Defence Workforce Transition Simulation and Analysis

Katie Mortimer, Cameron Pike, Vivian Nguyen

2023

Abstract

Simulation plays a key role in the workforce planning of defence workforces, with their strictly hierachical nature, and complex interactions and interdependencies. In this paper, the Athena tool suite, containing Athena Lite and Athena Pro, is introduced. The Athena tool suite is the official workforce planning tool of the Australian Defence Force (ADF), and uses Discrete Event Simulation and hybrid Agent-Based Discrete Event Simulation to simulate the highly complex ADF workforce. These are web-based, scalable tools that have been specifically designed to be used by Defence workforce planners. Their use in the analysis of the Australian Army Aviation’s planned transition from the Tiger Armed Reconnaissance Helicopter to the Apache helicopter demonstrates their capability in identifying workforce shortfalls and risks, bottlenecks, and potential solutions through optimisation.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Mortimer K., Pike C. and Nguyen V. (2023). Defence Workforce Transition Simulation and Analysis. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: WAPAT, ISBN 978-989-758-627-9, pages 249-258. DOI: 10.5220/0011920400003396

in Bibtex Style

@conference{wapat23,
author={Katie Mortimer and Cameron Pike and Vivian Nguyen},
title={Defence Workforce Transition Simulation and Analysis},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: WAPAT,},
year={2023},
pages={249-258},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011920400003396},
isbn={978-989-758-627-9},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Operations Research and Enterprise Systems - Volume 1: WAPAT,
TI - Defence Workforce Transition Simulation and Analysis
SN - 978-989-758-627-9
AU - Mortimer K.
AU - Pike C.
AU - Nguyen V.
PY - 2023
SP - 249
EP - 258
DO - 10.5220/0011920400003396