FAA Selects SkillsNET to Perform Workload and Manpower Resourcing Analysis

WAXAHACHIE, TX April 2, 2008 -

SkillsNET®, provider of a customized suite of products and services to help employers quickly and cost effectively develop accurate, company-specific SkillObjects® and Human Capital Objects®, announced today that the FAA has selected SkillsNET and CGH Technologies to perform a workload and resourcing analysis for Engineers and Project Management personnel. The effort will provide FAA leadership additional insight has they transform the services to support the annual Corporate Work Plan (CWP).

SkillsNET will be analyzing Project Work Breakdown Structures (WBS), Activities, and Steps for over 4,000 FAA corporate-wide projects requiring almost 4,000 professionals to implement. The objective of the analysis is to develop workload and resourcing metrics designed to help program and project managers to assign the right skills to the right work for the right amount of time and effort. Workload and manpower resourcing standards are planning tools consisting of mathematical models that are used to compute the number of persons required to perform a job or set of tasks.  They are developed using industrial engineering techniques, statistics, and operations research analysis. 

Periodic updates to the formulas are necessary to ensure the standards reflect current activities and resources.  At present, the work measurement formulas used in the current air traffic control staffing standards, were last updated in the early 1990’s.  Since the development of these staffing standards there have been numerous changes in the processes, procedures, and equipment used in the ATO community, as well as the availability of a variety of different training methods and mediums.

Members of SkillsNET’s Industrial Psychology Solutions (IPS) team will utilize several different methodologies to collect relevant data for workload and manpower resourcing analyses development.  Though occupational data have been captured for these positions there is still a need for the identification of facility specific information, as well as any unique characteristics that may be relevant to staffing requirements.

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SkillsNET offers an innovative SkillObject® suite of tools for Human Capital initiatives; Social Network and Organizational Network analysis; Human Systems Integration (HSI); Skill Standards; and Competency Management, which allows enterprises to have a unique visibility to the capability, capacity, and competence of its structured and unstructured workforce.  The SkillsNET approach allows employers to capture their workforce environment through web-based applications with minimal worker and capital investment. Highly trained Skills Analysts and Industrial and Organizational Psychologists, available on-site or via phone, assist the employee and employer through the tool integration process. For additional information please visit www.skillsnet.com