Integrated Personnel And Training Information For Tradoc System Managers Tsm PDF Download

The Integrated Personnel Support (IPS) model outlines the procedures that should be followed during the development of personnel and training subsystems for new materiel systems. This report identifies some of the technological problems that must be solved. These problems or 'technological gaps' were identified during an extensive literature review for, and the subsequent development of, a handbook for TRADOC System Managers (TSM). Most of the technological gaps related to deficiencies in procedures for estimating training and personnel requirements, and for the development of training strategies, during Phase I and II of the Army's Life Cycle System Management Model (LCSMM). Specifically, there was found to be an absence of satisfactory techniques for (a) deducing training and personnel requirements from materiel characteristics; (b) identifying excessive human resources demands stemming from materiel concepts; (c) identifying functions most appropriately performed by equipment, by persons, or by a man-machine combination; (d) generating task analytic data during Phase I of the LCSMM; (e) identifying high-risk training tasks during Phase I of the LCSMM; (f) indicating appropriate training strategies before actual hardware is developed; and (g) describing human resources data/requiements/contraints meaningfully to design engineers.