Strengthening Data Science Methods for Department of Defense Personnel and Readiness Missions (2017) / Chapter Skim
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2 Overview of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel & Readiness)
2 Overview of the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel & Readiness)
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At its core, P&R is responsible for establishing policies for recruit ent, placement, and m retention of 1.3 million active duty military service embers, 1.1 million m National Guard and Reserve members (DoD, 2015a) , and 750,000 appropriated fund civil service employees (Defense Civilian Personnel Advisory Services, DoD Demographics as of September 30, 2014)
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Code,3 the Under Secretary of Defense (Personnel & Readiness) is responsible for military readiness; total force management; military and civil service personnel requirements; military and civil service personnel training; military and civil service family matters; exchange, commissary, and nonappropriated fund4 activities; personnel requirements for weapons support; National Guard and reserve components; and health affairs (10 U.S.
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Examples include the Defense Commissary Agency, the TRICARE health care program, the Federal Voting Assistance Program, the Defense Travel Office, and the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC)
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Manpower and Reserve Affairs The two major tasks this office undertakes are developing personnel policies for civil service employees and servicemembers. The Office of Civilian Personnel Policy establishes policies related to human resource issues and develops strategies and procedures for the effective management of DoD's civilian workforce, and may operate in partnership with the Office of Personnel Management (OPM)
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VADM Raquel Bono Director, DoD Education Activity Sexual Assault Prevention & Thomas Brady (C) Response Office Director, Personnel Risk MG Camille Nichols President, Uniformed & Resiliency Defense Language & National Services University of Leonard G
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In addition to overseeing enlisted servicemembers, it oversees officer accession policy through, for instance, the service academies and the Reserve Officer Training Corps. The Assistant Secretary for Manpower and Reserve Affairs, through the above-mentioned Office of Accession Policy, oversees the recruitment of enlisted servicemembers, a task that involves administering more than 1 million cognitive and noncognitive ability tests a year and more than 250,000 physical exams (USMEPCOM, 2015)
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. The Office of Manpower and Reserve Affairs has responsibility for six branches of reserve components in DoD, one each attached to the Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marine Corps, as well as National Guard units associated with the Army and the Air Force (Reserve Affairs, 2015)
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• Providing leadership in civil service employee management through the Defense Civilian Personnel Advisory Service. • Overseeing the Federal Voting Assistance Program, which manages the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act.
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at Patrick Air Force Base, Florida, which conducts equal opportunity and equal employment opportunity training, education, and research. The DoD/VA Collaboration Office is responsible for managing the transition of approximately 200,000 active duty servicemembers to veterans annually (Joint Chiefs of Staff, 2014)
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6. Anticipating and responding to sensitive behavioral issues. FORCE OF THE FUTURE Early into his term as Secretary of Defense, Ashton Carter committed himself to rethinking DoD policies for both military and civil service employees (Carter, 2015a)
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, Brad Carson, spoke out frequently, raising fundamental challenges about civil service rules (e.g., authority to appoint) and military promotions (e.g., the up-or-out precept embodied in the Defense Officer Personnel Management Act)
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. REFERENCES AFHSC (Armed Forces Health Surveillance Center)
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2012b. "United States Military Entrance Processing Command (USMEPCOM)
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USMEPCOM (U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command)
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