The Effects of Incorporating Individual Factors within Target Engagement and Decision-Making Shooting Performance of Elite Shooters
Abstract
This report summarizes the current results of a U.S. Army Combat Capabilities Development Command (DEVCOM) Analysis Center (DAC) Human Systems Integration Divisions effort to determine support or non-support of hypothesized relationships between individual factors and shooting performance. Data and analyses using a sample of elite shooters from the U.S. Army Marksmanship Unit (USAMU) suggest promising results for the future of such research within the shooting research community. Findings suggest that accounting for individual factors based on cognitive, physiological, psychological, anthropometric, and other measures in target engagement performance, in addition to experimental variables, increases the explained variance of the model. A higher-explained variance yields more robust data sets with measurably more information about the characteristics of the individual shooter when considering shooting performance and novel or next-generation weapons. Data was collected in August 2022 at Fort Benning, Georgia, with a group of six USAMU shooters.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Aug 01, 2023
- Accession Number
- AD1207923
Entities
People
- David Scribner
- Frank Morelli
- Maria Talarico