Accession Number:

ADA566372

Title:

Reimaging Workload Task Analysis: Applications to Training System Design

Descriptive Note:

Journal article

Corporate Author:

NAVAL AIR WARFARE CENTER TRAINING SYSTEMS DIV ORLANDO FL

Personal Author(s):

• Duke, Dennis
• Sims, Dana E.
• Pharmer, James

Report Date:

2010-01-01

Pagination or Media Count:

23.0

Abstract:

Todays warfighter performs more complex, cognitively demanding tasks than ever before. Despite the need for more extensive training to perform these tasks, acquisition professionals are often tasked to reduce training budgets and identify optimal tradeoffs. Tools are available to help them make these decisions that provide empirical evidence of how performance and mission requirements will be affected by design decisions. This article offers insights into the utility of implementing a Workload Task Analysis WLTA early in weapon systems acquisition for the purpose of focusing on training system decisions, and provides a description of where WLTA occurs within the top-down functional analysis process. It concludes with several examples of how the WLTA results can be used to guide training development.

Descriptors:

• *ACQUISITION
• *COSTS
• *SYSTEMS ENGINEERING
• BUDGETS
• DECISION MAKING
• FUNCTIONAL ANALYSIS
• MILITARY REQUIREMENTS
• MISSIONS
• OPTIMIZATION
• REPRINTS
• TOOLS
• TRADE OFF ANALYSIS
• TRAINING
• WEAPON SYSTEMS
• WORKLOAD

Subject Categories:

• Administration and Management
• Economics and Cost Analysis

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE