The views presented in this paper are those of the author alone, and they do not necessarily reflect the views of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or its official staff. The author wishes to thank Rochelle Antoniewicz for sharing the flow of funds calculations used in this paper, Amber Lynn Lytle for research assistance, Annamaria Lusardi, Martha Starr-McCluer and John Weich...

This study assessed the prevalence and psychosocial correlates of clinical criteria-based diagnoses of nicotine dependence in men and women in the U.S. naval services. Analyses were based on data from the 1995 Perceptions of Wellness and Readiness Assessment, a population-based self-report survey of 9,856 active-duty Navy and Marine Corps members worldwide, specifically focusing on a subsample ...

We present a planner for the Combat Power Management (CPM) problem. In response to multiple simultaneous or sequential threats, the planner generates a set of local plans, one for each target considered apart, and then merges them by searching the space of global plans. The proposed plan merging solution serves also as an iterative plan repair process that resolves negative interferences (subad...

In the present study, the overall economic impact of hull fouling on a mid-sized naval surface ship (Arleigh Burke-class destroyer DDG-51) has been analyzed. A range of costs associated with hull fouling was examined, including expenditures for fuel, hull coatings, hull coating application and removal, and hull cleaning. The results indicate that the primary cost associated with fouling is due ...

This report describes Eucalyptus, a natural language (NL) interface that has been integrated with the graphical user interface of the KOALAS Test Planning Tool, a simulated Naval air combat command system. The multimodal, multimedia interface handles both imperative commands and database queries (either typed or spoken into a microphone) while still allowing full use of the original graphical i...

On naval ships the crew is assisted by a combat management system (CMS) in their assessment of the tactical situation around the ship and their subsequent actions. Today’s information-rich littoral environments force operators to divide attention between different information items. The risk of overload is imminent and the concept of adaptive automation can aid the operator. The first concept r...

Challenges with surgical cricothyroidotomy on the battlefield can be attributed to limited frequency of use, procedure unfamiliarity, and limited knowledge base of anatomical landmarks of which is further heighten in the tactical environment. The objective was to identify ways to enhance the cricothyroidotomy training to minimize potential preventable procedural errors. A training review was co...

This paper introduces a simple multiagent-based \toy model" of land combat called ISAAC (Irreducible Semi-Autonomous Adaptive Combat) to illustrate how certain aspects of land combat can be viewed as emergent phenomena resulting from the collective, nonlinear, decentralized interactions among notional combatants. ISAAC takes a bottom-up, synthesist approach to the modeling of combat, vice the m...

Although much of the work that Navy operators undertake is cognitive in nature, involving tasks such as sensemaking, planning, decision making, and attention management, most of the human factors work done in Navy systems acquisition is task-based, or behavioral in nature. Neither the JCIDS process (per DAU Guidebook) nor the Navy Instruction 5000.2 incorporates processes for cognitive engineer...

Presented a Battlefield Le Conference to Medicine, Tel Correspondi Trauma System Tactical Combat Casualty Care (TCCC) is a set of evidence-based, best-practice prehospital trauma care guidelines customized for use on the battlefield. The origins of TCCC were nontraditional. The TCCC program began as a Naval Special Warfare biomedical research effort launched after the realization that extremity...