2026 marks a new era for Waterfront Training Solutions. Expanded capabilities. Enhanced results.

Design a mission ready workforce that aligns billets, skills and career paths with your real operational requirements, optimizing organizational performance by strategically aligning your workforce with your mission objectives. Our services provide the essential data and frameworks needed for smart decision-making, compliance, and long-term talent growth.

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Build the right force, not just more headcount

Workforce Management and Strategy helps you define exactly who you need, where you need them and when. We translate mission objectives into clear billets, skill profiles and development paths so every role supports current and future operations.

Benefits

What this service delivers

Workforce Requirements Assessment

A Workforce Requirements Assessment identifies the precise human capital profile needed to meet future strategic goals and maximize operational effectiveness. We look beyond headcount to define the right blend of skills, roles, and experience required for mission readiness.

  • Value Proposition: Ensures your workforce capacity directly supports your strategic plan, eliminating costly skill shortfalls or personnel surpluses.
  • Key Outcome: A data-driven roadmap for hiring, training, and talent placement that guarantees optimal mission support.

Skill Gap Analysis

Our Skill Gap Analysis is a targeted service that measures the difference between your team’s current capabilities and the skills required to meet current and emerging operational demands.

  • Value Proposition: Provides actionable intelligence to address competency deficiencies quickly and accurately, ensuring your teams are immediately prepared for evolving missions.
  • Key Outcome: Targeted interventions, such as specific training programs or strategic hiring plans, designed to efficiently close capability gaps and enhance collective performance.

Workforce Classification

Workforce Classification is the foundational structure for all human resource and manpower activities. We codify and standardize your work, people, and training requirements, creating a consistent, quantitative language across your organization.

  • Value Proposition: Establishes the essential framework (like job codes and skill IDs) used by successful organizations (DoD, medical, military) to efficiently identify, track, and manage every personnel requirement.
  • Key Outcome: A standardized, reliable system that underpins accurate recruiting, budgeting, compensation, and personnel deployment. We specialize in this complex codification, setting us apart from most providers.

Career Development

Career Development focuses on creating clear, structured pathways for employee growth within your organization. This service aligns individual aspirations with long-term organizational strategy.

  • Value Proposition: Enhances talent retention, boosts employee morale, and builds a consistent internal pipeline of qualified candidates for leadership roles, ensuring sustained organizational success.
  • Key Outcome: Transparent career paths that empower employees and guarantee your future workforce will be both motivated and highly skilled.

Acquisition Manpower and Training Requirements (AM&TR)

AM&TR specifically defines and documents the personnel, skills, and training infrastructure necessary to operate, maintain, and sustain new weapon systems, technology, or major program acquisitions.

  • Value Proposition: Integrates workforce planning into the acquisition lifecycle, preventing critical capability shortfalls once new assets are fielded.
  • Key Outcome: A validated set of manpower billets, skill requirements, and a detailed training pipeline, ensuring your personnel are ready before the new system becomes operational.

Process

How we work with your team

Ready to design a mission ready workforce

Partner with WTS to turn manpower questions into a clear, data driven plan that supports every stage of your mission.

Schedule a mission brief

Tell us about your program, workforce or cyber challenge and our team will follow up with a focused response and clear next steps.