Team decision making training and rehearsal exemplar for the air and space operations center (AOC)

Military forces have changed from a train-alert-operate paradigm to a alert-train-operate one. AOCs require a training and rehearsal capability that allows rapid proficiency on Mission Essential Competencies (MECs), supporting competencies, knowledge and skills. MYMIC LLC, teamed with MAK Technologies, proposes providing this training and rehearsal capability through the AOC Lifecycle Training Capability (ALTC). The ALTC will be comprised of three components: a Collaborative Information & Training Environment (CITE) that leverages a collaborative information environment to support training , a Training Management & Collaboration System (TMCS) that is a hybrid between a training management system and a community of practice, and MÄK’s Dynamic Training Cell (DTC) team training simulation environment: QuickStrike. Included in the ALTC will be a scenario-mission hierarchy. Scenario-missions will be recommended to support MEC-related proficiency for various phases of the alert-train-operate paradigm. The hierarchy will allow AOC individuals and teams to choose, based on their training requirements, specific, short or long scenario-missions for execution within the ALTC. MYMIC will investigate use of QuickStrike capabilities to provide performance measures back to ALTC users. In addition, MYMIC will investigate use of social network analysis to provide critical information to AOC leaders and performance measures to ALTC users.