Training Users' Cognitive Readiness for Combat Command using an Intelligent Tutor

There is an obvious and urgent incentive to improve the abilities of military leaders. The problem we address in this proposal is how to provide useful training in a simulated decision environment, in order to improve the situation awareness of leaders.There also appears to be a move towards more distributed command and control, thus, the need is to provide training that will help commanders build situation awareness skills for working with distributed teams. The opportunity is to apply Decision Nettechnology to the requirement for training situation awareness in leaders in a digital environment that mimics the essential characteristics of a real battlefield. Decision Net is a human facilitated decision game that can be delivered over the net. Thusyou get very effective training at a low cost and delivered frequently. In addition, it can be used to experiment with new processes and new decision support tools at the concept stage prior to being implemented.