Force structure planning

How big is a battalion? What does it carry? Who fills each position? A force structure planning system answers that for every unit of an armed force — and keeps the answer consistent from the first capability study to the approved annual plan.

From capability to unit

• Capabilities. Start from doctrine: what the force must be able to do.
• Rough planning. Building blocks, readiness requirements, personnel envelopes and costs — investment and operation.
• Detailed planning. The unit hierarchy, every position by function and rank, every item of material, ammunition by rule.

Reusable allocation templates carry personnel and material from one unit to the next. Change the template once, every unit that uses it follows.

One plan, many planners

Doctrine, development and detailed planners work side by side, each in their own area. A control office merges approved changes into the definitive plan. Every record moves from planned to released, approved and exported — and is read-only once approved.

Plan periods run over several years. Compare them, inherit from them, keep provisional plans in step with the current one.

Plans people can read

• Organisation charts with military symbols, drawn by MSS^®
• Headcount tables by unit, function and rank
• Cost reports and readiness datasheets
• On-screen preview, PDF, Excel and Word — in four languages

An offline organisation-chart viewer takes a snapshot of the plan to readers without database access.

Connected

An unattended service delivers the approved plan to the systems that depend on it — ERP, personnel, logistics and the central defence data hub — on a schedule.

Built to last

In service for more than two decades — and never frozen. Over those years we have maintained, improved and expanded it release by release: new planning areas, new interfaces, new reports, as the force and its doctrine changed. Built on MetaBase, so it can keep growing. We don’t name the customer. Talk to an engineer.