Innovative Methods to Acquire and Adapt Soldier Skills (INMASS) in the Operational Environment

摘要

This report documents an effort initiated by the U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences (ARI) to (1) specify a set of high-priority competencies required in counter-insurgency (COIN) missions, and (2) identify innovative training methodologies to help Soldiers acquire cognitive competencies for COIN. The analysis focused only on high-priority cognitive competencies. Following the analysis of COIN cognitive competencies, faculty from the Consortium Research Fellows Program (CRFP) identified innovative approaches to train performance of the competencies and their corresponding knowledge, skills, abilities, and attitudes (KSAAs). The CRFP consultants documented their recommended approaches in white papers that also examined requirements for development and implementation. The research team then considered the applicability of the training approaches to the identified COIN cognitive competencies and the feasibility of each approach for incorporation into the U.S. Army's training system in order to prioritize the training methodologies accordingly. As a result, recommendations were made on further development of the training approaches and multimedia demonstrations of the three most promising approaches were created and included in this report to promote future training development efforts.