Research Methods for Advanced Warfighting Experiments.

Abstract

Advanced Warfighting Experiments (AWEs) typify the Army's emerging need for more pragmatic and responsive research methods to address the changing climate of military research and improve future force capability. Formative force improvement enables or mediates the summative objective--a more capable force. To help achieve the primary objective, this report recommends the AWEs adapt formative evaluation methods that focus on exploration, explanation, and improvement. This report identifies a set of key fundamental and formative method issues for the AWEs and provides corresponding method recommendations for more reliable and useful AWE findings. The report's method recommendations embed a mechanism of expanded AWE evaluation teams that implement lessons learned into "living products" for Army-wide Force XXI efforts.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1996
Accession Number
ADA319414

Entities

People

  • Carl W. Lickteig
  • David W. Bessemer
  • Jeffery R. Witsken
  • Scott E. Graham
  • William M. Parry

Organizations

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

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Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • C4I
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Application Software
  • Cognition
  • Command And Control
  • Command And Control Systems
  • Control Systems
  • Databases
  • Digital Information
  • Employment
  • Information Systems
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Research
  • Military Science
  • National Security
  • Psychology
  • Situational Awareness
  • Task Performance And Analysis
  • Test And Evaluation

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.
  • Military History / Militaries and War Studies
  • Systems Analysis and Design