Business Planning
Process Re-engineering - Actions taken by the contractor to identify, analyze, and improve existing processes within an organization to meet new goals and objectives. These actions often follow a specific methodology or strategy to create successful results.
Policy Analysis - Actions taken by the contractor to formalized an approach to studying and assessing projects, policies, and programs and determining their effectiveness.
Operational Business Application - Actions taken by the contractor to focused on implementation of new or existing business processes or software program.
Manpower, Requirements, and Trend Analysis - Actions (concept) taken by the contractor for collecting information and attempting to identify a pattern or trend in manpower or requirements.
Forecasting Manpower, MANPRINT, Strength Requirement, Distribution, and Utilization - Actions taken by the contractor to project manpower needs.
Life Cycle Support and Planning - Actions taken the contractor to support all facets of a process or program for the total life-time of that process or program including planning for:
- Structuring – Determining and distributing manpower requirements by component.
- Acquiring – Accessing human resources required to man the force.
- Distributing – Assigning soldiers based on requirements and priorities and civilians at command discretion based on resource availability.
- Training and Development – Individual and institutional training, self and leader development, education and support programs.
- Deploying – Mobilizing; demobilizing, reconfiguring, non-combatant evacuation, and repatriating military members, civilian employees, and contractors.
- Compensating – Managing pay, allowances, benefits, and financial entitlements of soldiers and retirees; and pay and incentives for civilian employees and contractors.
- Sustaining – Managing programs to maintain and advance the well being and work-life balance of soldiers, civilians, retirees’ family members, and veterans.
- Transitioning – Moving military and civilian employees among army components and to non-military related civilian status.
Research and Evaluation
Training - Actions taken by the contractor to develop familiarization training as it relates to understanding and use of a developed product.
Policy Development - Action taken by the contractor to create a deliberate plan of action to guide decisions and achieve rational outcome (s). Policy merely guides actions toward those that are most likely to achieve a desired outcome. Development is the process of creating policy based on research, coordination, and collaboration.
Life Cycle Support – Actions taken by the contractor to develop Life Cycle Models and Methodologies.
Proof of Concept Studies (to include prototype design and testing) - Actions taken by the contractor to provide proof of concept which is a short and or incomplete realization (or synopsis) of a certain method or idea to demonstrate its feasibility, or a demonstration in principle, whose purpose is to verify that some concept or theory is probably capable of exploitation in a useful manner. The proof of concept is usually considered a milestone on the way of a fully functioning prototype.
Content Management - Actions taken by the contractor to include (CM) a set of processes and technologies that support the evolutionary life cycle of digital information. This digital information is often referred to as digital content. Digital content may take the form of text, such as documents, multimedia files, such as audio or video files or any other file type which follows a content lifecycle which requires management.
Program Analysis - Actions taken by the contractor to ensure a formalized approach to studying and assessing projects, policies, and programs and determining if they are feasible and functional.
Risk Management and Mitigation - Actions taken by the contractor to integrate recognition of risk, risk assessment, developing strategies to manage it, and mitigation of risk using managerial resources. Risk management is a philosophy that attempts to integrate the entire spectrum of exposures that can affect an organization, to include operational and financial risks. It examines the effects of risk on the organization, rather than from the source of the exposure and identifies solutions to minimize their effect.
Analytical Analysis - Actions taken to conduct a formal analysis of a program, product, impact, etc.
Data Modeling and Management - Actions taken by the contractor for structuring and organizing of data which is then typically implemented in a database management system. In addition to defining and organizing the data, data modeling will impose (implicitly or explicitly) constraints or limitations on the data placed within the structure.
Communication Systems Enhancement - Actions focused on developing, upgrading, purchasing, and/or projecting enhancements to communications systems.
Predictive Modeling - Actions taken by the contractor to predict the outcome of something, e.g., implementation of a new project or policy.
Tracking - Actions taken by the contractor to access progress, locations, and impacts of HR Policies and actions reference their customers and programs.
Safety - Actions taken by the contractor to review and analyze incident reports under programs like "Well Being" as an example.