Bureau of Naval Personnel

U.S. Navy's human resources bureau

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Bureau of Naval Personnel

Current logo of the NPC

Founded| 1862; 163 years ago (1862)
Country| United States
Allegiance|  United States of America
Branch|  United States Navy
Type| Bureau
Role| Human Resources
Website| mynavyhr.navy.mil
Commanders
Chief of Naval Personnel| VADM Richard J. Cheeseman Jr.

Military unit

The Bureau of Naval Personnel (BUPERS) in the United States Department of the Navy is similar to the human resources department of a corporation. The bureau provides administrative leadership and policy planning for the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (OPNAV) and the U.S. Navy at large. BUPERS is led by the Chief of Naval Personnel, who serves in an additional duty capacity as the deputy chief of naval operations for personnel, manpower, and training (DCNO, N1).

As of 2024, the Bureau of Naval Personnel serves as a parent command to Navy Personnel Command (NPC). Most BUPERS offices are located in Millington, Tennessee, with a small BUPERS staff directly supporting the CNP in Arlington County, Virginia.

## History

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Naval personnel matters were originally handled by the Secretary of War until the establishment of the Navy Department on April 30, 1798. It was not until 1815 that the Secretary of the Navy took control of personnel matters. In 1861, the Office of Detail was created and functions related to the detailing of officers and the appointment and instruction of volunteer officers, as well as the purchase of ships and related matters were transferred. The Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting was concurrently established to handle enlisted recruiting and service record maintenance.

The Bureau of Navigation was established in 1862 and three years later the Office of Detail was placed under it. In 1889, the Bureau of Equipment and Recruiting transferred its enlisted personnel activities to the Bureau of Navigation as well. On May 13, 1942, the command's name changed to the Bureau of Naval Personnel, and in 1982 it changed to Naval Military Personnel Command. In 1991, the name changed back to the Bureau of Naval Personnel or "BUPERS" for short.[1] NAVPERS stands for Navy Personnel, an acronym often used on official manuals and forms from the Navy Personnel Command.

## Navy Personnel Research, Studies, and Technology

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Navy Personnel Research, Studies, and Technology (NPRST) was a division of the Bureau of Naval Personnel. Since 1946, NPRST or its predecessors have served as a personnel policy laboratory for the Navy. The mission of NPRST was to "To improve Sailor, team, and unit readiness by responsibly delivering innovative science and technology that improves the efficiency and effectiveness of Navy human resource functions and processes."

NPRST can be traced back to 1946, when its predecessor was located in the Washington Navy Yard as Personnel Research Detachment.[2] In 1962, it was formally established as Personnel Research Laboratory. In 1973, SECNAV established the Navy Personnel Research & Development Center (NPRDC) in San Diego, CA “as a centralized organization for managing, coordinating, and conducting R&D in the areas of Manpower, Personnel, Training, and Human Factors Engineering." In the late 1980s, the human factors function was transferred to another R&D lab.

NPRST research has historically covered 11 broad areas covering the entire spectrum of human resources. The Navy Pregnancy and Parenthood Survey collects information about parenthood, family planning, and birth control from both men and women, and gathers additional information about pregnancy from women. This data is not readily available in current Navy databases. It has been administered about every two years since 1988, and was most recently administered in 2010.

As of October 2012, NPRST employed 58 government workers, service men and women, and contractors on site in Millington, Tennessee to complete the mission, with additional contractors located elsewhere for individual projects. NPRST was a fee-for-service entity, meaning that they are not directly funded by Department of Defense budgets; funding for projects is redirected from the sponsor of the project, usually through the use of a Military Interdepartmental Purchase Request (MIPR).

In 1995, the Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC-IV) recommended that NPRDC be disestablished and realigned; the training mission was realigned to NAWCTSD while the manpower and personnel research mission was realigned to Navy Personnel Command. In 1999, NPRST was formally established as a department of NPC. In 2005, the function was realigned from NPC to BUPERS Echelon 2. NPRST has since been closed down by the Navy.

## Chiefs of the Bureau

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Main article: Chief of Naval Personnel

## References

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1. ^ "BUPERS Command History" Archived 2006-09-14 at the Wayback Machine. U.S. Navy Official BUPERS Site Accessed 2006-07-30.
2. ^ Voices from the Past – Command History Post WWII to November 1999 (NPRDC AP-99-4), October 1999

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