Human Social Culture Behavior (HSCB) Modeling Applied Research

Abstract

The OSD 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 select effective courses of action in the full range of military operations. Program research will enhance population-centric intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) capabilities for understanding the increasingly complex global environment to address national strategic challenges such as instability, aggression, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, and violent extremism. In three integrated program elements (PE), 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 improve methods for collecting data that will facilitate model development and enhance forecasting and analysis capabilities. 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, facilitate subsequent model development and validation, and address emerging data types and sources.

Document Details

• Document Type: R2 Budgetary Justification
• Publication Date: Oct 01, 2014
• Source ID: 0602670D8Z_2_0400_PB_2014
• Change Summary Explanation: FY 2014 baseline adjustments are reflective of DoD priorities and requirements.
• Service Agency Name: Office of Secretary Of Defense

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Autonomy
• Counter WMD
• Engineered Resilient Systems
• Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Delphi Method
• Human Behavior
• Human-Computer Interaction
• Humanitarian Assistance
• Instability
• Machine Learning
• Military Occupational Specialties
• Military Operations
• Military Personnel
• Models
• Situational Awareness
• Social Media
• Social Sciences
• Terrorism
• Terrorists
• Test And Evaluation
• Weapons Of Mass Destruction

Readers

• Database Systems and Applications
• Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
• Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.