Brief Overview: The Manpower Systems Analysis Curriculum (MSA) leading to the MSM degree is designed for U.S. and international officers. Officers enrolled in the Manpower Systems Analysis curriculum at the Naval Postgraduate School undertake the challenge of an academic program designed to fill leadership and analytical roles in military manpower personnel, training, and education management. MSA subspecialists are responsible for developing and analyzing policies to ensure that the Navy and DoD are recruiting, training, utilizing and retaining personnel in the most efficient and effective ways possible. 

MSA is an analytical curriculum intended to develop skills necessary to perform and evaluate manpower analyses and manage the Navy's Human Resource community of interest. As such, the curriculum emphasizes mathematical, statistical, and other quantitative and qualitative analysis methods. Successful completion of the curriculum yields an officer skilled in conducting manpower personnel, training, and education policy analysis. The areas covered in the MSA curriculum include an understanding of manpower, personnel, training, education policy development, managing diversity, compensation systems, enlistment supply and retention models, manpower training models, manpower requirements determination processes, career mix, enlistment and reenlistment incentives, training effectiveness measures, and hardware/manpower trade-offs. 

Students gain familiarity with current models and methods of manpower analysis and economics as well as military manpower organizations, information systems and issues. The curriculum directly supports the Navy Human Resource Community of Interest.The Manpower Systems Analysis Curriculum (MSA) leading to the MSM degree is designed for US and international officers. Officers enrolled in the Manpower Systems Analysis curriculum at the Naval Postgraduate School undertake the challenge of an academic program

Curriculum Sponsors:
OPNAV, N-1, Chief of Naval Personnel and Subject Matter Expert, OPNAV, N14, Director of Strategic Planning and Analysis
Military Personnel Plans and Policy and Headquarters - United States Marine Corps (Manpower & Reserve Affairs)

Typical Subspecialty Jobs:
Military Personnel Policy and Career Progression (N13)
Joint Manpower Management Branch, JCS (J-1)
Manpower Resources Branch, Director Total Force Programming/Manpower (N12)
Manpower and Training Analyst, DCNO (Resources, Warfare Requirements and Assessment (N801D)
Manpower Plans, COMCDRPAC/COMCDRLANT (N1)
Naval Manpower Analysis Center (NAVMAC)
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, BUMED
Marine Corps MCCDC and M&RA
Headquarters - United States Marine Corps Manpower & Reserve Affairs (M&RA)
Marine Corps Combat Development Command (MCCDC)

Academic Associate: Yu-Chu Shen 

Program Officer: CDR Jefferson E. McCollum, SC, USN