77th MORSS
US Army Command and General Staff College
Fort Leavenworth, KS
16-18 June 2009
Composite Group D
Resources/Readiness/Training
WG 18, WG 19, WG 20, WG 21, WG 22, WG 23
WG 18 - Strategic Deployment & Distribution
CHAIR:
Colonel Jean M. Mahan, PhD, USTRANSCOM, TCJ54-A, (618) 229-4104, Jean.Mahan@hq.transcom.mil
CO-CHAIRS:
Major Chad Erspamer, USTRANSCOM JDPAC, (618) 220-5169, Chad.Erspamer@ustranscom.mil
Lt Col Jeff Gulick, USTRANSCOM/TCJ54-S Distribution Analysis Branch, (618) 229-1885, Jeffrey.Gulick@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, (770) 494-9737, thomas.m.burwell@lmco.com
Maj Mark Friend, Air Mobility Command A9, (618) 229-4324, mark.friend@scott.af.mil
John Macke, Air Mobility Command A9, DSN 779-4308, (618) 229-4308, mark.friend@scott.af.mil
ADVISOR:
James T. Moore, Ph.D., Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT/ENS), (937) 255-3636, x4528, james.moore@afit.edu
The focus of the Deployment and Distribution working group (WG 18) is to share knowledge about modeling, simulation, and analyses (MS&A) of deployment and distribution operations. Abstracts for this working group should focus on 1) examining state-of-the-art improvements to deployment and distribution processes through modeling and/or analysis, 2) developing new modeling objects, families, and classes that represent mobility and transportation systems, and 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 progress 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 presentation 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 and of interest to the wider mobility community. Mobility, transportation, and logistics factors may focus on a spectrum of DoD operations including peacetime operations, contingency operations, and concurrent major theater wars. In addition, the efforts of this working group may 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.
The overall goal of the 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.
CHAIR:
Tovey Bachman, LMI, 703-917-7361, tbachman@lmi.org
CO-CHAIRS:
Carol DeZwarte, LMI, 703-917-7230, cdezwarte@lmi.org
Golnar Vaziri, LMI, 571-633-7901, gvaziri@lmi.org
ADVISOR:
Alan Johnson, AFIT/ENS, Alan.Johnson@afit.edu
Logistics, Reliability and Maintainability are key aspects of support for our national security and for that of our allies around the globe. Homeland security, commitments in Iraq and Afghanistan, potential threats from Iran and North Korea, as well as increasing belligerent behavior from Russia and growing Chinese military power, all underscore the need for global logistics support. The breadth and depth of this challenge demands the best from analysts, whether by developing new problem-solving approaches, or by applying existing techniques and models in novel ways.
Working Group 19 (WG 19) provides a forum for discussing a wide variety of logistics analyses, including support to deployed forces, logistics impact on readiness, supply chain management, system reliability, designing for improved system maintainability, life cycle cost and operational effectiveness, support for joint operations with U.S. allies, inter-agency support, and reverse logistics. This list is far from exhaustive; papers that seek to solve important problems in other areas of logistics are valued as well.
Especially of interest are new analytical approaches and tools for handling amorphous, hard-to-define, or long-standing problems, or applying existing techniques to solve pressing problems in novel ways. Existing analytical techniques include mathematical modeling, statistical analyses, stochastic or deterministic optimization, forecasting, and simulation. We welcome analyses or analytical tools that are completed work, as well as a “work in progress”—often the best aspect of the sessions is discussion, questions and feedback from your peers.
WG 20 – Manpower & Personnel
CHAIR:
LTC Mark Gorak, Army G1: Plans and Resources, 703-692-6882 gorakms@conus.army.mil
CO-CHAIR:
LTC Scott Nestler, Department of Mathematical Sciences, USMA, 845-938-5619 scott.nestler@usma.edu
Sheila Johnson, U.S. Army Manpower Analysis Agency, 703-805-2686, sheila.johnson3@us.army.mil
Richard VanMeter, Navy Recruiting Command, 901-874-9308, richard.vanmeter@navy.mil
ADVISOR:
LTC Rod Roederer, Chief, Operations Analysis Division, U.S. Army Cadet Command, Fort Monroe, 757-788-4606, rodney.roederer@usacc.army.mil
The individual and collective talents, skills and capabilities of the total force of active duty, reserves, civilians, contractors and interagency personnel are required to accomplish the mission and goals of national security. 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 the manpower and personnel research community brings to bear on the toughest personnel challenges facing national and international military and civilian leaders.
In keeping with the theme of the 77th MORSS, “Responding Globally, Leading Analytically,” 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. We hope to encourage the involvement of new communities in this important analytical area to boost the existing analytical power of the field. We are seeking individuals who have innovatively addressed these challenges to share high quality presentations that describe their work or work-in-progress. Presentations should be rigorous in content and address one or more of the following: 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. Aadms, OUSD (Readiness), (703) 693-5584, Joseph.Adams@osd.mil
CO-CHAIRS:
Maria K. Hughes, Office of Under Secretary of Defense (Readiness), (703) 693-5586, maria.hughes@osd.mil
LTC Steve Stoddard, OUSD PA&E, (703) 697-6408, Steven.Stoddard@osd.mil
F. Michael Slay, LMI, (843) 645-9393, mslay@lmi.org
MAJ Evan C. Ewachiw, ARNG Plans Analyst, (703) 607-3198, evan.ewachiw@us.army.mil
Neal Siegel, US Northern Command, (719) 554-0589, neal.siegel@northcom.mil
ADVISOR:
Joseph J. Angello, Jr., OUSD (Readiness), Director, Readiness Programming and Assessment, (703) 693-5584, Joseph.Angello@osd.mil
As the Department of Defense (DoD) 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 both at home and abroad.
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, 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 as well as both completed work and works-in-progress.
WG 22 - Analytic Support to Training
CHAIR:
David Baranek, Alion Science, 703-575-4389, David.Baranek.ctr@osd.mil
CO-CHAIRS:
Maria Minchew, Dynamics Research Corporation, 913-828-5966, mminchew@drc.com
Kevin Pilgrim, Boeing, 407-243-3785, kevin.h.pilgrim@boeing.com
COL John Sees, Industrial College of the Armed Forces, 202-685-4761, seesj@ndu.edu
Mark Gerner, CALIBRE Corporation, 703-244-4198, mark.gerner.calibre@ocar.army.pentagon.mil
ADVISOR:
Bruce Harris, Dynamics Research Corporation, 978-289-1878, bharris@drc.com
The theme for the 77th MORSS is: “Responding Globally, Leading Analytically.” As the Armed Forces of the United States transform to meet the challenges of the 21 st 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. Department of Defense (DoD) Directive 1322.18, 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 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, metrics, 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.
We seek analytical presentations addressing any of the mission priorities and concerns outlined above. Both completed work and works-in-progress are welcome.
WG 23 - Casualty Estimation and Force Health Protection
CHAIR:
Johnny Brock, 256-726-3631, Johnny.Brock@tbe.com
CO-CHAIRS:
James Zouris, 619-553-8389, James.Zouris@med.navy.mil
Bruce Shahbaz, 703-575-1675, Bruce.Shahbaz@altarum.org
ADVISOR:
Pat McMurry, 210-221-9404, Pat.McMurry@amedd.army.mil
The 77th MORS Symposium theme "Responding Globally, Leading Analytically" highlights the challenge for the analyst community to develop innovative methods and applications to provide world-class healthcare to America's globally deployed military forces. The Global War on Terrorism (GWOT), transformation, and military support to civilian agencies for disaster response has created a tremendous challenge in supporting the broad range 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 (CBRN).
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).
Working group 23 (WG 23) welcomes papers in concepts under development and research as well as proven applications and techniques from all disciplines that highlight the use of operations research methods in the subject areas listed above. Past presenters have included operations research analyst, statisticians, behavioral scientists, clinical providers, medical planners, logisticians, and other scientists.
Composite Group A • Composite Group B • Composite Group C
Composite Group D • Composite Group E • Composite Group F