Human Performance Modeling for Operational Command,Control and Communication

Abstract

The challenges facing the military due to adversaries, new battlegrounds, and everchanging technology requires innovative, fast, and efficient means to conduct and support research. The Army Research Laboratory has developed a modeling environment, C3TRACE (Command, Control, and Communication — Techniques for Reliable Assessment of Concept Execution), that aids in the evaluation of different personnel architectures and information technology on system and human performance. This modeling environment, which was originally designed to address tactical command issues, has been applied to a higher level organizational command and control environment within the Joint Forces Command. Specifically, it was applied to an urban operations exercise to evaluate the effect of various personnel structures and communication means on awareness, flow of information, and decision-making.

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