The Manpower community does not own manpower resources. The functional community controls them. Manpower’s role is to help the Functional Managers at the local and headquarters levels manage those resources. Air Force End Strength is the ultimate constraint on how many authorizations may be funded. To the degree that the aggregation of all requirements established by manpower determinants exceed End Strength, those resources can only be placed on the UMD as unfunded requirements. The unfunded requirement documents the need and can be used to justify funding in the future.

If the work being done is included in the Process Oriented Description, or POD, that is part of the other work center’s manpower determinant, then only the owning work center may receive credit for doing that work. If you are performing a workload that is present on another work center’s POD, that work is considered “assumed.” All assumed workload should be eliminated, if possible. If it the work is not included in another work center’s POD, nor is it in your POD, then it must be directed by higher headquarters to qualify for a variance. We will be happy to classify any workload you are performing to determine whether it qualifies for a variance.