Research Guides: Manpower : Reports & Research

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CRS Manpower Reports

CRS Manpower Reports
The page of this guide that links to CRS reports related to military manpower.

CQ Researcher

CQ Researcher (1923-current) (CQ Press)
Each comprehensive report on a current issue includes an overview, background, pro/con, chronology, bibliography and more!

Women in Combat (CQ Researcher Report)
May 13, 2016
Reforming Veterans' Health Care
Nov. 21, 2014

Research Centers & Reports

This list of selected agencies producing or disseminating defense-related reports is not comprehensive. For more resources, see the Reports section of the Business, Management & Economics guide, or use the Library Search.

Center for Military Readiness
The Center concentrates on studying and analyzing military personnel issues. Their site includes articles on numerous relevant issues.
Center for Naval Analyses (CNA)
Research for the Navy and Marine Corps on categories such as data & architecture management, domestic safety & security, fleet & installation readiness, force readiness, future fleet concepts, global security, innovation & communications, plans & strategy, strategic competition, tactics & operations.
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Also check with our Restricted Resources librarian since many CNA reports are limited to Government or DOD only, and may be difficult to locate elsewhere.
CNA only sends selected reports to DTIC.
Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Cost estimates, analyses and projections on all aspects of the federal budget. Topics of interest to Manpower include Health Care and Social Security..

Government Accountability Office (GAO)
Reports & testimonies, legal decisions & opinions, comptroller general presentations, etc. published by this agency which serves as a "watchdog" organization for Congress.

Human Resources Research Organization
Human resources web links, research summaries.
Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA)
IDA produces analyses on a wide range of defense topics including those related to readiness, training, education and personnel issues. Search for reports using the Explore Selected IDA Publications link.
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IDA researchers are developing new analytic approaches for examining bold new force employment concepts that could leverage the "revolution in military affairs." These new concepts--characterized by more agile, responsive forces designed to exploit U.S. advantages in information, precision attack, and logistics support--require new techniques and new ways of thinking about force and technology interactions.
Michael D. Palm Center
(continues work of the former Center for the Study of Sexual Minorities in the Military).
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The Palm Center promotes the interdisciplinary analysis of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and other marginalized sexual identities in the armed forces.

NBER (National Bureau of Economic Research)
Economics papers

RAND Reports and Publications
Try searching for terms like [manpower] or [occupational]
US Census Bureau
U.S. government's primary source of data about the nation's people and economy.

Professional Associations

Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM)
Society of Labor Economists (SOLE)
Includes links to full text papers presented at the SOLE annual society meetings.

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