Project Azriel Next Generation Cognitive Training (PA NextGen)

The US Air Force is the most technologically advanced fighting force in the world, yet the Air Force’s greatest asset is its human capital. The increasing complexity of today’s operational environment places significant cognitive demands on the Air Force’s knowledge workers. The ability to process information and solve problems is vital for success in many Air Force jobs. Given the importance of attention and focus to the success of Air Force missions, having the capability to maximize an individual’s success in processing information would be highly useful. Importantly, recent cognitive research demonstrates that constructs that were once thought to be fixed, can in fact, be improved through training, and arduous, distributed cognitive training of a modest duration can produce substantial gains in brain processing capacity and create transfer effects after training. Our project, Project Azriel Next Generation Cognitive Training (PA NextGen), promises to provide rigorous cognitive training and declarative knowledge training so warfighters can acquire knowledge more quickly. Warfighters increase their cognitive capacity and build declarative knowledge immersed in an exciting and competitive serious game.