Overview
Improving System Performance and Affordability by Improving Sailor
Performance
The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Laboratory (NSWCDD) is a leader in
providing systems engineering expertise to
NAVSEA Dahlgren is a leader in providing systems engineering expertise to Navy
acquisition programs. The Integrated Command Environment (ICE) and Human
Performance Laboratory (HPL) team and facilities, due to the location at NAVSEA
Dahlgren and partnership with the Center for Surface Combatant Systems (CSCS),
provide a valuable link between science and technology, research and development
activities, and the acquisition and Fleet communities. Performing research in
the context of operational needs ensures Fleet interest and participation,
appropriate focus, and a clear transition path. Strong Fleet participation
(1,500 officer and enlisted participants in the last five years) and human
systems engineering expertise have been key to the success of the ICE/HPL.
The ICE/HPL team's focus is human performance, stressing optimization of
manpower, usability, maintainability, decision support, and knowledge
superiority in an effort to enhance the capabilities of our warfighters and
improve total system performance and affordability over the entire life-cycle of
a platform or system. A sound, systems engineering approach is applied to
problems, emphasizing that a system is not only composed of hardware and
software but also includes the human operators, maintainers, decision makers,
and the shore support infrastructure manpower.
ICE/HPL Efforts
Currently, the ICE/HPL team addresses the following:
- Human Performance
- Definition of requirements for knowledge superiority, decision support,
effective communications, humancomputer interaction, manning optimization,
maintenance, handling, usability and training
- Usability testing of new warfighter-centered designs, decision-support and
workload reduction concepts
- Experiments on new concepts with Fleet teams under realistic conditions to
compare individual and team performance with existing systems in the Fleet today
- Design of work environments, command spaces (Naval Space Command, Northern
Command, CV-TSC DD(X) Bridge, Regional Operation Centers (ROC)) and
workstations/consoles
- Concept demonstrations to help visualize future possibilities and identify
critical issues
- Partnership with NAVAIR/Orlando, CSCS, HPC, and Virtual HSI SYSCOM on human
performance and training
- Support for the CNO initiated Human Systems Performance Assessment
Capability (HSPAC), DD(X), LCS, Open Architecture, FORCEnet, MDA, Sheriff and
many other programs
Capabilities include measurement of workload and performance across
individual, team, system, and organizational domains.ICE/HPL has been
instrumental in identifying issues regarding a new way of thinking about
shipboard command and control: an Integrated Command Environment, which
encompasses all command and control capabilities of a platform. Whether this is
accomplished in one space or distributed spaces, or in a virtual environment,
human capabilities and limitations must be clearly understood to ensure designs
are usable, trainable, maintainable, and sustainable under all conditions,
ranging from routine to adverse and stressful conditions.
ICE/HPL Vision
- A human performance test bed
- A human performance test-bed
- A vehicle to identify issues and requirements and communicate ideas
- A way to explore the possibilities for an optimally manned command
environment
What ICE/HPL Provides
- Controlled environment for testing
- Flexible and rapidly reconfigurable facility
- Software prototyping expertise
- Simulation capability
- Video, audio, physiological, and data recording and analysis capabilities
- Human factors and margin of error (MOE) analysis
- Workload assessments, usability studies, and performance tests
- Links to Distributed Engineering Plant (DEP), Collaborative Engineering
Environment (CEE), Human- Centered Design Environment (HCDE), Naval Air Warfare
Center Training Systems Division (NAWCTSD), Space and Naval Warfare Systems
Center (SPAWAR)-San Diego (SSC-SD), Secret Internet Protocol Router Network
(SIPRNET), Defense Research and Engineering Network (DREN), Naval Undersea
Warfare Center (NUWC), and others
- Mobile Human Performance Assessment Capability
- ViPr Capability Collaboration and Coordination
What ICE/HPL Facilitates
- Warfighter interaction with designers
- Concept exploration and evaluation
- Efficient requirements definition
- Human factors and technology evaluations
- Manning concept assessments
- Training concept assessments
- Human Performance Assessment
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