Scalability and Reusability Methods for Intelligent Tutors and Job Performance Aids for the Maintenance of Reduced Manning Ships

"The focus of this Phase I SBIR effort will be to research and develop a conceptual design for an integrated training and job performance aid system to target maintenance tasks aboard the reduced manning ships that are the future of the U.S. Navy. Theultimate tool that will result from this effort will be called the Maintenance Assistance and Training (MAT) package. This tool will include software modules that function, as both on demand training materials as well as real time job performance aids forspecific maintenance tasks. The goal of MAT will be to provide an extensible software system composed of multiple levels of maintenance tasks (component to platform level) that can be utilized by maintenance personnel to not only improve their ability toperform required maintenance tasks, but also to function in a real time maintenance situation and provide the information required to perform the maintenance tasks.The final MAT system will be easily extensible to include new systems introduced to the ship, multiple levels of maintenance tasking and be capable of being deployed on reduced manning ships with minimal impact to the ship's computing resources. The research and development effort undertaken in Phase I of this SBIR has many potential benefits to both DoD and commercial organizations. Through the extensive research into creating an on-demand training and job performance aid system that isscalable, with reusable content that