Developing an Adaptability Training Strategy and Policy for the DoD

Abstract

The Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense (Readiness) asked IDA to support it in the development of an adaptability training strategy and to provide suggested revisions to current training policy to implement such a strategy Additionally and in parallel IDA was to assist in the development and execution of a related proof-of-concept experiment This tasking came as a follow-on to a previous study IDA conducted that found given the uncertainty of current and future threats, the key skill or attribute that individuals, units, and teams of commanders and leaders need to acquire is adaptability In the original study, IDA developed a specific model of adaptability. The operable capacity to bring about an effective response to an altered situation." Thus, we consider adaptability to be a metaskill that requires the integration of both cognitive and relational skills. This model is depicted in figure S-1.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Oct 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA492056

Entities

People

  • Waldo D. Freeman
  • William R. Burns Jr.

Organizations

  • Institute for Defense Analyses

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Asymmetric Warfare
  • Contingency Operations (Military)
  • Doctrine
  • Employment
  • Instructors
  • Lessons Learned
  • Military Education
  • Military Science
  • Military Training
  • National Security
  • Personnel Management
  • Psychology
  • Students
  • Tactical Training
  • Trainees
  • War Colleges
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Database Systems and Applications
  • Systems Analysis and Design
  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.