The Impact of Personnel Quality on STINGER Weapon System Performance

Abstract

The Army is currently purchasing many highly sophisticated weapon systems which are designed and developed to achieve certain levels of performance. Since the human is a major component-operator and/or maintainer of a weapon system, he or she should be considered early in the acquisition process. Reverse Engineering is performed on the STINGER weapon system. Using historical performance data on the REDEYE operators who must perform tasks very similar to those performed by the STINGER gunners, and STINGER field tests data, performance estimates under various scenarios are determined. These performance estimates are then related to human capabilities. Keywords: Weapon system performance, Front end analysis, Man/machine analysis, Reverse engineering.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA169235

Entities

People

  • Abraham Nelson
  • David Promisel
  • Edward J. Schmitz

Organizations

  • U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Aircrafts
  • Anti-Aircraft Weapons
  • Army Personnel
  • Contractors
  • Cost Estimates
  • Costs
  • Databases
  • Field Tests
  • Load Monitoring
  • Military Research
  • Probability
  • Reverse Engineering
  • Social Sciences
  • Surface To Air Missiles
  • Weapon Systems
  • Weapons

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