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Improving Team Readiness through the Convergence of Team Mental Models

Award Information

Agency:
Department of Defense 		Branch:
N/A 		Award ID:
 Program Year/Program:
2011 / SBIR
Agency Tracking Number:
O102-CR7-4259 		Solicitation Year:
2010 		Solicitation Topic Code:
OSD10-CR7 		Solicitation Number:
2010.2
Small Business Information
JXT APPLICATIONS, INC.
1195 Meadow Bridge Drive BEAVERCREEK, OH -
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Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No
 
Phase 1
Fiscal Year: 2011
Title: Improving Team Readiness through the Convergence of Team Mental Models
Agency: DOD
Contract: N00014-11-M-0l24
Award Amount: $99,997.00
 

Abstract:

Cognitive readiness of individuals and teams is of increasing concern in network-centric warfare where teams play an increasingly vital role in networked military operations. Therefore, it is essential to expand the construct of cognitive readiness from individuals to team cognitive readiness through novel representations such as Team Mental Models (TMMs). In addition, there is interest in including tacit knowledge in the cognitive readiness construct to be incorporated in a TMM. This proposal asserts that tacit knowledge is largely the product of implicit learning and is the knowledge structure that is generated by this learning process. Using this theoretical approach, we propose to incorporate tacit knowledge into the appropriate dimensions of the cognitive readiness construct and assess and track it using a TMM conceptual design and innovative technologies available to the JXT Team. We propose to develop technologies to elicit tacit knowledge from team communication data, represent in our TMM conceptual design, develop techniques based on similarity indices to bring the TMM into alignment with team beliefs, and provide effective visualization techniques to foster intuitive understanding of the TMM. We call this tacit knowledge and cognitive readiness research program and prototype development ACRUT (Assessing Cognitive Readiness Using TMMs).

Principal Investigator:

David E. Weldon
Principal Investigator
(937) 321-6372
daveweldon@jxtai.com

Business Contact:

Terrell Fulbright
President/CEO
(937) 431-1566
tfulbright@jxtai.com
Small Business Information at Submission:

JXT Applications, Inc.
1195 Meadow Bridge Drive, Suite C Beavercreek, OH -

EIN/Tax ID: 010712505
DUNS: N/A
Number of Employees:
Woman-Owned: No
Minority-Owned: No
HUBZone-Owned: No