MAP-01-011 HFI Technical Guide - Human Factors Integration ...

Chapter 7 – TrainingTraining must be provided for individual users and maintainers and at sub-team,full team and command team levels.The requirement to train selected personnel in the integrated employment ofsensors and weapons will remain for the foreseeable future. However, theincreasing complexity of the modern digitised battle space, ‘swing’ and thegrowth of information transfer will demand a shift of emphasis from internal OpsRoom management to information and mission management. Versatile MaritimeForce (VMF) requires broader warfare skills, including activity co-ordinationacross a more diverse range of participants and non-procedural responses tounconventional threats.HFI Technical IssuesFurther automated picture-compilation enhancements signal a trend towardsreduced operator input to lower level processes, and increasing commonality infuture Command Systems and greater use of COTS technology will lead to moreintuitive execution. Through Federation/Confederation, T45 platforms andbeyond will offer progressively higher quality training facilities afloat, increasingthe scope for greatly improved OJT and Warfare Team Training (WTT), withcompensating efficiencies in shore training. These capabilities are nowtechnically mature and the opportunity can be seized.The following issues concerning training for Warfare teams need to beaddressed:• The characteristics of operator and maintainer training ashore and at seaneed to match the requirements and opportunities of jobs at sea.• The effectiveness of the transfer of operator-maintainer and other skillsfrom shore training to training at sea needs careful evaluation.• Training needs to stretch the capabilities of operators beyond that which isusually achievable during peacetime conditions.• Where training functions are embedded in the Combat System there is arisk of confusing real and synthetic contacts, which needs to be addressed.• The Warfare team cannot be wholly trained at sea as operators need to befamiliar with equipment before they can be involved effectively in teamtraining.• Some tasks may only be learned adequately at sea, e.g. submarine specialoperations and deep-sea rescue.• Changes in the types of user roles in future Combat Systems will alsorequire a fundamental re-evaluation of the way in which skills andknowledge are developed. Skills decay is a major problem given thecomplexity of new Combat Systems. This is only partially offset bystandardisation of the user-equipment interface and the use of automation.Embedded training facilities and user support facilities can be used tomaintain the currency of skills, although the chosen solution must allow theuser to distinguish between real-world and synthetic situations.Nov 2006 Page 7-7 Issue 4