Best - Fundamentals of defence training and simulation

FUNDAMENTAL ISSUES IN DEFENSE TRAINING AND SIMULATION

Modeling and simulation capability and technologies are ubiquitous in our modern world. This is absolutely the case for training. Such capability allows us to increase training effectiveness while saving considerable resources. This book deftly provides key definitions and uses of modeling and simulation in advancing military competency. The book will benefit those who are new to applying this technology to solving real-world training problems.

Dee H. Andrews, Senior Research Psychologist, US Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences

A must read for anyone whose mission it is to present material to an audience for their application and use. This is especially true for military trainers who use technology as a platform in the learning process. The key is understanding the means by which trainees learn and to find the techniques that fit how individuals learn, in order to make contact time most effective/efficient. The Go/No Go decision on training effectiveness is not that the material was presented, but did the trainee grasp the concept and succeed. An important tool for anyone working to educate.

Brigadier General Steven Seay (retired), Former Program Executive Officer, US Army PEO Simulation Training and Instrumentation

Human Factors in Defence

Series Editors:
Dr Don Harris, Managing Director of HFI Solutions Ltd, UK
Professor Neville Stanton, Chair in Human Factors at the
University of Southampton, UK
Dr 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 thanever 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 offirst 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.

EDITED BY

CHRISTOPHER BEST
Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia

GEORGE GALANIS
Defence Science and Technology Organisation, Australia

JAMES KERRY
New Zealand Defence Force, Defence Technology Agency, New Zealand

and

ROBERT SOTTILARE
US Army Research Laboratory, USA

ASHGATE

Christopher Best, George Galanis, James Kerry and Robert Sottilare and the contributors 2013

All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior permission of the publisher.

Christopher Best, George Galanis, James Kerry and Robert Sottilare have asserted their right under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act, 1988, to be identified as the editors of this work.

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The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows:
Fundamentals of defense training and simulation / by Christopher Best [et al.]

p. cm.(Human factors in defence)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-1-4094-4721-4 (hardback: alk. paper)ISBN 978-1-4094-4722-1 (ebook)ISBN 978-1-4724-0330-8 (epub)

1. SoldiersTraining of. 2. SoldiersTraining ofComputer simulation. 3. Military education. I. Best, Christopher. II. Series: Human factors in defence.

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ISBN 9781409447214 (hbk)
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Lochlan Magee

James Kerry

James Kerry

LCdr Brett Christensen and LCdr Remi Tremblay

Phil Wallace

Winston Bennett, Jr., George M. Alliger, Charles M. Colegrove, Michael J. Garrity, and Rebecca M. Beard

George Galanis

E. James Kehoe

James A. Grand and Steve W.J. Kozlowski

Rebecca Grossman and Eduardo Salas

Heather M. McIntyre and Ebb Smith

J.D. Fletcher

Robert A. Sottilare

Stuart Grant and Slawomir Wesolkowski

Kay Stanney, Meredith Carroll, Roberto Champney, Luke DeVore, and Kelly Hale

Melissa M. Walwanis, Brandy L. Swanson, and Beth F. Wheeler Atkinson

M. Beth H. Pettitt, Jack E. Norfleet, and William Y. Pike

Rodney A. Long

Robert A. Sottilare and Stephen Goldberg

Robert A. Sottilare, Keith W. Brawner, Benjamin S. Goldberg, and Heather K. Holden

John Hart, Jonathan Gratch, and Stacy Marsella

Christopher Best

Reid A. Bates, Nicole Cannonier, and E.F. Holton III

Anya Andrews, Clint Bowers, and Corina Lechin

Beth F. Wheeler Atkinson, Robert G. Abbott, and Danielle C. Merket

Mark Schroeder, Brian Schreiber, and Winston Bennett, Jr.

George Galanis, Ashley Stephens, and Philip Temby

Robert G. Abbott, Sandia National Labs

George M. Alliger, The Group for Organizational Effectiveness

Anya Andrews, Erudition Corporation, University of Central Florida

Beth F. Wheeler Atkinson, Naval Air Warfare Center Training Systems Division

Reid A. Bates, Louisiana State University

Rebecca M. Beard, The Group for Organizational Effectiveness

Winston Bennett, Jr., United States Air Force Research Laboratory

Christopher Best, Defence Science and Technology Organisation

Clint Bowers, University of Central Florida

Keith W. Brawner, US Army Research Laboratory

Nicole Cannonier, Louisiana State University

Meredith Carroll, Design Interactive, Inc.

Roberto Champney, Design Interactive, Inc.

Brett Christensen, Canadian Forces Warfare Centre

Charles M. Colegrove, USAF Air Combat Command, Alion Science and Technology

Luke DeVore, Design Interactive, Inc.

J.D. Fletcher, Institute for Defense Analyses

George Galanis, Defence Science and Technology Organisation