Flexible methods for future force concept development / J.R. Gossman [and others].

Format:

Book

Government document

Contributor:

Gossman, J. R.

U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences

Series:

Research report (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences) ; 1839.

Research report ; 1839

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Military art and science--Decision making--Technological innovations.

Military art and science.

Soldiers--Training of--United States.

Soldiers.

Military education--United States.

Military education.

Knowledge management.

Knowledge Management.

Soldiers--Training of.

United States.

Medical Subjects:

Knowledge Management.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (79 unnumbered pages)

Place of Publication:

Alexandria, VA : U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, [2005]

Summary:

One key to the Army's success in transformation will be a solid process for concept development. The Army needs a means to generate, elaborate, refine, describe, test, and validate new concepts relating to doctrine, tactics, techniques, procedures, unit and team organization, job allocation, training, leader development, and other aspects of technology integration. One approach is to construct an environment that transforms the scale in which situations can be presented realistically and to develop, within that environment, a set of tools that can be used to explore selected command group functional performance issues in a methodical fashion. Two tools, a scaled-world tool and a concept-development tool, were designed and developed. In addition, six scaled-world events and 10 concept-development sessions were produced. The scaled-world events and concept-development sessions were formatively evaluated. Based on the evaluation results, it appears that both tools have value for concept identification and concept development. Feedback on both tools was very positive and generally met the project objectives. In addition, future directions for improvements to and use of the synthetic task components are discussed in terms of short-term and long-term requirements and possibilities.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed April 10, 2009).

"August 2005."

Includes bibliographical references (page 17).

Other Format:

Flexible methods for future force concept development

OCLC:

318454025