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5 Challenges
5 Challenges
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Therefore, the analysis of survivability and lethality of the FCS will require more thorough consideration of human performance, network behavior, information assurance, and systems engineering. As mentioned in passing above, HRED is addressing important issues relative to vulnerabilities of the digital Army, such as how information technology can best be used to support team information sharing.
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The Board recommends that future HRED work examine methods of improving task performance by reducing load or adjusting to it, that secondary tasks more relevant to soldier workload be employed, and that signal detection analysis be used to assess the results. It is clear from the presentations and discussions with SLAD staff that SLAD's major near-term issue is to support FCS requirements, including system-of-systems work, information warfare, and electronic warfare, while continuing and perhaps expanding its world-class work in ballistics vulnerability analysis.
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VULNERABILITIES OF COTS PRODUCTS An issue related to those discussed in the previous section, because materiel for the networked force will rely heavily on commercial computing and communications products, is that SLAD appears to have far too few resources to do stand-alone, in-depth analyses of complex commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products.
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In the Board's 1999-2000 report, the "hiring of new people and the replacement of departing experts"2 was raised as a key issue. ARL has clearly paid attention to the problems noted in that report related to staffing and has pursued some of the steps recommended there: • High-quality in-house education programs; • Off-site opportunities for internal staff to earn Ph.D.'s; 2NRC, 2000, 1999-2000 Assessment of the Army Research Laboratory, p.
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Another sort of recruitment problem is found in WMRD, in which over 40 percent of the managers are working in an acting, or temporary, capacity. The Board realizes that filling such higher-level slots is a slow process throughout government, but the constraints on WMRD's ability to fill division director slots in a timely manner places it at a serious disadvantage in competing for first-rate people.
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The use of models and computer codes that have not been properly grounded in the best available modeling or validated and verified by experimental data will almost surely lead to erroneous, costly, and dangerous predictions. Ensuring the use of grounded models and validated/verified codes for both physical and human performance models is essential to the performance of ARL and to its credibility.
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Also, while the logistical force design model has been nicely applied to examine the efficiency of various approaches to maintaining the biological suite unit, results must be interpreted in light of the workings and limitations of the model, avoiding the temptation to take as gospel the numerical outputs of the model. Model developers and users at HRED need to recognize that a principal value of models is their assistance in structuring the thinking about processes, and that this value can be independent of the numerical results produced.
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