MINIFAST
Subtitle: an interactive model of the Navy's enlisted personnel system
By: by Richard W. Butterworth
Contributors: Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
Publisher: Naval Postgraduate School
Published: 1976
Place of publication: Monterey, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 36
Subjects: United States; Mathematical models; United States. Navy; Personnel management
Description: This report documents the MINIFAST model of the Navy's enlisted personnel system. The assumptions made and formulas used in computations are presented in detail, along with a general view of the modelling approach. The model, beginning with the selection of a subject rating, calculates an estimate of the yearly gains and losses of personnel, the promotions within, and the new recruits to the rating. A policy affecting the personnel system can be quickly evaluated for its effect on overages and shortages of personnel, its effect on the advancement system, and the need for new personnel, for multiple years in the future. Thus MINIFAST is an interactive planning model for rapid policy evaluation.
Notes: Title from cover.

"Prepared for: Navy Personnal Research and Development Center, San Diego, CA 92152 [and] Bureau of Naval Personnel, Washington, DC 20370"--Cover.

"August 1976"--Cover.

"NPS-55Bd76081"--Cover.

DTIC Identifiers: Minifast computer program, personnel overages, personnel shortages, personnel retirement, personnel models.

Author(s) key words: Minifast, personnel, interactive model.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 34)

"Approved for public release; distribution unlimited"--Cover.

Technical report; 1976.

ck/ 9/10/09.