Early MPTS analysis: methods in this 'madness' (military management tools)

The approved DoD Instruction (DoDI) 5000.2, Defense Acquisition Management Policy and Procedures, and draft AFR 57-1, Operational Needs, Requirements, and Concepts, require Manpower, Personnel, Training, and Safety (MPTS) or human systems integration (HSI) analysis early in the acquisition process. These new requirements push MPTS analysis earlier than ever before into the pre-concept and concept phases. Air Force (AF) and DoD acquisition leaders have been stressing the importance of higher quality system requirements identification and refinement prior to entering the demonstration/validation phase, since it is less expensive to make conceptual changes than engineering changes during the later acquisition phases. The authors examine one method by which AF personnel and contractors can conduct early MPTS/HSI analysis with MPTS tools and databases.< >