Human Social Culture Behavior (HSCB) Modeling Applied Research

Abstract

The Human Social Culture Behavior (HSCB) Modeling Program is a vertically integrated effort to research, develop, and transition technologies, tools, and systems to programs of record and users in need. The Program exists to optimize U.S. forces’ ability to perform population-centric sensing, understand behaviors driven by social and cultural variables, and take effective courses of action in the full range of military operations. Program research will enhance intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities for understanding the Irregular Warfare environment and meeting the challenges of instability and violent extremism. In three integrated program elements (PEs), the Program will conduct applied research, mature and demonstrate advanced technology, and develop transitionable methods, technology, tools and prototypes. Work under PE 0602670D8Z will focus on developing an applied science base, to include validated theory and methods, along with knowledge products and resources to support sociocultural behavior data collection, analysis and forecasting of sociocultural behavior, course of action planning, and effects analysis. Research will address needs in two areas: modeling, and data. It will develop and validate theoretical constructions, generate knowledge products, and develop stand-alone computational models of sociocultural behavior; and develop improved methods for valid collection of quality sociocultural data that will facilitate subsequent model development and validation. The Program will ensure that supported research is clearly tied to warfighters and their needs. Human behavior based theory, knowledge products, and stand-alone models will support development of software to help users represent, understand, and forecast sociocultural behavior at strategic, operational, and tactical levels. Improved data collection methods will help build the sociocultural science base and facilitate subsequent model development and validation and address emerging data types and sources, such as social media.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2013
Source ID
0602670D8Z_2_0400_PB_2013
Change Summary Explanation
Service Agency Name
Office of Secretary Of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Delphi Method
  • Human Behavior
  • Human-Computer Interaction
  • International Security
  • Media
  • Military Operations
  • Military Personnel
  • Models
  • Situational Awareness
  • Social Media
  • Terrorism
  • Terrorists
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training
  • Validation
  • Visualizations

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Systems Analysis and Design

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