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Wilson Shoffner, director of the Army talent management task force.<br\/><br\/> AIM is designed to collect in one database information on soldiers\u2019 job preferences, background, skills and expertise, everything from foreign language proficiency to civilian-acquired skills, Shoffner said. The pilot is a precursor to the Integrated Pay and Personnel System-Army, or IPPSA, which will for the first time allow the Army to look at soldiers and their talents and abilities across all three Army components.<br\/><br\/> This gives the Army &#8220;total visibility and automated ability,&#8221; as it manages almost 1 million people, Shoffner said.<br\/><br\/> &#8220;The big idea is that we can enhance readiness if we can figure out how to maximize everyone\u2019s potential to contribute,&#8221; Shoffner said. &#8220;Some might say it\u2019s about taking care of your best, but it is much more than that. We want to find those talents that may not be readily apparent. We want to find out what people can do, abilities they have that may not be obvious and then are more difficult to manage.&#8221;<br\/><br\/> IPPSA will allow the Army to track a soldier\u2019s abilities in multiple areas and better match them with assignments or jobs as they progress in their careers, said Lt. Gen. James McConville, the deputy chief of staff for personnel (G-1).<br\/><br\/> &#8220;It will fundamentally change the way we do business,&#8221; he said. &#8220;People in the Army are the most important thing we have, so we\u2019re trying to move from an industrial age personnel management system to a 21st Century talent management system.&#8221;<br\/><br\/> Today, the Army manages soldiers primarily based on rank and military occupational specialty, McConville said.<br\/><br\/> In the future, &#8220;we\u2019re going to be able to manage soldiers by their knowledge, skills, abilities and behavior,&#8221; he said. &#8220;What we want to be able to do in the future is know if you have regional expertise, if you speak certain languages, are you a master in cyber, if you fly an aircraft.&#8221;<br\/><br\/> For example, when the 101st Airborne Division was called to deploy to Liberia to help stop the spread of the Ebola virus, the Army could have used a system such as IPPSA to determine how many soldiers were from Liberia, how many spoke the language, or how many had experience dealing with health epidemics, he said.<br\/><br\/> When McConville was a deputy commanding general with the 101st Airborne deployed to Afghanistan, he created a spreadsheet for the Army National Guard and Army Reserve soldiers deployed with them to fill out with their civilian-acquired skills and professions, he said.<br\/><br\/> &#8220;One of the officers was the head of the Texas Highway Department, another one owned a construction company, another one had an engineering firm, another had a design firm, so we were able to identify these knowledge, skills and abilities and then use them outside their MOS,&#8221; McConville said. &#8220;This is what the talent management system IPPSA will do for the Army.&#8221;<br\/><br\/><img decoding=\"async\" data-alignment=\"center\" data-object-id=\"00000157-b05e-d2be-ad7f-befe244d0000\" data-type=\"image\" src=\"http:\/\/snagfilms-a.akamaihd.net\/3e\/5f\/a043d77944e98d04d2af4d746907\/original-1.jpg\"\/><figcaption> <span>Second Lt. Rachel Parker, Field Artillery Basic Officer Leader Course Class 7-13, leads a formation during the Red Leg War. Officers in that class were among the first women able to officially hold positions within direct support field artillery battalions, brigade combat teams and cannon battalions in fires brigades. The Army is launching a sweeping talent management effort to better match the right soldiers with the right jobs.<\/span><\/figcaption><figcaption> <span>Photo Credit: Marie Berberea\/Army<\/span><\/figcaption><br\/> A system such as IPPSA also will better enable the Army to identify its most talented soldiers, McConville said.<br\/><br\/> &#8220;Only 1 percent [of enlisted soldiers] will make sergeant major out of a year group. 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This time, Army Human Resources Command will begin working with the CGSC students using the data provided by the students.<br\/><br\/> In the spring, the Army will work with units to identify their future requirements using AIM so that the Army can match the CGSC officers with the assignments for which they\u2019re best suited, Shoffner said. <br\/><br\/> The eventual goal is to roll over the information collected through the AIM pilots into IPPSA, he said.<br\/><br\/> &#8220;We want to find those leaders that have the ability to lead the Army in the future,&#8221; Shoffner said. <br\/><br\/> By investing in its people and leveraging their skills and talents, &#8220;you will become more efficient and more effective, and that really makes us a more ready Army,&#8221; Shoffner said.<br\/><br\/> In addition to IPPSA and AIM, the Army\u2019s personnel experts also are looking at lateral-entry options for cyber specialists, McConville said. Just like it does for doctors, the Army will explore whether it can bring in cyber specialists at a higher rank.<br\/><br\/><br\/><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Army also is looking at programs that would allow certain soldiers to stay in uniform if they\u2019re performing well, McConville said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The 160th Special Operations Aviation Regiment is a prime example, he said. 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