Utilization of Human Resources Data in Battlefield Automated Systems

Abstract

This volume reports on how well human resources data have been used in the development of US army command, control, communications, and intelligence (C3I) systems. It makes recommendations for increasing the utility of such data. The findings and recommendations reported here come from a study carried out with the following objectives: 1) To examine the Army system development cycle from the proponent's point of view; 2) To identify points within the cycle where human resource data would have a pronounced impacts on operational concepts, systems definition requirements, training requirements, doctrine development, and other aspects of the proponent's role; 3) To identify ways of improving the development and use of human resources data; and 4) To identify the technology gaps in the problem of incorporating human resources data in the system development cycle. The use of human resources data was studied in the development cycles of two C3I systems: the Tactical Operations System (TOS) and the Stand-Off Target Acquisition system (SOTAS). The xm1 Abrams Main Battle tank was also examined in order to provide a comparison between weapons systems development and C3I system development. Keywords: Man computer interface; and Tactical data systems.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 17, 1981
Accession Number
ADA167860

Entities

People

  • Erica Kirchner-dean
  • John J. Kane
  • Theodore T. Bean

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Business Administration
  • Computer Programming
  • Databases
  • Employment
  • Human Factors Engineering
  • Human-Machine Interfaces
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Job Analysis
  • Management Personnel
  • Organizational Structure
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Systems Engineering
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Training Devices

Readers

  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Life Cycle Cost Analysis
  • Munitions and Ordnance Engineering

Technology Areas

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