Collaborative Tool for Command and Control Team Effectiveness Studies: Experimental Test of Interventions to Improve Performance in Command and Control

Abstract

The Air and Space Operations Center (AOC) is the most complex weapons system in the United States Air Force (USAF) inventory (Garrity, Morley, Rodriguez, & Tossell, 2004). It is important for potential AOC operators to receive proper training in order to effectively accomplish the mission. This study had two goals. The first was to determine if an inexpensive, low fidelity strategy game, such as Airstrike, could be used to provide AOC familiarization training. The second was to experimentally test pathfinder network scaling methods in its ability to measure learning. Analysis of the gaming technology and SMARTboard showed that both were successful in improving team performance. Measuring knowledge structures using pathfinder was also shown to be a useful adjunct to performance-based methods of assessing training already employed.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 2008
Accession Number
ADA496735

Entities

People

  • Chad Tossell

Organizations

  • United States Air Force Academy

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Engineered Resilient Systems
  • Human Systems
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Aircrafts
  • Applied Psychology
  • Behavioral Sciences
  • Command And Control
  • Education
  • Information Systems
  • Intelligence Surveillance And Reconnaissance
  • Military Science
  • Psychology
  • Situational Awareness
  • Space Operations
  • Students
  • Teamwork
  • Training
  • United States
  • United States Air Force Academy

Readers

  • Aerospace logistics and air mobility.
  • Military History
  • Military Training and Readiness Simulation

Technology Areas

  • Fully Networked C3
  • Fully Networked C3 - Command and Control
  • Space