Rethinking the Air Operations Center, Air Force Command and Control in Conventional War

This paper discusses the design, implementation, and evaluation of a prototype speech recognition interface to the Theater Air Planning (TAP) module of Theater Battle Management Core Systems (TBMCS). This effort was in support of a Kenney Battlelab Initiative proposal submitted to the Command and Control Battlelab at Hurlburt Field, FL to assess the operational benefits of speech recognition for data entry applications in a Joint Air Operations Center environment. Several factors contributing to the design of the “TAPTalk” speech interface included interviews with subject matter experts, speech system selection, grammar development, and integration into TAP, which required only minor modification of existing software. Results from the two week operational assessment with sixteen subjects from the Command and Control Training and Innovation Group, numbered Air Forces, Navy, and Marine Corp indicated that the Theater Air Planning process could be accomplished significantly faster with no increase in error rates. Subjectively, the sixteen planners unanimously agreed that the TAPTalk speech interface was a valuable addition to TAP and would recommend its inclusion in a future upgrade. Recommendations for further improving the TAPTalk system are discussed.

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Designing Reusable Mission Operations Center Software Components: The Dependency Inversion Principle Applied to Satellite Command and Control

2014 IEEE International Conference on Space Mission Challenges for Information Technology ◽

10.1109/smc-it.2014.9 ◽

2014 ◽

Author(s):

William C. Stratton

Keyword(s):

Command And Control ◽

Software Components ◽

Inversion Principle ◽

And Control ◽

Mission Operations ◽

Operations Center

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United States Air Force Training Extract. AFSC 1C4X1 Tactical Air Command and Control (ANG)

10.21236/ada406867 ◽

2002 ◽

Author(s):

Troy Guthrie

Keyword(s):

United States ◽

Air Force ◽

United States Air Force ◽

Command And Control ◽

And Control

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Evaluation of Digital Checklists for Command and Control Operations

Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting ◽

10.1177/1541931213601255 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 60 (1) ◽

pp. 1108-1112

Author(s):

Christopher K. McClernon ◽

Victor S. Finomore ◽

Terence S. Andre ◽

Forrest S. Jeffery ◽

Oliver N. Myers

Keyword(s):

Air Force ◽

Relative Effectiveness ◽

Command And Control ◽

Air Force Academy ◽

Military Operation ◽

Subjective Data ◽

Potential Effectiveness ◽

Subjective Assessments ◽

And Control ◽

Command Center

Checklists are a critical component of most any military operation and both the construction of and presentation of checklists can affect the performance and efficiency of these operations. The purpose of this research project is to compare methods for displaying and executing checklists in a command and control operation to increase both performance and efficiency. The NORAD/NORTHCOM Command Center (N2C2) uses a paper checklist system to facilitate responding to any number of disasters, to include air catastrophes. This project investigated the potential effectiveness of a digital system that could take the place of the paper system that is currently being used. A between groups experimental design was used to analyze the relative effectiveness of each method. Each group of subjects was introduced to a timed task on different checklist systems and asked to complete an Air Force Academy Command Center checklist as accurately and as quickly as possible. Performance and subjective assessments of each system were analyzed and compared. The data showed that a linear digital checklist takes a longer amount of time than both a paper checklist and hierarchical digital checklist. In addition, the subjective data showed that the hierarchical system and paper system were easier to use and navigate than the linear system.

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