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An Annotated Bibliography of MANPRINT-Related Assessments and Evaluations Conducted by the U.S An Annotated Bibliography of MANPRINT-Related Assessments and Evaluations Conducted by the U.S. Army, 2nd Edition: 1953 to 2009 Volume III – Test and Evaluation Reports by Sam E. Middlebrooks, Ph.D. ARL-SR-190 February 2010 Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. NOTICES Disclaimers The findings in this report are not to be construed as an official Department of the Army position unless so designated by other authorized documents. Citation of manufacturer’s or trade names does not constitute an official endorsement or approval of the use thereof. Destroy this report when it is no longer needed. Do not return it to the originator. Army Research Laboratory Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-5425 ARL-SR-190 February 2010 An Annotated Bibliography of MANPRINT-Related Assessments and Evaluations Conducted by the U.S. Army, 2nd Edition: 1953 to 2009 Volume III –Test and Evaluation Reports Sam E. Middlebrooks, Ph.D. Human Research and Engineering Directorate, ARL Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. REPORT DOCUMENTATION PAGE Form Approved OMB No. 0704-0188 Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing the collection information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing the burden, to Department of Defense, Washington Headquarters Services, Directorate for Information Operations and Reports (0704-0188), 1215 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 1204, Arlington, VA 22202-4302. Respondents should be aware that notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information if it does not display a currently valid OMB control number. PLEASE DO NOT RETURN YOUR FORM TO THE ABOVE ADDRESS. 1. REPORT DATE (DD-MM-YYYY) 2. REPORT TYPE 3. DATES COVERED (From - To) February 2010 Final 30 May 2009–30 September 2009 4. TITLE AND SUBTITLE 5a. CONTRACT NUMBER An Annotated Bibliography of MANPRINT-Related Assessments and Evaluations 5b. GRANT NUMBER Conducted by the U.S. Army, 2nd Edition: 1953 to 2009 Volume III – Test and Evaluation Reports 5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 6. AUTHOR(S) 5d. PROJECT NUMBER Sam E. Middlebrooks, Ph.D. 5e. TASK NUMBER 5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER 7. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION U.S. Army Research Laboratory REPORT NUMBER ATTN: RDRL-HRM-AV ARL-SR-190 Fort Hood, TX 76544-5073 9. SPONSORING/MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 10. SPONSOR/MONITOR’S ACRONYM(S) 11. SPONSOR/MONITOR'S REPORT NUMBER(S) 12. DISTRIBUTION/AVAILABILITY STATEMENT Approved for public release; distribution is unlimited. 13. SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES 14. ABSTRACT The term “manpower and personnel integration” (MANPRINT) was coined in 1984 by General Richard H. Thompson, Commanding General of the U.S. Army Materiel Command. MANPRINT became an official directorate in the Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel in 1987. In 1991, MANPRINT was expanded to include Automated Information Systems (AIS). This report is the second edition of this document and references 583 MANPRINT assessments and evaluations performed by the MANPRINT community as required by U.S. Army Regulation 602-2 that were conducted by the U.S. Army between 1953 and the date of this report in 2009. New to this edition are 443 reports regulated by Army Regulation 73-1 and produced by the Army test and evaluation (T&E) community from 1979 that address MANPRINT issues. Covering both of these categories are 1026 assessment reports related to MANPRINT reported in this bibliography that are covered under AR 73-1 and AR 602-2. While the MANPRINT program was officially established in the late 1980s, there had been work in what was to become many of the MANPRINT domains going back many years. Searches of the available archives in various Army organizational databases and files produced study reports from 1953 onward for work for, and related to, the official MANPRINT program and from 1979 onward for T&E- related work. Readers and users of this bibliography are encouraged to contact the author if additional studies and reports are discovered, or are known to exist, so that they can be included in future editions of this work. 15. SUBJECT TERMS MANPRINT, bibliography, MANPRINT assessment, test and evaluation report, operational evaluation report 17. LIMITATION 18. NUMBER 19a. NAME OF RESPONSIBLE PERSON 16. SECURITY CLASSIFICATION OF: OF ABSTRACT OF PAGES Sam E. Middlebrooks a. REPORT b. ABSTRACT c. THIS PAGE 19b. TELEPHONE NUMBER (Include area code) Unclassified Unclassified Unclassified UU 419 (254) 288-9379 Standard Form 298 (Rev. 8/98) Prescribed by ANSI Std. Z39.18 ii Foreword 1. Introduction. This section provides a general overview of this bibliography along with comments on how to best utilize it in both its manual and automated forms. This publication is intended for those MANPRINT practioners who, for whatever reason, need to know if or what MANPRINT work has been performed on a particular system or system type and when. Also, an inquiry might take the form, ‘… well, I know that Joe Smith did a study on a like system a few years ago…’. This bibliography also serves this type of inquiry and can provide a reference on which systems have been studied and when. The significance is that when a new system study is being contemplated or started then one of the first things the principal investigator (PI) is interested in is what issues have been identified for this type of system in the past to use as a benchmark to see of the new system is being designed with the same problems in it that historical knowledge has shown to be a problem. Because of the size this report has been divided into 3 volumes. Volume I, titled the Index, consists of an introduction to the series and a set of table oriented indexes designed to give the reader the ability to focus into a desired past study when only limited, or no, knowledge exists. All the index tables contain the columns of year of the study, short name for the study, long name for the study, and type of study, i.e., a MANPRINT Assessment (MA) or a Test & Evaluation Report (T&ER). Volume II contains the annotated bibliography of the 583 MA reports reviewed by this paper. MANPRINT Asssessments are performed according to the direction of AR 602-2. They consist of an evaluation of all 7 MANPRINT domains and a summary of the findings. The approving authority for these MAs is the DA G1 for MANPRINT. Once the MA has been approved by this office it is used as an input document for ASARC and Milestone Decision Reviews for the system being evaluated. The lead performing organization for MAs is the Human Research and Engineering Directorate (HRED) of the U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL). ARL-HRED will perform the MPT and HFE portions of the MA directly and will coordinate with other agencies for the other domain reports as appropriate. ARL-HRED will then consolidate all of the domain reports into a draft MA and forward it to DA G1 - MANPRINT for approval. Volume III contains the annotated bibliography of the 443 T&ERs reviewed by this paper. A T&ER is a system evaluation performed according to AR 73-1 for all systems in development in the Army except those developed by MEDCOM and SOCOM. The U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC) conducts these evaluations according to AR 73-1 through its subordinate commands the U.S. Army Evaluation Center (AEC), the U.S. Army Development Command (DTC), and the U.S. Army Operational Test Command (OTC). The Test & iii Evaluation (T&E) process is very structured and typically produces a series of documents related to the system under test that may include (as required) an event design plan (EDP), a test data report (TDR), and a system evaluation report or operational test agency evaluation report (SER before 2008 and OER after 2008). 1.1. Performing Organizations. MANPRINT studies documented in this report were performed by the following organizations: Military Operations Research Society (MORS), Alexandria, VA. U.S. Air Force, Air Proving Ground Center, Eglin Air Force Base, FL. U.S. Army Aviation Technical Test Center, Fort Rucker, AL. U.S. Army Chemical Research and Development Laboratory, Edgewood Arsenal, MD. U.S. Army Combat Systems Test Activity (Prov), Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. U.S. Army Directorate of Flight Standards and Qualification Research, St. Louis, MO. U.S. Army Dugway Proving Ground, UT. U.S. Army Electronic Proving Ground (EPG), Fort Huachuca, AZ. U.S. Army Evaluation Analysis Center (EAC), Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. U.S. Army Evaluation Center (AEC), Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. U.S. Army Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, PN. U.S. Army Human Engineering Laboratory (HEL), Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. U.S. Army Materiel Test and Evaluation Directorate, White Sands Missile Range, NM. U.S. Army Natick Research, Development and Engineering Center, Natick, MA. U.S. Army Operational Test and Evaluation Command (OPTEC), Alexandria, VA U.S. Army Operational Test Command (OTC), Fort Hood, TX. U.S. Army Research Institute (ARI) for the Behavioral and Social Sciences. Alexandria, VA. U.S. Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Human Research and Engineering Directorate (HRED), Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD. U.S. Army Research Office (ARO), Research Triangle Park, NC. U.S. Army Test and Evaluation Command (ATEC), Alexandria, VA. U.S. Army Troop Support and Aviation Materiel Readiness Command, St. Louis, MO. iv U.S. Navy Air Test Center, Patuxent River, MD.
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