Training-based Requirements for Semi-Automated Forces

"The training of soldiers, leaders and units to win in combat will remain the Army's single most important task"-US Army Fiscal Year 1993 Posture Statement (quoted in Military Review, May 1992). The Department of Defense spends an estimated $5 billion per year on training. Simulations can aid training, but there is no reliable method for generating simulation requirement from training objectives, nor are there productive automated aids. Yet people perform the task, some with high degrees of expertise. We propose research to develop a well defined method for performing the task. We also propose to construct a knowledge based system to support portions of the task. In combination, this can be expected to improve efficiency and effectiveness in the training-objective-to-performance-requirement task.