Soldier Performance of Military Operational Tasks Conducted While Wearing Chemical Individual Protective Equipment (IPE): Data Analysis in Support of the Revision of the U.S. Army Field Manual on NBC Protection (FM 3-4).

摘要

The BRL was contracted by the U.S. Army Chemical School (USACMLS) to identify, review and conduct exploratory data analysis of newly-acquired data related to soldier performance of military operational tasks while wearing chemical IPE. This BRL work was conducted in support of the revision of 'Appendix A' entitled 'Performance Degradation Data in a Chemical Warfare Environment' of the U.S. Army Field Manual on NBC Protection. This report describes (a) the U.S. Army P2NBC2 Database, (b) a computer program that interfaces with the Database, and (c) data analysis of selected data fields contained in the Database. Analysis included investigation of the Performance Decrement Factor (PDF), Human Ability Code, Human Sub-Ability Code, and Action Verb Code P2NBC2 Database data fields.