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Organizations Tend to Use One or a Combination of Four Models to Deploy Civilians

• Reactive internal sourcing involves identifying a requirement, which triggers a recruitment process internal to the organization. Deployable civilians are selected and undergo any necessary training or preparation. After returning from deployment, civilians return to the post they held prior to deploying.
• Proactive internal sourcing involves selecting individuals for deployment from a pool of eligible civilians. This readiness pool is available to respond to requirements that might emerge.
• Reactive external sourcing involves identifying a requirement and recruiting deployable civilians externally in response. An outside expert is then hired and, after returning from deployment, is no longer affiliated with the organization.
• Proactive external sourcing involves identifying deployable civilians outside the organization to meet a set of forecasted requirements. When a requirement matches the capabilities of a particular individual, he or she is notified of the need to deploy, at which point his or her pay and benefits are activated.

Management of Civilian Deployment Capabilities Generally Must Consider Three Priority Areas: Policy, Planning and Strategy, and Operations

• On a policy level, processes for deploying civilians require balancing readiness with cost and boosting understanding of deployable civilian capabilities among military commanders.
• In terms of planning and strategy, organizations must balance the need for quick deployments with the need to sustain a set of deployable capabilities.
• In terms of operations, the extent to which an organization centralizes management of civilian deployment processes determines the speed, budget, capability, and resources that it requires.