Department of Defense and Service Requirements for Human Factors R&D in the Military System Acquisition Process

1980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harold E. Price ◽  
Marco Fiorello ◽  
John C. Lowry ◽  
M. G. Smith ◽  
Jerry S. Kidd
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Department Of Defense ◽  
Acquisition Process ◽  
System Acquisition ◽  
The Military

Human Factors Engineering Planning Aid

1987 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 350-352
Author(s):  
Stephen C. Merriman
Keyword(s):  
Complex System ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Human Factors Engineering ◽  
Planning Time ◽  
Acquisition Process ◽  
Engineering Program ◽  
System Acquisition ◽  
The Military ◽  
Made In

This paper describes the application of affordable program management software to the task of planning human factors programs conducted in support of complex system developments. A model of the military system acquisition process was developed and a model human factors engineering program was overlayed upon it. Interdependencies were created between the models so that changes made in the acquisition schedule would cause the human factors program to be automatically tailored. This approach has potential to reduce planning time and increase the quality of human factors plans.

Human Factors for Naval Systems: Enhanced Hardman

1988 ◽  
Vol 32 (16) ◽  
pp. 1100-1103
Author(s):  
Thomas B. Malone ◽  
Clifford C. Baker
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Life Support ◽  
System Development ◽  
Human Factors Engineering ◽  
Weapon System ◽  
Acquisition Process ◽  
System Acquisition ◽  
Support Engineering ◽  
And Training ◽  
The U.S

The U.S. Navy is developing methods for integrating the disciplines concerned with personnel considerations into the weapon system acquisition process. This integration essentially involves human factors engineering, manpower, personnel and training, and life support engineering. Since the Navy already has the HARDMAN methodology in place to ensure that manpower, personnel and training concerns are addressed early in system development, the process of integration of personnel issues will involve expanding the HARDMAN methods and data to include human factors engineering and life support engineering, resulting in the Enhanced HARDMAN process. This paper describes the objectives of Enhanced HARDMAN.

Integration of Human Factors Engineering within the System Acquisition Process

1986 ◽  
Vol 30 (8) ◽  
pp. 758-762 ◽  
Author(s):  
Grace P. Waldrop
Keyword(s):  
Human Factors ◽  
Health Hazard ◽  
Critical Role ◽  
Training System ◽  
Human Factors Engineering ◽  
Acquisition Process ◽  
Safety And Health ◽  
System Acquisition ◽  
The U.S ◽  
Human Component

The U.S. Army's Manpower and Personnel Integration (MANPRINT) requirement is designed to fully integrate the Materiel Acquisition Process (MAP) to include Human Factors Engineering (HFE), Manpower, Personnel, Training, System Safety, and Health Hazard Assessment early in the cycle. This effort represents an excellent opportunity for HFE practitioners to influence the system design process with considerations for the human component. However, MANPRINT also represents the necessity for a variety of disciplines to work together and communicate data during all phases of the MAP. This task requires full documentation of all efforts and utilization of valid methodologies. The broad base of data contained within HFE analyses gives it a critical role in the integration process.

Military Postal Service Task Group. Recommendations Regarding the Military Postal System of the Department of Defense.

2005 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Barrett ◽  
James Kimsey ◽  
Arnold Punaro ◽  
Dov Zakheim ◽  
Henry Dreifus ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Department Of Defense ◽  
Task Group ◽  
Postal Service ◽  
Group Recommendations ◽  
The Military ◽  
Service Task

scholarly journals Ergonomics - Future Perspectives

1976 ◽  
Author(s):  
E. J. McCormick
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Consumer Products ◽  
Human Factors Engineering ◽  
Future Perspectives ◽  
Work Activities ◽  
Basic Task ◽  
Basic Distinction ◽  
The Military

Ergonomics (a synonym for human factors engineering) has contributed significantly to fundamental effectiveness of people, but needs a new emphasis and wider applications in future. A basic distinction is drawn between the areas of application and the focus of ergonomists. Although applications have been relatively successful in the military and industrial fields, ergonomics should also be applied to consumer products, architecture, transportation and recreation. In future, the primary challenge will be to improve the "quality of life" by enhancing human satisfaction and allowing people to function at higher value levels. In work activities the basic task of ergonomics has been to simplify and standardise jobs, but future focus should be on enlargement and enrichment of jobs. Because of individual differences probably not all jobs could be made completely satisfactory to all workers. However, significant contributions could be made through continued efforts to “humanise” work activities.Opsomming Ergonomika ('n sinoniem vir "human factors engineering") het reeds heelwat bygedra tot die doeltreffende funksionering van die mens, maar nuwe gesigspunte en toepassingsvelde sal in die toekoms nodig wees. 'n Fundamentele onderskeid word getref tussen die gebiede van toepassing en die fokus van beoefenaars van die ergonomika. Hoewel toepassings in die militêre en industriële sfere redelik suksesvol was, behoort ergonomiese beginsels ook op verbruikerswese, argitektuur, vervoer en ontspanning toegepas te word. Die grootste uitdaging in die toekoms sal egter wees om "lewenskwaliteit" te verbeter deur tevredenheid te verhoog en mense te help om doeltreffender te leef en in die proses hoër waardevlakke te handhaaf. In werksaktiwiteite was die hoofdoel tot dusver om werk te standaardiseer en te vereenvoudig, maar dit word al hoe noodsaakliker dat poste verruim en verryk moet word. Waarskynlik sal alle poste nie vir alle bekleërs volkome bevredigend gemaak kan word nie, maar dit sou tog nuttig wees om heelwat meer aandag aan die "humanisering" van werksaktiwiteite te gee.

Salvaging Marginalized Men: How the Department of Defense Waged the War on Poverty

2021 ◽  
Vol 33 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-400
Author(s):  
JOHN WORSENCROFT
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Social Welfare ◽  
Department Of Defense ◽  
Military Service ◽  
Social Welfare Policy ◽  
War On Poverty ◽  
Military Installations ◽  
Male Breadwinner ◽  
A Site ◽  
The Military

AbstractArchitects of social welfare policy in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations viewed the military as a site for strengthening the male breadwinner as the head of the “traditional family.” Daniel Patrick Moynihan and Robert McNamara—men not often mentioned in the same conversations—both spoke of “salvaging” young men through military service. The Department of Defense created Project Transition, a vocational jobs-training program for GIs getting ready to leave the military, and Project 100,000, which lowered draft requirements in order to put men who were previously unqualified into the military. The Department of Defense also made significant moves to end housing discrimination in communities surrounding military installations. Policymakers were convinced that any extension of social welfare demanded reciprocal responsibility from its male citizens. During the longest peacetime draft in American history, policymakers viewed programs to expand civil rights and social welfare as also expanding the umbrella of the obligations of citizenship.

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