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Improving Precommissioning Assignments and Readiness on the U.S. Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Cutter / JENNIFER LAMPING LEWIS, AARON C. DAVENPORT, BRYNN TANNEHILL, AUSTIN LEWIS, JAMES V. MARRONE, VICTORIA M. SMITH, BARBARA BICKSLER.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lewis, Jennifer Lamping, 1976-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- United States. Coast Guard--Personnel management.
- United States.
- United States. Coast Guard--Operational readiness.
- Revenue cutters--United States.
- Revenue cutters.
- Personnel management--United States.
- Personnel management.
- Operational readiness (Military science).
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 103 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Other Title:
- Improving Precommissioning Assignments and Readiness on the United States Coast Guard Offshore Patrol Cutter
- Place of Publication:
- Santa Monica, CA : RAND, 2022
- Summary:
- As the first of 25 offshore patrol cutters (OPCs) nears delivery, the U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) is focusing greater attention on the staffing needs of these ships, particularly during the precommissioning period. USCG leadership believes that crew satisfaction with these assignments is low and that this has implications for force readiness. In addition, the USCG has limited return on its training investment if crew members leave the service or return to shore duty soon after their precommissioning assignments. Thus, increasing institutional knowledge is also a priority. Researchers evaluated 11 courses of action (COAs) that the USCG could consider to improve crew satisfaction with precommissioning assignments and overall fleet readiness-the first being the status quo precommissioning process. Of the remaining ten COAs, five would delay crew reporting; three would develop expertise, facilitate the sharing of best practices across OPC crews, and promote standardization; and two would adjust personnel assignment and compensation policies. Although some COAs are mutually exclusive, others could be combined to address a broader set of problems or more effectively address a single issue. The most appropriate combination depends on how the USCG prioritizes the various evaluation criteria. One way forward would be for the USCG to adopt an incremental approach: Implement some of the more-feasible COAs in the short term while working toward some of the higher-impact COAs over the long term.
- Contents:
- Chapter One: Introduction
- Chapter Two: The Current Precommissioning Process
- Chapter Three: Delayed Crew Reporting
- Chapter Four: Developing Institutional Knowledge
- Chapter Five: Incentive Pays
- Chapter Six: Opportunities to Combine Courses of Action
- Chapter Seven: Summary Evaluation and Other Considerations
- Appendix A: Interview Protocols
- Appendix B: A Detailed Timeline of Precommissioning Events
- Appendix C: Analysis of Personnel Data.
- Notes:
- Title from PDF document (viewed December 13, 2022)
- "HSOAC, HOMELAND SECURITY OPERATIONAL ANALYSIS CENTER"
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 99-103)
- Description based on electronic resource
- ISBN:
- 1977409482
- 9781977409485
- OCLC:
- 1357137580
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