Download or read book Experimentation for Our next Army written by Karl J. Gunzelman and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Logic of Warfighting Experiments written by Richard A. Kass and published by Ccrp Publication Series. This book was released on 2006-01-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Role of Experimentation in Building Future Naval Forces written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2005-01-08 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Department of Defense is in the process of transforming the nation's armed forces to meet the military challenges of the 21st century. Currently, the opportunity exists to carry out experiments at individual and joint service levels to facilitate this transformation. Experimentation, which involves a spectrum of activities including analyses, war games, modeling and simulation, small focused experiments, and large field events among other things, provides the means to enhance naval and joint force development. To assist the Navy in this effort, the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) asked the National Research Council (NRC) to conduct a study to examine the role of experimentation in building future naval forces to operate in the joint environment. The NRC formed the Committee for the Role of Experimentation in Building Future Naval Forces to perform the study.
Download or read book Playing War written by Ryan C. Kendall and published by . This book was released on 2022 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The military innovation process takes on different characteristics during wartime and peacetime. Wartime innovation has the immediate feedback of the battlefield. Peacetime innovation must account for various possible futures while facing the uncertainties of imperfect information. Military innovation studies suggest that experimentation provides a tool for overcoming this challenge. Existing scholarship characterizes experimentation as an iterative learning process that generates new data about future warfare, citing historical examples such as US carrier warfare and German combined arms maneuver. This dissertation argues that this perspective is incomplete for understanding how experimentation supports peacetime innovation. Rather than revealing the nature of future warfare, experimentation instead is most valuable as a consensus-building tool. Peacetime military experimentation is a social process within which organizations, groups, and actors influence the ideological competition within a defense policy subsystem. Social processes involve constructing knowledge and achieving consensus on beliefs of 'what is true' and 'what works.' During war, this process happens thru shared experiences on the battlefield. During peacetime, this process happens during experimentation. Military experimentation requires senior leader sponsorship, but sponsorship alone will not build sufficient consensus within the key constituencies. To increase the probability that experimentation will lead to a transition to the implementation stage of the innovation process, defense policymakers utilize an advocacy network, a loose coalition of defense policymakers and policy influencers, to build consensus across the defense policy subsystem. This dissertation examines these arguments within three case studies: the Army’s experimentation with a motorized concept in the 1980s, the Army’s New Louisiana Maneuvers and Force XXI experiments in the 1990s, and Joint Forces Command’s joint experimentation of the late 1990s and early 2000s. For defense policy, this dissertation’s findings suggest that defense policymakers should focus efforts on extending an advocacy network that connects experimentation to the broader defense policy subsystem to maximize experimentation's usefulness. Additionally, experimentation requires leaders who are intellectually engaged with new ideas, can communicate their value, have the credibility of operational experience, and participate in the advocacy network to connect experimentation with key groups. Finally, effective experimentation requires leaders who receive the requisite education and experiences early and often in their careers
Download or read book Opportunities in Biotechnology for Future Army Applications written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2001-07-11 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report surveys opportunities for future Army applications in biotechnology, including sensors, electronics and computers, materials, logistics, and medical therapeutics, by matching commercial trends and developments with enduring Army requirements. Several biotechnology areas are identified as important for the Army to exploit, either by direct funding of research or by indirect influence of commercial sources, to achieve significant gains in combat effectiveness before 2025.
Download or read book Toxicologic Assessment of the Army s Zinc Cadmium Sulfide Dispersion Tests written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-05-30 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1950s and 1960s, the U.S. Army conducted atmospheric dispersion tests in many American cities using fluorescent particles of zinc cadmium sulfide (ZnCdS) to develop and verify meteorological models to estimate the dispersal of aerosols. Upon learning of the tests, many citizens and some public health officials in the affected cities raised concerns about the health consequences of the tests. This book assesses the public health effects of the Army's tests, including the toxicity of ZnCdS, the toxicity of surrogate cadmium compounds, the environmental fate of ZnCdS, the extent of public exposures from the dispersion tests, and the risks of such exposures.
Download or read book Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments Ancillary materials written by United States. Advisory Committee on Human Radiation Experiments and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Military Medical Ethics Volume 1 written by and published by DIANE Publishing. This book was released on with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Proposed Army Research Institute Support for Army After Next Experimental Unit written by Scott Graham and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Army is discussing the creation of an experiment unit that can be used to evaluate and refine concepts being developed for the Army After Next (AAN). The purpose of this scripted briefing is to describe what the Army Research Institute (ARI) could do in support of an AAN Experiment Unit (EXUnit), should such an organization be established. The recommendations are based on well-established military psychology principles derived from decades of behavioral science research. In addition, critical research issues are identified that we believe need to be addressed. ARI is prepared to help lead in the design and the utilization of the EXUnit. Our proposed effort uses a systems approach to organize, understand, and address AAN training and personnel performance issues. It is a systems approach in that there are explicit relationship between the various proposals. Among the components to be proposed are sequential selection, assignment, and training systems or subsystems. These systems will rely heavily on the development and use of virtual and constructive simulation environments for concept development and evaluation. Virtual prototypes of future weapon systems and mixes, Communication patterns, and organizational structures will need to be constructed as a means to empirically determine effective if not optional, job structures, personnel requirements, skill mixes, communication patterns, and tactics, techniques and procedures (TTPs). Much of the focus is on enhancing the collective performance of AAN teams. This will require the development of AAN collective performance measures that can be used to assess the effectiveness of AAN teams or or forces under realistic AAN conditions. In addition, there are several recurring themes that occur throughout this briefing. these include the development and refinement of AAN job structure based on projected AAN front and analysis, Along with the development of complementary AAN performance measures.
Download or read book Proceedings of the Conference on the Design of Experiments in Army Research Development and Testing written by United States. Office of Ordnance Research and published by . This book was released on 1976 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Army RD A written by and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Vaccine A written by Gary Matsumoto and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2009-04-29 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this provocative look at the US military from the Persian Gulf War through the 2003 invasion of Iraq, investigative journalist Gary Matsumoto contends that an anthrax vaccine dispensed by the Department of Defense was the cause of Gulf War Syndrome and the origins of a massive cover-up. Matsumoto calls it the worst friendly-fire incident in military history. A skillfully-woven narrative that serves as a warning about this man-made epidemic, Vaccine A is a much needed account of just what went wrong, and why.
Download or read book Opportunities in Neuroscience for Future Army Applications written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2009-07-16 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Advances and major investments in the field of neuroscience can enhance traditional behavioral science approaches to training, learning, and other applications of value to the Army. Neural-behavioral indicators offer new ways to evaluate how well an individual trainee has assimilated mission critical knowledge and skills, and can also be used to provide feedback on the readiness of soldiers for combat. Current methods for matching individual capabilities with the requirements for performing high-value Army assignments do not include neuropsychological, psychophysiological, neurochemical or neurogenetic components; simple neuropsychological testing could greatly improve training success rates for these assignments. Opportunities in Neuroscience for Future Army Applications makes 17 recommendations that focus on utilizing current scientific research and development initiatives to improve performance and efficiency, collaborating with pharmaceutical companies to employ neuropharmaceuticals for general sustainment or enhancement of soldier performance, and improving cognitive and behavioral performance using interdisciplinary approaches and technological investments. An essential guide for the Army, this book will also be of interest to other branches of military, national security and intelligence agencies, academic and commercial researchers, pharmaceutical companies, and others interested in applying the rapid advances in neuroscience to the performance of individual and group tasks.
Download or read book Undue Risk written by Jonathan D. Moreno and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the courtrooms of Nuremberg to the battlefields of the Gulf War, Undue Risk exposes a variety of government policies and specific cases, includingplutonium injections to unwilling hospital patients, and even the attempted recruitment of Nazi medical scientists bythe U.S. government after World War II.
Download or read book Veterans at Risk written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1993-02-01 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recently, World War II veterans have come forward to claim compensation for health effects they say were caused by their participation in chemical warfare experiments. In response, the Veterans Administration asked the Institute of Medicine to study the issue. Based on a literature review and personal testimony from more than 250 affected veterans, this new volume discusses in detail the development and chemistry of mustard agents and Lewisite followed by interesting and informative discussions about these substances and their possible connection to a range of health problems, from cancer to reproductive disorders. The volume also offers an often chilling historical examination of the use of volunteers in chemical warfare experiments by the U.S. militaryâ€"what the then-young soldiers were told prior to the experiments, how they were "encouraged" to remain in the program, and how they were treated afterward. This comprehensive and controversial book will be of importance to policymakers and legislators, military and civilian planners, officials at the Department of Veterans Affairs, military historians, and researchers.
Download or read book Tactical Display for Soldiers written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 1997-01-17 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the human factors issues associated with the development, testing, and implementation of helmet-mounted display technology in the 21st Century Land Warrior System. Because the framework of analysis is soldier performance with the system in the full range of environments and missions, the book discusses both the military context and the characteristics of the infantry soldiers who will use the system. The major issues covered include the positive and negative effects of such a display on the local and global situation awareness of the individual soldier, an analysis of the visual and psychomotor factors associated with each design feature, design considerations for auditory displays, and physical sources of stress and the implications of the display for affecting the soldier's workload. The book proposes an innovative approach to research and testing based on a three-stage strategy that begins in the laboratory, moves to controlled field studies, and culminates in operational testing.
Download or read book The Army Chaplaincy written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No longer distributed to depository libraries in tangible format (per ANTS-v9-#09)
