USAF Aeronautical Systems Division´s model manpower personnel, and training organization-an update

Based on an identified need to enhance the consideration of manpower, personnel and training (MPT) factors early in the weapon system acquisition process, the US Air Force established a model MPT integration organization. The organization was charted to study, recommend, and test ways that the US Air Force´s most expensive asset, people, can more fully affect weapon system design. The MPT Directorate has received initial staffing increments and has published its implementation plan. The author considers four major topics: MPT integration problems to be solved; MPT process objectives; the new organization´s mission and functions; and the latest update of the Directorate´s concept of operation, including MPT analysis tools the Directorate could use