Reclaiming Rapid Cognition: Improving Decision-making in Command and Control Agencies by Understanding and Enabling Rapid Cognition; Conference paper

摘要

Rapid cognition decision-making has long been essential to military command and control. With the advent of new technologies that have increased information-flow and connectivity, while reducing delays in data flow, command and control agencies are now at risk of diminishing subordinate leaders' ability to make rapid cognition decisions. This leads to increased time needed to make decisions, as well as decreased quality in decisions made. To regain optimal rapid cognition decision-making, command and control units must make improvements in two areas: training and environment. Training must focus on building rapid-cognition expertise through both passive academic knowledge and active, simulation-based experiential training. Command and control agencies must evaluate current network architectures to ensure they allow appropriate decision-making styles and make necessary changes. This means facilitating rapid cognition decision-making in agencies dealing in current operations and preventing bleed-over from comprehensive analysis-based planning agencies. In order to be effective, the correct application of technology to military agencies must come with study of how it affects human behavior as well as updated education, procedures, and architecture.