Standard Practice for Manpower and Personnel
Authors:   G-45 Human Systems Integration
Published: December 2023

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<div class="htmlview paragraph">This standard covers Manpower and Personnel (M&amp;P) processes throughout planning, design, development, test, production, use, and disposal of a system. Depending on contract phase and/or complexity of the program, tailoring can be applied. The scope of this standard includes Prime and Subcontractor M&amp;P activities; it does not include Government M&amp;P activities.</div>
<div class="htmlview paragraph">The primary goals of a contractor M&amp;P program typically include:</div>
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<div class="htmlview paragraph">Ensuring that the system design complies with the latest customer Manpower estimates (numbers and mix of personnel, plus availability) and that discrepancies are reported to management and the customer.</div></li>
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<div class="htmlview paragraph">Ensuring that the system design is regularly compared to the latest customer personnel estimates (capabilities and limitations) and that discrepancies are reported to management and the customer.</div></li>
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<div class="htmlview paragraph">Identifying, coordinating, tracking, and resolving M&amp;P risks and issues and ensuring that they are:
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<div class="htmlview paragraph">Raised at design, management, and program reviews.</div></li>
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<div class="htmlview paragraph">Coordinated with Training, Logistics, and the other HSI disciplines.</div></li>
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<div class="htmlview paragraph">Identifying and pursuing opportunities to reduce Manpower and Personnel demands and costs.</div></li>
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<div class="htmlview paragraph">Ensuring that M&amp;P considerations are addressed in analyses, design decisions, trade-offs, and design changes (e.g., ECPs).</div></li>
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<div class="htmlview paragraph">Conducting Manpower and Personnel analysis activities and supporting human factors analyses (e.g., workload analysis) and other HSI domain analyses to provide evidence to support design decisions and trade-offs and to coordinate shared data (e.g., task analyses).</div></li>
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<div class="htmlview paragraph">Ensuring that M&amp;P analyses and results are timely, technically competent/complete, and in a format that enables them to be included in design decisions, tradeoffs, and changes.</div></li>
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<div class="htmlview paragraph">Ensuring that M&amp;P issues discovered in test, evaluation, demonstration, Operational Test and Evaluation (OT&amp;E), and operations are tracked and resolved in a technically competent/complete and timely manner.</div></li>
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<div class="htmlview paragraph">Ensuring that the subjects used in experiments, simulations, tests, evaluations, and demonstrations are consistent with the customer’s latest projected target audiences.</div></li></ul></div>