Abstract
Naval platforms require a significant number of skilled personnel to operate them. Predicting the numbers and skills required has traditionally been based on a historical analysis of previous platform classes. This ‘bottom-up’ approach, whilst supporting the introduction of platforms containing many legacy systems, has tended to limit the innovation in complement generation. More recently tools have been developed to derive the complement from a ‘top down’ analysis of platform functions, examples include ERASMUS and CVM-Manning Model. This paper describes the development of a new tool which adopts a similar approach to complement generation. The ‘Complement Calculator’ supports an in-depth analysis of the personnel demands in all three platform watch states, addressing some of the limitations inherent in current complement generation tools.
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