1. Purpose
The purpose of the Personnel and National Security Workshop is to promote an exchange of ideas, capabilities, and methodologies of a quantitative nature across departments, Services, organizations, and agencies in the area of personnel. In short, the gathering would work at identifying where quantitative processes can work with decision makers and other expertise areas in improving an organization’s overall effectiveness in personnel.
The Personnel and National Security Workshop does not build upon previous Military Operations Research Society (MORS) sponsored events. There has not been a MORS event centering on personnel in several years. The objective of the January 2010 workshop centers on bringing together agencies and organizations from the U.S. that deal with personnel, (to possibly include our coalition partners and allies who share interests in this overall area). The general direction of the workshop allows for sharing and collaborating on the latest developments of new capabilities and approaches that analyze personnel areas in support of decision-makers. It also will allow these groups to come in with their challenges that do require some type of quantitative approach. In short, the meetings will focus on identifying, addressing and matching analytical gaps to analytical capabilities.
2. Background
People are essential to any endeavor in the Department of Defense and the Department of Homeland Security. For the departments and their subordinate organizations, getting people is only a start—the right expertise and the right skills will make the difference between success and failure. Personnel remain every bit as critical now as in previous years. If anything, demands on available personnel are on the rise as the governments of the United States work on responding to the new environment of the 21st Century: disasters and emergency response, homeland security, and irregular warfare. Furthermore, this new era of complexity demands closer cooperation among organizations in meeting the challenges (internationally, nationally, and locally).
Quantitative approaches to helping decision makers determine personnel requirements and manpower usage present a challenge. Although some techniques have been around for decades there are many areas where new quantitative capabilities may help organizations obtain better people or make better use of the people they have. In particular, the upcoming Quadrennial Homeland Security Review and the Quadrennial Defense Review will explore policies and capabilities that may reshape national security strategy for years to come…and which must be executed by the professionals in those departments.
3. Proponent Interest
The Office of the Secretary of Defense (Personnel and Readiness) has expressed strong interest in this workshop, as has the Office of the Secretary of the Army (Manpower and Reserve Affairs) Other organizations may be interested as the concept and the terms of reference are developed. The concept for the workshop was initially briefed at a meeting of the MORS Sponsors in January 2009.
4. Approach
The workshop will be organized into as many as six working groups and one synthesis group. Each working group session will be focused on different perspectives of personnel management, requirements, and resources.
Presentations in these work groups will emphasize: tools/methods, algorithms, historical and current data sources, on-going analysis, and identify opportunities to collaborate on future analysis and tool development. Successful projects, available data sources, and Operations Research (OR) “lessons learned” presentations are especially valuable.
A short out brief Thursday afternoon will conclude the workshop at which working groups will share insights from the research presented. Friday morning, working group and program chairs will meet for a wrap-up session and formalize responsibilities to document the workshop.
As previously mentioned the workshopwill include a Synthesis Group charged with integrating insights across groups and support the development of overall workshop recommendations. The Synthesis Group will also present a summary of its perspectives at Thursday’s out brief.
5. Workshop Points of Contact
Program Chair:
Ms. Ronda J. Syring, (JHU/APL), ronda.syring@jhuapl.edu
Co-Chairs:
Mr. Scott Flood, scott.flood@us.army.mil, 703-805-1176
Mr. John Jessup, john.jessup@osd.mil, 703-697-9272
Dr. Michael J. Kwinn, kwinnm@hotmail.com, 845-401-8361
MORS Points of Contact:
Ms. Krista Paternostro (Chief Executive Officer, MORS), krista@mors.org, 703-933-9070
Ms. Renee Carlucci (MORS Special Meetings Committee Chair)
renee.carlucci@us.army.mil
MORS Bulldog:
Dr. Michael J. Kwinn, kwinnm@hotmail.com, 845-401-8361
6. Sponsor/Service Reps
Army: Mr. Touggy Orgeron
Navy: Mr. Herb Cupo
Air Force: Mr. Balf Calloway
Marines: Col Joe Smith (USMC)
Joint Staff: Mr. Joe Bonnet
PA&E: Mr. Jim Bexfield, FS
7. Attendance
The goal is to achieve attendance that reaches beyond the national security operations research community to include other U.S. Government Agencies. The forum will be unclassified.
8. Deliverables
Products generated from the workshop will include:
An article summarizing the workshop and its findings will be produced and submitted to PHALANX in time for the next deadline after the meeting.
A general session presentation for the 78th MORSS.
A summary out-brief containing recommendations for analysis community action for presentation to the MORS Sponsors and other invitees as appropriate.
A proceedings document containing summaries of all sessions tailored outbriefs to key leaders/forums
Classification: Unclassifed. All presentations and discussions must be unclassified. Post-workshop products such as the PHALANX article, Sponsors’ out-brief, and MORSS presentation will be unclassified and cleared for public release, and may be posted on the MORS web site.
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General Session – Reducing the Impact Of Bias on Employee Development
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General Session – Reducing Manpower for a Technologically Advanced Ship
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Agenda
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Monday, 25 January 2010
1200-1700 Tutorials
1200: Decision Support Systems for Navy Community Managers (CNA)
1300: Value Focused Thinking (VFT) and Applications to Soldiers (USMA)
1500: System Dynamics: Solving Problems Using a “System of Systems” Approach (BAH)
1600: Modeling Growth of Canadian Military Occupation (Department of National Defence, Canada)
Working Group Warm-Up Session and Set-Up
Tuesday, 26 January 2010
0700 Workshop Registration and Continental Breakfast
Draft Plenary Agenda
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0800 MORS President’s Welcome – Mr. Kirk Michealson
Facility Host Welcome – Mr. Jack Keane
Workshop Welcome – Ms. Ronda Syring
Proponent’s Welcome – Dr. Curtis Gilroy, OUSD (P&R)(MPP/AP)
0830 Plenary Address – Dr. Chu, President IDA -
Biography
0945 Break
1000 Plenary Address – LTC Greg Gadson, US Army -
Biography
1115 Charter to the Working Groups
1130 Lunch
1230 Working Session I
TBD Mid-afternoon Break (as directed by Working Group Chairs)
1500 Special Session – General Assembly
1500: Reducing the Impact of Bias on Employee Development (Novations Group, Inc)
1600: JHU/APL Presentation
1700 Adjourn to Mixer
Wednesday, 27 January 2010
0715 Continental Breakfast
0800 Working Session II
TBD Mid-morning Break (as directed by Working Group Chairs)
1200 Lunch
1300 Working Session III
1500 Special Session – General Assembly
1500: Reducing Manpower for a Technologically Advanced Ship (JHU/ APL)
1600: Working Groups Status Reports
1700 Adjourn for the Day
Thursday, 28 January 2010
0715 Continental Breakfast
0800 Working Session IV
1200 Lunch
1300 Working Session V: Working Groups Out-Briefs
1600 Workshop Concluding Remarks – Ms. Ronda Syring
– Mr. Kirk Michealson (MORS President)
1700 Adjourn for the Day
Friday, 29 January 2010 –
Working Group Chairs/Workshop Leadership Only
0800 Working Group and Workshop Chairs Wrap-up and Discussions reference
PHALANX Article and Workshop’s Proceedings/Final Report
The tentative utilization for the Working Group Sessions will be as follows:
• Working Session I – Kickoff:
o Introduction, agenda, issues, and goals
o Provide context to orient WG participants for discussion and debate
o Technical Papers and Discussion Session #1
• Working Sessions II and III:
o Technical Papers and Discussion Session #2
• Working Session IV:
o Frame WG response and collect issues (brainstorming)
o Characterize OA analytical rigor and assess gaps/shortfalls
o Recommend strategies and roadmaps
o Refine ideas, arguments, capture WG debates
o Finalize out-brief slides
• Working Session V:
o Working Groups and Synthesis Group provide final out-briefs to attendees