A METHOD FOR SELECTING OPTIMUM NAVAL OFFICER QUOTAS FOR INDIVIDUAL POSTGRADUATE CURRICULA

from the United States Naval Postgraduate School Better methods have been developed recently to provide for the maintenance of a continuous inventory of U. S. Navy officer billets which require technical postgraduate educa-tion for the incumbents. The problem confronting the per-sonnel planner is how to allocate quotas to the various postgraduate curricula when requirements are far in excess of personnel resources. A method is developed for deter-mining the optimum number of officer inputs to individual postgraduate curricula, based on an assessment of long range utility to the Navy and the government. The method provides means for examining relative losses of utility to the gov-ernment when quotas for a particular postgraduate curriculum must be reduced below the optimum due to limitations on personnel available for advanced education