I__. - International Military Testing Association

Table 1
Situational Awareness Items: plotting the Battlefield Situation
Current Situation Future Situation
Largest unit engaged
Largest unit approaching
Friendly scout unit
Target reference points
Largest unit outside sector
Support unit to rear
Company's subsequent BP
Obstacle(s) to rear
Enemy scouts to rear . . .
Mortar unit to rear
estimates of the more important location information provided
during the vignette. A five-item series of plotting questions
was developed for both the commander's current situation and
future situation as indicated in Table 1.
The current situation was defined by informational elements
of more immediate concern to the commander including enemy
elements currently being engaged by his unit. The future
situation was defined by less immediate information including
enemy units in the area but well beyond current range, or
information related to his next location, the subsequent BP.
Comorehension and Projection: 18Seeino"
To assess the commander's comprehension and projection of the
battlefield situation, a second SA form was developed. Items on
this form required commanders to compile isolated report
information into aggregate reports, to estimate the size of
designated enemy units including main and attacking units, and to
project the impact of the information received on his unit's
current and future situations. Five close-ended items were
developed for both the current and the future situation, Table 2.
For the current situation the items addressed the commander's
ability to comprehend the more immediate battlefield situation to
the front of his current BP. The first two items required him to
compile reported information received during the vignette into
summary reports detailing the number and type of enemy units
destroyed and damaged by his company, and the number and type of
enemy units still approaching his current BP. The remaining
items addressed the commanderls ability to go beyond the data
actually reported, to understand the nature of the threat facing
both his company unit and the overall task force. These items
asked the commander to estimate in turn the size and type of the
enemy unit actually engaged, the unit approaching his company,
and the total unit committed against the overall task force.
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