The U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command Soldier and Squad Performance Optimization (S2PO) Science and Technology Strategy

Abstract

The Soldier and Squad Performance Optimization (S2PO) strategy was designed to actualize the S and T focus areas of the Army Operating Concept including human performance optimization, logistics optimization, autonomy-enabled systems and information todecision. The strategy was also designed to provide solutions to the three major risks described in the Army Human Dimension Strategy that center around governance challenges, unity of effort, and a common operating picture for ongoing human dimension efforts. The S2PO strategy promotes innovative and collaborative S and T initiatives across the Army to deliver cutting edge knowledge, equipment and enhancing technologies (materiel and non-materiel) to empower Soldiers and squads with optimally integrated knowledge, skills, abilities, equipment and technologies to help them achieve superior individual and team performance. The S2PO strategy establishes a vision of Ensuring the U.S. Soldier is the decisive edge on the battlefield through cognitive/physical dominance and social intelligence, optimal integration of the Soldier with his/her equipment, technologies and platforms, and innovative and collaborative S and T with clearly defined and established transition paths. It consists of a single strategic objective and four comprehensive and interacting Lines of Effort (LOE), with detailed supporting objectives. LOEs 1-3 are technically focused and provide a framework of the S and T investments needed to address capability gaps in Soldier and Squad performance and will guide the development of execution roadmaps associated with the S2PO strategy. The fourth LOE focuses on the enabling aspects of this strategy.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
May 01, 2016
Accession Number
AD1052207

Entities

People

  • Richard P. Haddad
  • Robert R. Roussel
  • Rose Guerra

Organizations

  • United States Army Soldier Systems Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Autonomy
  • Biomedical
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Cognitive Science
  • Cognitive Systems Engineering
  • Control Systems
  • Department Of Defense
  • Energy Harvesting
  • Engineering
  • Human Systems Integration
  • Military Research
  • Motor Skills
  • Psychology
  • Research Facilities
  • Systems Engineering
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Training
  • Unmanned Systems
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Defense Acquisition Program Management
  • Joint Military Operations and Doctrine.
  • Military Science and Technology Research and Modernization.