Assessments of IT's Support of C2

Abstract

The goal of information superiority presents an analytic challenge: how to assess information technologies' support to command and control. The assessment difficulty lies in the cognitive domain that the technology supports, and identifying those features of the cognitive domain that lend themselves to quantification and objective assessments. This paper describes solutions to this problem. First, we survey the Army's traditional human-in-the-loop IT assessment methods, and identify their limitations. Next, we discuss M&S' relative advantages in assessing IT support of C2. Our major argument emphasizes three essential requirements: definition, representation and objective measurement of key C2 products, specifically of situation awareness and situation understanding of tactical decision makers.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jun 01, 2009
Accession Number
ADA503086

Entities

People

  • Alex Pogel
  • James Davidson
  • Jeffrey A. Smith

Organizations

  • New Mexico State University

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Cyber
  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Space

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Artillery
  • Cognition
  • Command And Control
  • Department Of Defense
  • Engineering
  • Failure Mode And Effect Analysis
  • Information Processing
  • Information Systems
  • Lessons Learned
  • New Mexico
  • Position (Location)
  • Psychology
  • Situational Awareness
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Unmanned Aerial Systems
  • Warfare

Readers

  • Team-Based Human-Centered Cognitive Task Decision Making and Information Performance.

Technology Areas

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