MANPRINT (Manpower and Personnel Integration) Support of Aquila, the Army's Remotely Piloted Vehicle: Lessons Learned

Abstract

The U.S. Army Research Institute (ARI) Systems Research laboratory (SRL) supports the Army's manpower and personnel integration (MANPRINT) initiative in the testing and development of new systems. Operational Testing II (OT II) of the Aquila Remotely Piloted Vehicle revealed disappointing system performance thought to be due in part to manpower, personnel, training , and human factors problems. The SRL MANPRINT Task Force, headed by the Fort Hood Field Unit, was asked by Headquarters Training and Doctrine Command and the U.S. Army Field Artillery School to help identify the problems and recommend ways to resolve them. The SRL Task Force examined operator and maintainer MANPRINT concerns (e.g., target detection, mission planning, and maintenance manpower) and was able to recommend concrete ways to minimize the impact of these problems on total system performance. Keywords: Operational testing, Human factors, Remotely piloted vehicles.

Document Details

• Document Type: Technical Report
• Publication Date: Jun 01, 1989
• Accession Number: ADA211207

Entities

People

• Edwin. R. Smootz
• John E. Stewart Ii
• Nigel R. Nicholson

Organizations

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

Tags

Communities of Interest

• Air Platforms
• Autonomy
• Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

• Aircrafts
• Army Personnel
• Artillery
• Business Administration
• Cognitive Workload
• Ground Control Stations
• Human Factors Engineering
• Human Systems Integration
• Jet Propulsion
• Lessons Learned
• Remotely Piloted Vehicles
• Social Sciences
• Target Acquisition
• Test And Evaluation
• Test Equipment
• Unmanned Aerial Vehicles
• Unmanned Vehicles

Fields of Study

• Education

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