A METHOD FOR QUANTIFYING MANPOWER, PERSONNEL, TRAINING, AND EDUCATION (MPT&E) IMPACTS ON COMMAND AND CONTROL (C2) RESILIENCE IN MARITIME OPERATIONS CENTERS

Reissued 17 APR 2020 to correct spelling of the term "pairing."This thesis develops a logic for objectively measuring the required effort that the staff of a maritime headquarters and its embedded maritime operations center must exert to accomplish tasks within a time period. It also provides a way to gain insights into the relative quality of work and risk assumed by them to do so, given the current manning and experience levels of its staff members. We focus on a method for considering staff activities—conducted under the constraints of limited resources by a versatile workforce—as a project scheduling problem, and we expand previous project scheduling methods to include the simultaneous consideration of multiple projects with limited resources. We develop a simulation-based tool, called the Dynamic Resource Allocation Analysis Simulation Tool Kit (DRAASTK), that incorporates manager-defined preferences and priority rules to provide task-resource parings, a list of delays and the resources responsible, and resource utilization information. We use these outputs to quantify the risk to mission accomplishment that is accepted when staff levels, training, and equipment are underfunded, and articulate a more realistic picture for the level of effort a staff must exert to support the commander's command and control (C2) mission.http://archive.org/details/amethodforquanti1094562304Outstanding ThesisLieutenant Commander, United States NavyApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited