Plan for Personnel
Definition
Planning for personnel involves the identification and acquisition of personnel, both military and civilian, with the skills and grades required to operate, maintain, and support systems throughout their life cycle.
General/Information/Narrative
Planning for personnel typically occurs during the Technology Development phase. It is vital to plan for the personnel that are needed to properly maintain, operate, and support a system. Early identification of necessary personnel is essential to any system. If the needed manpower is an additive requirement to existing manpower levels of an organization, a formalized process of identification and justification must be made to a higher authority.
The PM shall work with the personnel community to define the human performance characteristics of the user population based on the system description, projected characteristics of target occupational specialties, and recruitment and retention trends. To the extent possible, systems shall not require special cognitive, physical, or sensory skills beyond that found in the specified user population. For those programs that have skill requirements that exceed the knowledge, skills, and abilities of current military occupational specialties, or that require additional skill indicators or hard-to-fill military occupational specialties, the PM shall consult with personnel communities to identify readiness, personnel tempo, and funding issues that impact program execution.
Policies, Directives, Regulations, Laws
DoDI 5000.02, Operation of the Defense Acquisition System
Best Practices, Lessons Learned, Stories, Guides, Handbooks, Templates, Example Tools, Communities of Practice, LEC Tools
PowerLOG is a logistics data management system fulfilling Logistics Support Analysis Record (LSAR) requirements defined by MIL-STD-1388-2B, as well as Logistics Management Information (LMI) defined by GEIA-STD-0007. Personnel data is included in the logistics data stored. The Annual Manhours by Skill Specialty Code and Level of Maintenance Report (LSA-001), the Manpower Requirements Criteria (LSA-065), and Consolidated Manpower Personnel and Training (LSA-075) all directly support this activity. PowerLOG supports the development, integration, and review of logistic product information throughout the acquisition life cycle. PowerLOG is available free to all Government agencies and their contractors, and can be obtained by visiting: https://www.logsa.army.mil/lec/powerlog/.
The Computerized Optimization Model for Predicting and Analyzing Support Structures (COMPASS) is a system Level of Repair Analysis (LORA) modeling tool. LORA is the analytical methodology used to determine the maintenance repair levels where items should be removed and replaced; and ultimately repaired or discarded. COMPASS estimates the cost to repair or discard items at various maintenance levels, with contractor facilities included as a separate level. COMPASS optimizes both the maintenance and support to achieve your target operational availability (Ao). COMPASS can consider up to four levels of organic maintenance (supports Two-Level Maintenance studies), supply support, and contractor support. You can also use COMPASS output data as a source for developing the MAC and SMR codes. COMPASS is a free tool available to both DoD and contractors at: https://www.logsa.army.mil/lec/compass/.
Training Resources
Related Articles
Required for:
Responsible Activity:
Definition General Info Policies Guides Communities Training Related