Towards an Integrated C3i Framework for Human Performance Modeling and Analysis

This paper describes an effort to develop an analysis framework and computer-based tools for assessing the impacts of materiel, personnel, and organizational changes in the military intelligence (MI) production system. The framework is intended to assist the MI community in meeting commander’s intelligence requirements of the future. A low resolution technique that facilitates the evaluation of intelligence effectiveness based on an error framework was adopted to develop a series of representational models: conceptual, performance, and information quality. Their integration resulted in the Intelligence Production Model (IPM). In an effort parallel to the development of the IPM, a classical, network-based, task-flow model of soldier tasks (eg. listen, record, monitor, estimate impact and decide, etc.) was constructed. The integration of the two models is a step towards a comprehensive C3I (control, command, communication and intelligence) battlefield research environment that will allow us to explore consequences of various operational scenarios, different configurations of technology, assignments of functions, and roles in the MI systems.