Demonstration of the Early-On Manpower Requirements Estimation Methodology: AH-64 (APACHE) and UH-60A (BLACK HAWK) Helicopters

Abstract : Under Phase I of this contract, Management Consulting & Research, Inc. (MCR) was tasked to: develop and implement a methodology for projecting the long-term supply of manpower, by categories of aptitude, in the non-prior service youth population; design a procedure for determining, very early in the acquisition process, manpower demand over the life cycle of an individual weapon system; implement and validate the demand projection methodology by estimating manpower requirements for the Army's M1 Main Battle Tank; and recommend ways in which to generalize the manpower demand methodology to weapon systems in all four services. In the second phase of its work, MCR was tasked to further demonstrate the applicability of the Early-On Manpower Requirements Estimation Methodology (EMREM) and test the accuracy of its estimates for both high and low technology systems. The methodology is demonstrated using two systems: the AH-64 (APACHE) helicopter and the UH-60A (BLACK HAWK) helicopter. Included are hardware characteristics, possible baseline systems, and a description of the new system in terms of appropriate baseline systems/subsystem characteristics. Manpower requirements are estimated and translated into aptitude clusters.