The Expert Team of Experts Approach to Command-and-Control (C(2)) Organizations,

Abstract

This paper presents a concept which helps in understanding the Command and Control (C2) process associated with a well-trained team of military commanders each being an expert in problem-solving in his particular tactical warfare area, and has been delegated C2 responsibility and authority over his resources by his superior commander. It is argued that due to his individual training a commander develops a principal expert model (PEM) of the warfare area in which he has specialized, which allows him to make superior tactical C2 decisions based upon the tactical information available to him. In addition, as a consequence of centralized mission planning and team-training of the entire C2 organization, each commander develops aggregated mutual expert models (MEM) of the PEM's of the commanders that he strongly interacts with and competes for common team resources. This concept is referred to as the expert team of experts (ETOE) methodology. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1981
Accession Number
ADA111985

Entities

People

  • Michael Athans

Organizations

  • Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aircrafts
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Artillery
  • Command And Control
  • Computers
  • Databases
  • Game Theory
  • Mathematical Models
  • Military Commanders
  • Military Organizations
  • Naval Warfare
  • Operations Research
  • Radio Communications
  • Tactical Warfare
  • Training
  • War Games
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Enterprise Information Systems Architecture and Joint Command Capability Interoperability Support.
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control