Toward a Methodology for Evaluating the Impact of Situation Awareness on Unit Effectiveness of Dismounted Infantrymen
Abstract
The United States (US) Department of Defense initiated a program in 1997 called the Military Operations in Urban Terrain Advanced Concept Technology Demonstration (MOUT ACTD). MOUT ACTD is a joint US Army-Marine Corps. program led by the US Army Soldier and Biological Chemical Command. The MOUT ACTD's charter is to seek technologies that satisfy 32 jointly derived requirements specific to operations in built up or urban areas. MOUT ACID evaluates these candidate technologies for military utility and transitions the successful candidates to acquisition programs for further development and fielding. One of the determinants of military utility that the MOUT ACTD program uses is situation awareness (SA) - specifically, the influence of SA on individual and force effectiveness as a result of the use of MOUT- related technologies. SA is defined here as the warrior's ability to quickly perceive and then discriminate between facets of the tactical environment, to accurately assess and reassess the where, when and why of that environment, to then know and understand the nature of the tactical situation and to extrapolate near term courses of action based on this understanding. This paper describes the process by which the MOUT ACID program developed and implemented a method for determining the impact of SA on individual and force effectiveness.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Apr 01, 2000
- Accession Number
- ADP010689
Entities
People
- Elizabeth S. Redden
- L. Blackwell