Neville A. Stanton - Digitising Command and Control

DIGITISING COMMAND AND CONTROL

Human Factors in Defence
Series Editors:

Professor Don Harris, Cranfield University, UK
Professor Neville Stanton, Brunei University, UK
Professor Eduardo Salas, University of Central Florida, USA

Human factors is key to enabling todays armed forces to implement their vision to produce battle-winning people and equipment that are fit for the challenge of today, ready for the tasks of tomorrow and capable of building for the future (source: UK MoD). Modern armed forces fulfil a wider variety of roles than ever before. In addition to defending sovereign territory and prosecuting armed conflicts, military personnel are engaged in homeland defence and in undertaking peacekeeping operations and delivering humanitarian aid right across the world. This requires top class personnel, trained to the highest standards in the use of first class equipment. The military has long recognised that good human factors is essential if these aims are to be achieved.

The defence sector is far and away the largest employer of human factors personnel across the globe and is the largest funder of basic and applied research. Much of this research is applicable to a wide audience, not just the military; this series aims to give readers access to some of this high quality work.

Ashgates Human Factors in Defence series comprises of specially commissioned books from internationally recognised experts in the field. They provide in-depth, authoritative accounts of key human factors issues being addressed by the defence industry across the world.

A Human Factors and Ergonomics Analysis of Mission Planning and Battlespace Management

NEVILLE A. STANTONM
University of Southampton, UK

DANIEL P. JENKINS
Sociotechnic Solutions Ltd, UK

PAUL M. SALMON
Monash University, Australia

GUY H. WALKER
Heriot-Watt University, UK

KIRSTEN M. A. REVELL
University of Southampton, UK

&

LAURA A. RAFFERTY
University of Southampton, UK

ASHGATE

Neville A. Stanton, Daniel P. Jenkins, Paul M. Salmon, Guy H. Walker, Kirsten M. A. Revell and Laura A. Rafferty 2009

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Digitising command and control : a human factors and
ergonomics analysis of Mission Planning and Battlespace
management. -- (Human factors in defence)
1. Command and control systems--Planning. 2. Human-machine
systems--Design.
I. Series II. Stanton, Neville, 1960
355.33041011-dc22

ISBN: 978-0-7546-7759-8 (hbk)
ISBN: 978-0-7546-9502-8 (ebk)
ISBN: 978-1-4094-8611-4 (ebk-ePUB)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Digitising command and control : a human factors and ergonomics analysis of mission planning and battlespace management / by Neville A. Stanton [et al.].

p. cm. -- (Human factors in defence)

Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7546-7759-8 (hardcover) -- ISBN 978-0-7546-9502-8 (ebook)

1. Electronics in military engineering. 2. Command and control systems. 3. Digital communications.
4. Human engineering. 5. Military planning. I. Stanton, Neville, 1960

UG485.D53 2009
355.33041--dc22

2009011260

Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Group, UK

The HFI DTC is a consortium of defence companies and Universities working in cooperation on a series of defence-related projects. The consortium is led by Aerosystems International and comprises Birmingham University, Brunel University, Cranfield University, Lockheed Martin, MBDA and SEA. The consortium was recently awarded The Ergonomics Society Presidents Medal for work that has made a significant contribution to original research, the development of methodology, and application of knowledge within the field of ergonomics

We are grateful to DSTL who have managed the work of the consortium, in particular (and in alphabetical order) to Geoff Barrett, Bruce Callander, Jen Clemitson, Colin Corbridge, Katherine Cornes, Roland Edwards, Alan Ellis, Helen Forse, Beejal Mistry, Alison Rogers, Jim Squire and Debbie Webb.

This work from the HFI DTC was part-funded by the Human Sciences Domain of the UK Ministry of Defence Scientific Research Programme.

Further information on the work and people that comprise the HFI DTC can be found on www.hfidtc.com.