Evaluating Mission Training Fidelity Requirements: Examining Key Issues in Deployability and Trainability
Abstract
Due to infrequent training while deployed, warfighters skills can decay, thus creating a training gap. Deployed training has historically been hindered by restrictions to live-fly training opportunities due to factors such as ops-tempo, airspace/range restrictions, security issues, alert requirements, and wartime rules of engagement. In order to maintain high proficiency and readiness levels, changes are needed in standard training programs while warfighters are deployed. The United States Air Force's Distributed Mission Operations (DMO) concept has become critical to warfighter training across all mission areas. Despite an increased reliance on DMO training, a deployable DMO training capability does not exist to provide the critical training opportunities previously unavailable during extended deployments. Moreover, while researchers have discussed and described the tradespace associated with varying levels of physical and functional fidelity, opportunities to conduct controlled studies to examine and quantify how much of what kind of fidelity for skills improvement and maintenance are few and far between. This presentation will describe a series of research studies underway at the Warfighter Readiness Research Division in Mesa Arizona designed to assess within-training and training transfer to live operations for both individual and tactical teams, with varying levels of fidelity in the training environment. These studies are examining a variety of specific parameters associated with achieving and maintaining combat readiness and proficiency. We conclude with discussion of our longer-term plan to demonstrate and quantify the impact of deployed training and rehearsal environment on transfer to the operational environment and to subsequent retraining intervals.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jun 01, 2006
- Accession Number
- ADA473338
Entities
People
- Brian T. Schreiber
- David Greschke
- Jeffry Bell
- Michael France
- Robert Rickard
- Winston Bennett Jr.