Resources Required to Meet the U.S. Army Reserve's Enlisted Recruiting Requirements Under Alternative Recruiting Goals, Conditions, and Eligibility Policies / BRUCE R. ORVIS, CRAIG A. BOND, DANIEL SCHWAM, IRINEO CABREROS.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orvis, Bruce R., author.

Bond, Craig A. (Craig Andrew), author.

Schwam, Daniel, author.

Cabreros, Irineo, author.

Contributor:

Arroyo Center. Army Research Division, issuing body.

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Rand Corporation, publisher.

Series:

Research report (Rand Corporation)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

United States. Army--Recruiting, enlistment, etc--Evaluation.

United States.

Soldiers--Supply and demand--United States--Forecasting.

Soldiers.

Physical Description:

xv, 82 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm.

Other Title:

Resources Required to Meet the United States Army Reserve's Enlisted Recruiting Requirements Under Alternative Recruiting Goals, Conditions, and Eligibility Policies

Place of Publication:

Santa Monica, Calif. : RAND, [2022]

Summary:

The U.S. Army has several levers at its disposal to try to meet its recruiting mission, with resources jointly used for both Regular Army (RA) and U.S. Army Reserve (USAR) accessions. These resources differ in their cost per additional recruit produced and the lead time necessary to change individual resourcing levels and affect enlistments. The Army can also modify recruit eligibility policies to help it achieve its accession requirement within available resources. Recruiting resources and enlistment eligibility policies work together as a system to produce RA and USAR recruits, and understanding their interactions under varying requirements and environments enables decisionmakers to use their limited resources more effectively and efficiently to achieve the Army's accession requirements. The authors present a model-the Reserve Recruiting Resource Model (RRRM)-designed to optimize the resource levels and mix needed to achieve future USAR recruiting goals under changing enlisted accession requirements and recruiting environments and alternative eligibility policies for potential recruits. The model also enables comparison of alternative courses of action. This research builds on prior work by the RAND Arroyo Center on the effectiveness and lead times of alternative recruiting resources. In their results, the authors discuss using the RRRM to predict annual accessions from a specified baseline resourcing plan and provide several examples of how the tool can be used to assess potential recruiting resource and policy trade-offs or to prepare for alternative recruiting requirements via optimization of recruiting resources used for USAR recruiting.

Contents:

CHAPTER ONE: Introduction

CHAPTER TWO: An Overview of Past Resource Use and Eligibility Policies

CHAPTER THREE: Data Used for This Study

CHAPTER FOUR: The Reserve Recruiting Resource Model

CHAPTER FIVE: Model Demonstration and Optimization

CHAPTER SIX: Conclusions and Recommendations.

Notes:

"Prepared for the United States Army"

"RAND ARROYO CENTER"

"RR-A1304-1"--Back cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 81-82)

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

ISBN:

1977409563

9781977409560

OCLC:

1341370789