAIRS: James Zouris, 619-553-8389, Zouris@nhrc.navy.mil; and, Johnny Brock, 256-726-3631, Johnny.Brock.tbe.com
ADVISOR: Bruce Shahbaz, 703- 575-1675, Bruce.Shahbaz@altarum.org
The 76th MORSS theme “expanding analysis for a more secure world” highlights the challenge for the operations research community to develop innovative methods and applications to support casualty estimation and force health protection in all spectrums of military operations. The operational environments of interest range from stability, security, transition, and reconstruction operations to major combat operations with the use of chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear weapons. The operational environments also include homeland security, homeland defense, and military support to civilian agencies for disaster response. The major thrust of this working group is the development and application of quantitative methods for estimating casualties and determining the requirements to manage the casualties in the health service support system.
Casualty estimation encompasses personnel losses, such as the incidence of wounded-in-action, killed-in-action, disease and non-battle injured, psychiatric casualties, and fratricide.
Health service support includes, but is not limited to, the following areas: medical treatment (to include area support), patient movement, hospitalization, to include forward resuscitative surgery, dental services, preventive medicine, veterinary services, combat and operational stress control, health service logistic support, medical laboratory services, blood collection and distribution, and command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C4I).
The Global War on Terrorism, transformation, and support to disasters like Katrina has created a tremendous challenge in the area of casualty estimation and force health protection. Past presenters have included operations research analyst, statisticians, behavior scientists, clinical providers, medical planners, logisticians, and other scientists. Working Group 23 welcomes papers from all disciplines that highlight the use of operations research methods in the subject areas listed.
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