SBIR-STTR Award

We propose investigating the utility of Assembly, our existing personnel and team capability analysis and matchmaking software, to 1) support the Air Forces mission to develop and field the most lethal force possible 2) help with pilot retention. The Air Force builds thousands of pilot, maintenance, and support services teams each year, and the success of those teams is determined in large part by whether the right people with the right ranks, skills, qualifications, and experiences are in each role. Building government contracting bid teams is almost identical. To win the contract you need to:Identify the hard (e.g. being a Veteran Owned Small Business) and soft (e.g. experience doing similar work) evaluation criteria in an RFPIdentify how many of the criteria you can meet aloneIdentify gapsSearch for individuals and companies that you can partner with so that together the team meets all the hard and soft requirementsAssembly helps government contractors do the above and we believe Assembly can help the Air Force with their staffing and pilot retention needs.pilot retention,Team building,Personnel development,Manpower planning,Strategic staffing,Natural Language Processing,

Assembly was built to 1) analyze and predict the capabilities and qualifications of individuals 2) create capability profiles for companies based on the capabilities and qualifications of their people 3) perform a similar analysis on requirements documents 4) identify which company, or combinations of companies, could meet those requirements. In this Phase II we propose extending the functionality: Red Line Toll: Assess and predict the diversity and volume of skills and capabilities that people within a unit need to have for the unit to perform all missions Blue Line Tool: Assess and predict the diversity and volume of skills and capabilities that people within a unit have Gap Analysis Tool: Identifies instances where the demand for a skill or capability exceeds or is close to exceeding the availability of that skill or capability Red/Blue projection Tool: Projects changes in both the Red and Blue line Pilot Retention Tool: a pilot's likelihood of leaving and what is driving their decision Billet Optimization Tool: Analyzes the pool of pilots, the pool of billets that need to be staffed and creates a pilot-to-billet assignments list that is optimized for retention