CNO Issues ‘Human Capital Strategy’ for 2005

Adm. Vern Clark’s guidance to the Navy for 2005 includes directions for a “better educated, better trained and better compensated, but smaller workforce in the future.” He noted that he’s not talking about cutting numbers to save money while “dumping additional work on the backs of Sailors,” but changing processes to eliminate “make-work” and using available technology to eliminate unfulfilling work. He said the Navy is attracting, developing, and retaining a talented cadre of professionals, but that it must increase the percentage of new recruits with college experience to 15 percent. Furthermore, he directed commanders to develop a statistical model to predict recruit success in Zone A with accuracy equal to or greater than 90 percent. He also decreed that 70 percent of Navy recruits must score in the top 50th percentile of the AFQT, and 95 percent must have a high school degree or equivalent.