Data dive could help Army understand how to boost reenlistments
By Leo Shane III
May 23, 09:15 AM
A growing number of commanders are using data analysis programs to help track soldiers' challenges and successes. (Pfc. Myenn LaMotta/Army)
Army leaders may already have the answers for how to solve a host of retention, morale and readiness problems across the service. They just have to find it among millions of points of data they’ve been collecting over the years.
Data analytics efforts once focused mainly on logistics and financial issues have slowly shifted in recent years to cover a host of personnel topics, according to service officials and outside programming specialists.
In the same way that commanders have used large data sets to track supplies and equipment across multiple bases, local leaders are now working to identify troops with specific skill sets, anticipating training shortfalls and other deficiencies in an ever-changing force. That in turn can hopefully help stave off morale issues, troop burnout, and mental health failures — challenges that have been frustratingly difficult for the service to solve.
https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2023/05/23/data-dive-could-help-army-understand-how-to-boost-reenlistments/
