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DEVELOPING A TRAINING TIME Sr PROFICIENCY MODEL FOR ESTIMATING<br />

AIR FORCE SPECIALTY TRAINING REQUIREhlENTS OF NEW WEAPON SYSTEMS<br />

David S. Vaughan Winston R. Bennett<br />

Jimmy L. Mitchell SC J. R. Knight David V. Buckenmyer<br />

McDonnell Douglas Missile Training Systems Division<br />

Systems Company Air Force Human Resources Laboratory<br />

Abstract<br />

Estimating traiqing costs and training capacity constraints are among the major manpower,<br />

personnel, and training issues in the development of new weapon systems. Use of the recently<br />

developed Training Decisions Modeling Technology in the systems acquisition process is<br />

problematic since no occupational survey data will be available as a basis for modeling the specialty,<br />

its jobs, and its training. This paper reports an innovative experimental approach using subject<br />

matter experts’ ratings of generic skill and knowledge categories for the anticipated work to predict<br />

training time and proficiencies (training setting-specific learning curves). Regression aaalysis<br />

indicates that substantial proportions of the variance in training time curves can be predicted from<br />

such ratings. This approach may improve training decision making and logistic support x~~lyscs<br />

early in the new weapon system acquisition process.<br />

Bacl

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