Jessie Riposo
Michael E. McMahon
James G. Kallimani
Daniel Tremblay
CURRENT AND FUTURE CHALLENGES TO
Resourcing U.S. Navy
Public Shipyards
CORPORATION
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Preface
Managing the U.S. Navy’s four public shipyards is a challenge. Te
shipyards must be ready and able to support the feet anytime and
anywhere in the world at a moment’s notice. For this reason, the public
shipyards are required to maintain core capabilities in ship repair
that the private sector does not maintain. In addition, they are sub-
ject to laws and regulations that dictate how and where work can be
performed.
Between fscal years 2004 and 2014, the number of civilians
employed at the Navy’s four public shipyards increased by 17 percent,
while the direct man-days executed increased by just 7 percent. Te
signifcant increase in personnel without a comparable increase in
workload has raised many questions, and possible explanations include
changes in the amount and type of work, workforce composition, per-
formance during execution, and organizational goals, such as desired
responsiveness.
To better understand the reasons for these trends, the Ofce of
the Chief of Naval Operations, Assessment Division, asked the RAND
National Defense Research Institute to identify infuences on Navy
shipyard manning requirements, examine the near- and middle-term
challenges in planning and programming for these workforce resources,
and provide recommendations for improving resource planning for the
shipyards. In turn, RAND researchers explored trends in Navy ship-
yard work, whether more personnel are now required to perform it, and
what risks shipyards may wish to address through additional hiring.
Tis study was exempt from human subjects protection because it did
ivCurrent and Future Challenges to Resourcing U.S. Navy Public Shipyards
not include analysis of discernable individual human subjects, only the
workforce in aggregate.
Tis research should be of interest to the Navy’s senior leadership
and operations leadership, public shipyard planners, Naval Sea System
Command, and others more generally interested in public shipyards,
resource planning, and workforce planning.
Tis research was conducted within the Acquisition and Technol-
ogy Policy Center of the RAND National Defense Research Institute,
a federally funded research and development center sponsored by the
Ofce of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staf, the Unifed Com-
batant Commands, the Navy, the Marine Corps, the defense agencies,
and the defense Intelligence Community.
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