Manpower & Organization

Please contact the manpower office, 238-4332 for assistance. Your Commander's Support Staff office or resource manager should also have that information, as they work together with the manpower office to support your unit. 

Manpower deals with "spaces" not "faces." We work with maintaining the authorizations on a unit's Unit Manpower Document (UMD) and are responsible for things such as grades and AFSCs. The personnel system assigns people against those authorizations.

In most cases, manpower authorizations are established by manpower determinants which relate programmed manpower equation based on such things as the length of the course and the number of students programmed in each class. The programmed student entries for a fiscal year are used to calculate the number of classes and students going through the course. That information is in turn entered into an equation that calculates the number of instructor authorizations that will be put on the UMD for that course.

If the work being done is included in the Process Oriented Description, or POD, that is part of the other work center's manpower standard, then only the owning work center may receive credit for doing that work. If it is work not included in another work center's POD, nor is it in your POD, then it must be directed by higher headquarters in order to qualify for a variance.

The Manpower community does not own manpower resources. The functional community controls them. Manpower's role is to help the functional's at the local and headquarters levels manage those resources. Air Force end strength is the ultimate constraint on how many authorizations may be funded. To the degree that the aggregation of all requirements established by manpower determinants exceed end strength, those resources can only be placed on the UMD as unfunded requirements.

Yes. Savings within your wing, such as from other requirements decreasing or ending, can often be applied to fund up unfunded requirements. Sometimes the MAJCOM can also find the resources in the same manner. In the example of course manpower standards, HQ USAFE can realign savings from one training group to another. Also, other commands sometimes transfer resources to USAFE to fund up new courses that they need to send their personnel to attend.