Warfighter decision making performance analysis as an investment priority driver

David J. Thornley; David F. Dean; James C. Kirk

doi:10.1117/12.849927

30 April 2010 Warfighter decision making performance analysis as an investment priority driver

David J. Thornley, David F. Dean, James C. Kirk

Proceedings Volume 7705, Modeling and Simulation for Defense Systems and Applications V; 77050L (2010) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.849927
Event: SPIE Defense, Security, and Sensing, 2010, Orlando, Florida, United States

Abstract

Estimating the relative value of alternative tactics, techniques and procedures (TTP) and information systems requires measures of the costs and benefits of each, and methods for combining and comparing those measures. The NATO Code of Best Practice for Command and Control Assessment explains that decision making quality would ideally be best assessed on outcomes. Lessons learned in practice can be assessed statistically to support this, but experimentation with alternate measures in live conflict is undesirable. To this end, the development of practical experimentation to parameterize effective constructive simulation and analytic modelling for system utility prediction is desirable. The Land Battlespace Systems Department of Dstl has modeled human development of situational awareness to support constructive simulation by empirically discovering how evidence is weighed according to circumstance, personality, training and briefing. The human decision maker (DM) provides the backbone of the information processing activity associated with military engagements because of inherent uncertainty associated with combat operations. To develop methods for representing the process in order to assess equipment and non-technological interventions such as training and TTPs we are developing componentized or modularized timed analytic stochastic model components and instruments as part of a framework to support quantitative assessment of intelligence production and consumption methods in a human decision maker-centric mission space. In this paper, we formulate an abstraction of the human intelligence fusion process from the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory's (Dstl's) INCIDER model to include in our framework, and synthesize relevant cost and benefit characteristics.

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David J. Thornley, David F. Dean, and James C. Kirk "Warfighter decision making performance analysis as an investment priority driver", Proc. SPIE 7705, Modeling and Simulation for Defense Systems and Applications V, 77050L (30 April 2010); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.849927

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