Optimized Manning and Crew Design Tools for Future Surface and Undersea Platforms

Manpower is a huge driver of Life Cycle Cost and Total Ownership Cost and cannot be ignored in the acquisition of new materiel systems. To maintain high levels of mission effectiveness while reducing the required manpower Human Systems Integration (HSI) must be an integral part of the acquisition, requirements, and design processes. HSI can be utilized to bring manpower analyses closer to systems engineering analyses, ensuring that these technologies best support the crewmembers that must interact with them. The overall goal of this three phase SBIR effort is to design and develop a flexible framework and architecture for a suite of optimized manning and crew design tools that can be utilized to assess HSI aspects of new or updated ship designs. Phase I tasks include gathering required CONOPS for a selected surface or undersea platform and associated empirical human performance data to leverage, extend, and integrate selected current tools, models, data and algorithms.