A number of data bases and information systems have been designed and implemented to address various facets of submarine and surface training. These, heretofore, independent systems provide support for management of funding, resources, courses plus current and projected configuration data for fleet Combat Control Systems. The Submarine Training Master Planning System (STMPS) is being developed to selectively integrate the data collected and managed by these existing systems into a comprehensive, cohesive system that will provide senior managers with the tools to assess the current state of the submarine training community, make maximum use of resources through re-programming, perform comparative and "what-if" analyses and forecast long-term submarine training resource requirements. A prototype STMPS is projected to become operational in early 1989.

STMPS is being implemented using a variety of "off-the-shelf" computer hardware and software products to provide standard report generation, canned query capability, business graphics, facility layouts, electronic mail and ad hoc querying. Even the data is "off the shelf". In virtually every case, the STMPS development team is using data and/or reports that are currently available within the submarine training community. What is new however, is that the STMPS development team is screening this data, matching "similar" data from independent systems and normalizing the data so that it can be integrated and provided to senior managers for planning purposes.

This paper will review the STMPS charter, document the STMPS management, development and user organizations, describe the methodology being used to develop STMPS and present the capabilities that STMPS users can expect to receive.