REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE 1. REPORT DATE (dd-mm-yy) August 2001 2. REPORT TYPEFinal 3. DATES COVERED (from. . . to) November 199 8 - July 200 1 5a. CONTRACT OR GRANT NUMBERDASW01-99-C-0002 4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE Decision-Center ed MOUT Training for Small Unit Leaders 5b. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER65502 5c. PROJECT NUMBERM770 5d. TASK NUMBER6901 6. AUTHOR(S) Jennifer Phillips, Michael J. McCloskey, Patricia L. McDermott, Sterling L. Wiggins, Deborah A. Battaglia, Marvin L. Thordsen, and Gary Klein 5e. WORK UNIT NUMBERC12 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) Klein Associates Inc. 1750 Commerce Center Blvd. North Fairborn, OH 45234-3987 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NUMBER10. MONITOR ACRONYM ARI 9. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences 5001 Eisenhower Avenue Alexandria, VA 22333-5600 11. MONITOR REPORT NUMBER Research Report 1776 12. DISTRIBUTION/AVAILABILITY STATEMENT Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. 13. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES COR: Kenneth L. Evans 14. ABSTRACT(Maximum 200 words): This research effort applied principles of Naturalistic Decision Making to identify the co gnitive challenges involved in platoon leader decision making in Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) building clearing missions. The findings informed the development of classroom, hardcopy, and multimedia training products to support Infantry Officer Basic Cour se students in MOUT decision making. A Cognitive Task Analysis of the building clearing task entailed a series of in-depth interviews with Army personnel experienced in MOUT. The analysis resulted in a detailed representation of eleven high-level decision requirements associated with the building-clearing task. Cognitive demand s related to each requirement – critical decisions and judgments, sensory cues, other factors, and expert strategies – are included in the representation. Four products were developed b ased on the findings of the a nalysis: sixteen decision- centered training scenarios for MOUT environments; an interactive, multimedia tool (IMPACT) that 15. SUBJECT TERMS Military Operations in Urban Terrain (MOUT) Cognitive Task Analysis Decision Making Situation Awareness SA SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF 16. REPORT Unclassifie 17. ABSTRACT Unclassified 18. THIS PAGE Unclassified 19. LIMITATION OF ABSTRACT Unlimited 20. NUMBER OF PAGES 109 21. RESPONSIBLE PERSON (Name and Telephone Number) Dr. Ken Evans (706) 545-2565
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