Technical b r Report - International Military Testing Association

This lra~s ;IS to our third set 01’ conditions L tla; ten.!:; to affect the
production of usable research and the proper USC’ of ir, tikc interface
between research personnel and training personnel. This may well bc
the area in which the greatest source of our t.rouble lies. Too often
research personnel do not accompany the research report when it is
submitted to training people, do not make a prcse:ltatitin to training
people concerning it , and do not a.ssi,t in its ir,?lcme2tdtir~n.
Clearly, it takes much more initiative on the p.irL of L!le trainfng
people ta deciJe to make changes in their training operation on the
basis of a report than it does 1.0 reach a c!ccisic:l to t3ke :~c~ion
when the ii;iLiior of tile repot-t Jcscribes thr sLudy, cl:::-i!‘ics potnts
that are n,?t understood, and makes logical rc~oxxnciatitins in ;I Cacc
to face situation to the people who are rcsponsibit? for efficient
training i:: the course conceri:ctl. Tht prob,i!~i 1 i :;; of successful
inplementat i,>n is iurtlier enh:~:~cct~i ii the rcst~,tr25er culitinuc‘s t o
work wil.1 cognizant training personnel througll~.. the implementation
of the research results. Normally this does not require d great de.31
of time and in my view, at least, is time better spent than in utilizing
this same time on another research study, with t?le prnbabil ity
that the results of neither of the two studies will be implemented.
We have long known that in implementing any concept, responsibility
for its oc~xrring must be fixed. I ;im tliereii~rk~ suggasting that each
organization engaged in applied K&D sl~ould have ;I sma!i group, rcporting
directly to the Techr.ical Director ol: tO ;ltt! Colrma~din~ Cf I iccr,
whose primaq responsibility is two-fr,ld, first, to Ic7nk externally
to fmplementation 0i RSD products and, second, to look i.ntern.llly to
the design and product ion of products that at-c capable uf being implemented.
Thus , on ~ha one hand this grolup wtr\:ld er.sxrc that RSD
products were properly presented to nppropri.ate Lraining personnel,
normally by the research personnel who did the work, and that assistance
in inplementing the products was continuck! aIs lcng as npproprfate.
On the other hand, prior to approval of an nppl ii-d research project the
group woul\! ;\ssess the prr>bablc s~ileabil ily oc t i.c product Lllat the R&D
project was likely to produce and so advise tl~z- Technic-al Director or
Commanding Officer. If the purpose oi tl~r projcci was to produce a
usable product and the proposed project W;IS juJl;eJ not to bc rapable
ot producing such a product, it would be refcrrt\L? ilack to the orlginator
for revision.
At this point I will give the other members UC tli? pace1 a c!inncc to
express their thoughts, repressetl or othcrwis~:. f hope tlzt they iirc
going to tell us that I a$ the :)nly cne wlicl has c5served t!lc problems
Z have rrilated. that cver;rthing runs smoothly in the training world
with which they are familiar. But we will hnvc to wait and see if
that is in fact the case. The plan for the syr,!:.-siua is to have two
prepared papers, one by a trainer (Ilr. Wal tcr ?kIL~wei 1) .ind one by a
researcher (Dr. %rman Kerr) . Thr papers will r?:en !:e discusscc’ by
Lieutenant Colonel Donald Yead and Dr . . Will inn >:>onan.
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