Performance Measurement for Diagnosing and Debriefing Distributed Command and Control Teams

Abstract : Distributed simulation-based training is a challenging and resource intensive effort that the services must perform on a day-to-day basis--within services, joint service, and in joint coalition forces. Research gains have been made that demonstrate advanced training assessment and diagnosis, however, there remains a need for research and development of automated capabilities for assessing team performance, diagnosing root causes of team failure, and debriefing the results across distributed platforms in exercises. A major thrust of this research needs to be the development of measurement technologies for distributed team training that advances the efficiency and speed of delivery to the war fighter in training. In this paper we draw from the recent research on adaptive team architectures for command and control, team decision-making and training, and examples of team measurement tools to derive assessment requirements that support the instructional processes required for distributed team training debrief and after action review.