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The Navy's Shore Requirements, Standards, and Manpower Planning System (Shorstamps)--Does the Navy Really Want It?

FPCD-80-29 Published: Feb 07, 1980. Publicly Released: Feb 07, 1980.
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Congressional committees have criticized the Navy for its lack of an acceptable manpower planning program for shore establishments which use over half the Navy's personnel. The Navy recognized the need for such a program in 1972, and began work on a new system called SHORSTAMPS (Shore Requirements, Standards, and Manpower Planning System). SHORSTAMPS is a comprehensive functional approach for determining manpower needs. The purpose of SHORSTAMPS is to determine the minimum quantity and quality of positions each shore activity needs to accomplish its assigned mission. SHORSTAMPS has four specific objectives: (1) determine, document, and maintain quantitative and qualitative manpower requirements necessary to perform Navy support missions ashore; (2) relate manpower requirements with a high degree of credibility; (3) redistribute manpower resources according to variations in the kind and amount of work to be done; and (4) provide management capability to assist major users of manpower in their planning and programming. Congress has continually expressed its interest in SHORSTAMPS. In June 1976, the House and Senate Armed Services Committees directed the Navy to accelerate the program and to periodically report on its progress. As a result, the Navy established a new time schedule, and estimated that 70 percent of the shore population would be under SHORSTAMPS standards by the end of the fiscal year 1987.

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Congressional oversightNaval personnelPersonnel managementStaff utilizationStandardsStrategic planningMilitary forcesMilitary manpowerHuman capital managementManpower planning