A GOAL PROGRAMMING APPLICATION FOR ARMY OFFICER ACCESSION PLANNING.

The purpose of this paper is to present an application of Goal Programming (GP) to the Army Officer Accession Planning problem. The OP model aids the Army's Officer Personnel Management Directorate (OPMD) to determine the optimal distribution of officers into each of the fifteen career branches referred to as the Officer Accession/Branch Detail Problem. This study presents two OP formulations, preemptive and non-preemptive models, for accession planning. The results of the two OP models using data provided by the Distribution Division of OPMD are also discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]