Resources Required to Meet the U.S. Army’s Enlisted Recruiting Requirements under Alternative Recruiting Goals, Conditions, and Eligibility Policies. RAND Corporation. David Knapp et al. July 12, 2018
The purpose of this research is to enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of the Army’s use of recruiting resources and policies. A theoretical model was estimated based on the Army’s recruiting experience. Using this model, a tool was created for the Army’s use in assessing alternative courses of action and optimizing resource levels and mix under alternative enlisted accession goals, labor market conditions, and recruit eligibility policies. Understanding how recruiting resources and recruit eligibility policies work together as a system under varying recruiting requirements and environments is critical for decision makers who want to use their limited resources to efficiently and effectively achieve the Army’s accession requirements. The recruiting resource model developed in this report considers the relationship among the monthly level and mix of recruiting resources, recruit eligibility policies, accumulated contracts, and training seat targets. It models how these factors combine to produce monthly accessions and the number of enlistment contracts at the fiscal year’s end that are scheduled to access in the following fiscal year. [Note: contains copyrighted material].
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