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Two Strategic Planning Tools Can Help the Army Meet its Reserve Officers' Training Corps Strategic Objectives

• Using the Reserve Officers' Training Corps (ROTC) Program Evaluation Tool, planners can simulate scenarios in order to evaluate existing ROTC programs on six strategic objectives: production, academic quality, demographic diversity, efficiency, cost, and quality of commissioned officers. Planners can prioritize objectives and apply filters as well.
• The ROTC Selection Evaluation Tool also gives planners the ability to specify a variety of possible objectives and constraints in order to select new schools for participation in ROTC or to expand existing sites with cadets. The possible objectives to be optimized are related to potential production, demographic diversity, academic quality, and efficiency. Planners can apply filters as well.
• The new tools give planners the ability to assess the implications of alternative strategies for commission mission allocation across sites, increases or decreases in unit size, and expansion sites in order to meet the Army's near-term officer production goals and longer-term strategic objectives for its ROTC program.
• The tools give planners the ability to develop mitigation strategies that improve efficiency yet minimize adverse impact on strategic goals.