Accession Number:

ADA230104

Title:

Tactical Planning Workstation Functional Description

Descriptive Note:

Final rept. Dec 1988-May 1990,

Corporate Author:

SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORP LEAVENWORTH KS

Personal Author(s):

• Flanagan, James P.
• Fallesen, Jon J.

Report Date:

1990-09-01

Pagination or Media Count:

49.0

Abstract:

This report describes the features of the Tactical Planning Workstation. The Workstation was developed as a platform for prototyping staff information an decision aids and conducting research on staff performance. This functional description gives an overview of the capabilities of the Workstation and tells how a staff user would interact with the system to perform general information processing tasks or specific tactical planning tasks. The report includes descriptions of the hardware, networking, input and control techniques, data base, displays, and functions of the Workstation. The Workstation was developed by the Experimental Development, Demonstration and Integration Center or EDDIC. Related reports are available on detailed software documentation and user interface evaluation. The Tactical Planning Workstation is being used to conduct soldier performance research on choices of tactical courses of action.

Descriptors:

• *TEST AND EVALUATION
• COMPUTER PROGRAM DOCUMENTATION
• CONTROL
• ARMY PERSONNEL
• PERFORMANCE(HUMAN)
• INFORMATION PROCESSING
• INTEGRATION
• PLANNING
• USER NEEDS
• WORK STATIONS
• DECISION AIDS
• DATA BASES
• INTERFACES

Subject Categories:

• Computer Programming and Software
• Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering and Control of Production Systems
• Military Operations, Strategy and Tactics
• Human Factors Engineering and Man Machine Systems
• Command, Control and Communications Systems

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE