The Office of the Secretary of Defense enlisted the RAND National Defense Research Institute (NDRI) to convene a panel of experts to provide assistance in refining the implementation of the Department of Defense Human Capital Strategy (HCS). The goal of HCS is to develop a foundation for military personnel management. A major component of this goal is a competency-based occupational analysis system. In the Final
Report of the Panel on the Department of Defense Human Capital Strategy (Hanser et al.,2008), the panel members concluded that O*NET “has the potential to provide a framework for developing much of the common language and functionality desired in a new DoD system.”
