Manpower/Personnel/Training Technology

Abstract

This program element (PE) conducts applied behavioral and social science research that provides non-materiel solutions to ensure that Soldiers can adapt and excel and improve the Army's capability to fully leverage advances in networks, systems, and technologies as they evolve. This research provides the scientific basis to recruit, select, assign, promote, educate, train, and retain Soldiers and leaders that comprise a ready and relevant Landpower capability. The human science applied research conducted in this program element provides knowledge-products, methods, techniques, and tools that will enable the Army to: select Soldiers who are predicted to perform well in future jobs; assign Soldiers to Military Occupational Specialties (MOS) and jobs that better match their skills and abilities; retain an effective career force through improved strategies and behavioral incentives to influence Soldiers to stay in the Army for longer periods of time; accelerate the development of leader critical thinking and interpersonal skills through virtual practice so that junior leaders are more adaptable and prepared for uncertain, rapidly changing missions; develop innovative training strategies for complex battle command skills in network-enabled environments; and design training tools for dismounted squad leadership and team maneuver with ground Soldier systems technologies. Additional research is focused on training techniques and procedures that make it easier for trainers and training developers to rapidly respond to changes in mission or operational requirements and provide a more synergistic training and education process (e.g., automated and improved diagnostics, coaching and mentoring, performance measures, and feedback methods. The cited work is consistent with the Director, Defense Research and Engineering Strategic Plan, the Army Modernization Strategy, and the Army Science and Technology Master Plan. This project is managed by the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI), Arlington, VA.

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Document Details

Document Type
R2 Budgetary Justification
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2014
Source ID
0602785A_2_2040_PB_2014
Change Summary Explanation
Service Agency Name
Army

Entities

Organizations

  • United States Army

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Education
  • Engineering
  • Environment
  • Learning
  • Manpower
  • Mentoring
  • Military Occupational Specialties
  • Military Research
  • Motivation
  • Psychology
  • Social Sciences
  • Students
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Thinking
  • Trainees
  • Training

Readers

  • Military Leadership and Professional Education.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation

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