Large-scale socio-technical systems are cognitive systems and function as suchrnthrough the individual and collaborative cognitive work of the humans in the system. As majorrnsystems have become more information intensive and more distributed, the difficulty ofrnaddressing cognitive challenges has become a troubling area for systems acquisition. Therndiscipline of cognitive systems engineering has methods and tools that can be brought to bear onrnthis problem. In this paper I outline two analytic frameworks that have been developed withinrncognitive systems engineering for design of cognitive work and illustrate how their tools andrnmethods can be deployed to develop the cognitive content of products currently required by thernUS defense acquisition management framework. The strategy I propose for development ofrncognitively-relevant functionality of large-scale systems is to replace inadequate methodsrncurrently in use with the more effective and efficient methods from cognitive systemsrnengineering.
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