Description of Selected Army Staff Functions: Targets for Planning Aids
Abstract
This research note identifies division level coordinating staff functions, and analyzes their contribution to tactical decision making. The coordinating staff functions of intelligence (G2), operations (G3), and logistics (G4), are decomposed into tasks and subtasks. The tasks are evaluated as to importance to the decision making process, and as to amenability to the application of advanced information processing, including the use of artificial intelligence techniques. Based upon Army experts' advice, and upon the professional judgement of the authors, functional tasks which were considered to have high priority for human performance enhancement were selected and put in order of priority. The top six priority tasks were further decomposed into subtasks to better identify opportunities for human performance enhancement. The six staff tasks for early human performance enhancement are: analyzing tactical courses of action, analyzing battlefield areas, analyzing tactical capabilities, evaluating the enemy threat, analyzing logistic capabilities, and developing tactical courses of action.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jul 01, 1988
- Accession Number
- ADA197449
Entities
People
- Albert E. Murray
- Charles F. Carter Jr.
- Mark A. Archer
Organizations
- Leidos