The System to Help Identify and Empower Leader Decisions (SHIELD) monitors command, control, communication, computers, and intelligence (C4I) data streams to alert leaders to situations requiring their attention (e.g., units violating a boundary). It allows leaders to temporarily dismiss alerts, have an alert go away for the rest ot a mission, call up recommended courses of action, and/or call up job aids. It captures user responses to alerts in an interactive after action review (AAR) log file that can be used to host an AAR or the recipient of the alerts. SHIELD was designed to be used at any node within a C41 network while maintaining a small footprint. It has been demonstrated as a stand-alone system, as an application running on Force XXI Battle Command Brigade and Below (FBCB2) and the Command and Control Personal Computer (C2PC) without being integrated with these systems, and as an "injector' integrated with C2PC. Data collected by SHIELD to support AARs can also be used to support research on the placement of alerts within a network. Current efforts are directed towards implementing procedures to collect and analyze AAR logs across nodes to support unit level AARs and situational awareness research.
Series statement
Technical report ; 1165
Uniform title
Technical report (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences) ; 1165.
Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited.
Type of report (note)
Final;
System details (note)
Mode of access: Internet from the U.S. Army Research Institute web site. Address as of 05/07/08: http://www.hqda.army.mil/ari/pdf/TR1165.pdf ; current access available via PURL.
Title
Real time decision alert, aid and after action review system for combat and training [electronic resource] / David S. Akin ... [et al.].
Imprint
[Orlando, Fla.] : Simulator Systems Research Unit, U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences, [2005]
Series
Technical report ; 1165
Technical report (U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences) ; 1165.
Type of report
Final; Jan 2003-Feb 2005.
System details
Mode of access: Internet from the U.S. Army Research Institute web site. Address as of 05/07/08: http://www.hqda.army.mil/ari/pdf/TR1165.pdf ; current access available via PURL.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 27).
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