November 27, 2002

Trip Report

Department of Defense
Human Factors Engineering Technical Advisory Group (DOD HFE TAG) Meeting #48 –November 01-04, 2002

The 48th meeting of the DoD HFE TAG held in Alexandria, Virginia. The meeting was chaired LCDR Sean Biggerstaff, PMA-205, NAVAIR. Approximately 100 people attended the meeting, representing the US Army, US Navy, US Air Force, OSD, DARPA, DISA/DTIC, NTSB, NASA, FAA, DRDC Toronto, several human factors-related technical societies and industry associations.

Four items are attached:


Plenary Session Presentations:

The DoD HFE TAG Chair for the 48th meeting, LCDR Sean Biggerstaff, welcomed attendees to the meeting and reviewed the theme: Decision Support Systems.

Homeland Security, USAF Perspectives. LCOL Michael R. Fox , Chief, Homeland Defense and Joint Actions, Directorate of Homeland Security, HQ USAF. Several panels and commissions addressed homeland security in one way or another prior to 9-11:
Blue Ribbon Panels:
 DoD Panels:
Also prior to 9-11 were the Beirut Barracks bombing, World Trade Center bombing, Oklahoma City bombing and USS Cole attack So, one might ask ‘what’s new?” The terrorists’ motives are different. The scale of attack is greater. And, the requisite defenses blur distinctions between constabulary and military. Whereas in 1999, NORAD used to have radars and other sensors protecting the borders of CONUS, now there is total coverage of the entire area. In 1999, the Unified Command Plan (UCP) left large parts of the world (including the US!) without any military commands assigned. Needless to say, that is not the case today. Some of the issues involved with matching the US posture to threat expectations are shown in figure 1.


Figure 1. Matching US Posture to the Threat.

When the threat can be anticipated, that is, when we have knowledge what to expect, the US posture can be more focused, more specific and preemptive. But, when we no next to nothing of the threat, the US must base it’s defensive posture on assumptions regarding capabilities in defined areas. Obviously, the more the US knows about it’s threats, the more effective the response can be. The model used by the homeland defense agencies is Recognition => Assessment => Interdiction => Recovery. The DoD is assumed to be involved in the latter three phases.

US Army Medical Communications for Combat Casualty Care (MC4). Mr. Orlando J Illi, Deputy Program Manager, MC4 Product Office. The objective of MC4 is to provide near real-time medical information to support command and control, situational awareness and understanding on the battlefield. The development decision is scheduled for 05 November 2002. Relevant references are:


Some of the expected benefits of MC4 are:

Details may be obtained from https://www.mc4.army.mil.

MC2C and C4IRS – An Impending Revolution in Man-Machine Interface. LCOL Brian Donnelly, USAF Air Force Research Lab, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio, brian.Donnelly@wpafb.af.mil. Today’s systems are generally stove-piped, low bandwidth, labor-intensive in terms of collection and recording, with no common operating picture provided for the users. They also have little interoperability, a large forward footprint, non-standard C2 and provide scattered battlespace snapshots. A recent USAF Scientific Advisory Board (SAB) has referred to today’s systems as “data overload, information- starved.” The overall goal of MC2C is to provide “interoperable data and information exchange” with seamless information exchange between components. Future systems must be encoded with expert logic rules. The operators must learn new skills for these systems (how to mine information form the system, how to ‘threshold’ the automation and how to trust the system. In order to reduce the potential for information overload and error, fusion and correlation must simplify the tactical picture for operators. The system must also protect against self-corroborated data!

Some of the more important human factors issues are:
For current USAF systems (e.g., MC2A (Paul Revere), NCCT, DCGS, TST/TCT, AWACS, AOC, CRC, TBMCS, JSTARS, Multi-Purpose RTIP) , one of the major issues is how to get the various programs to work toward common Human Systems Interface goals. One of the major new thrusts in this area is a new program called “Surveillance and Knowledge Systems (SKS) Initiative,” sponsored by Gary Toth at ONR (gary_toth@onr.navy.mil).

Decision Support to Aviation Safety. Dr. Sandra Hart, NASA, Ames Research Center. Patterns and sequences of events in combination threaten aviation safety more that all the man and machine problems to be encountered. Dr. Hart’s presentation discussed human factors support to aviation safety in contrast to what is needed in support of aviation security. There are major differences also areas where aviation security can benefit from human factors’ experiences. Human factors efforts in the aviation safety arena have, so far, achieved very high safety levels. Opportunities for human factors relative to the security threat are diverse, ill defined and evolving. “Protection in depth” does not exist in aviation security anywhere close to the level currently achieved in aviation safety.

To compare and contrast aviation safety and aviation security domains:


Aviation Safety Aviation Security
Errors just ‘happen’ Security breeches are deliberate
Timing is completely unpredictable Timing is unpredictable (for aviation personnel)
Situation may be recoverable Situation may not be recoverable

The message is that a lot of human factors expertise has been applied to aviation safety, much of which could also be applied to aviation security with positive result. Human factors community can infuse the rush to technology with common sense to help mitigate against unintended consequences and offer alternatives.

Decision Aiding in Shuttle “Glass Cockpit.” Robert S. McCann, NASA Ames (rmccann@mail.arc.nasa.gov) and Jeffery McCandless, San Jose State University. Two of the Space shuttles are still equipped with the original 3-CRT cockpit! The remaining shuttles are fitted with 9 flat panel displays. However, in order to minimize the impact of the new technologies, most of the old CRT displays were carried over to the new displays. Over the last two years, Johnson Space Center personnel have worked to define new display that will take advantage of the new flat panel color displays. Tasks are to consolidate and better arrange displayed information, make better use of graphical display capabilities and make good use of color. Goals are to improve Situational awareness (SA), reduce workload and improve overall performance. The timetable is to complete format programming and evaluation by 2004, implement the new formats by 2005 and fly them in 2006.

MANPRINT Update. Dr. Michael Drillings, Deputy director of the US Army’s MANPRINT Office, Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-1, DAPE-MR, Army, Pentagon.
MANPRINT is the Army’s implementation of the DoD Human Systems Integration (HIS) program. Initial implementation of MANPRINT on the Apache program resulted in about $3 billion in cost avoidance. The MANPRINT office is staffed with only 4-6 professionals.
The program management offices and contractors actually “do” the MANPRINT activities with the MANPRINT office providing guidance and advice. Army Regulation 602-1 (1 June 2001) provides the requirements for MANPRINT. The MANPRINT office is expanding its responsibilities to include the application of ‘cognitive engineering’ principles to minimize soldier cognitive workload and task complexity on the job.

NAVSEA-03 - Human Systems Integration Directorate. Mr. J. Robert Bost, Technical Director, NAVSEA-03. Manpower, personnel and training have been moved out of “supportability” and into the new SEA-03 HSI Directorate. SEA-03 is now focusing on ‘sailor performance.’ Key responsibilities of the new directorate are:

Mr. Bost reminded everyone that 71% of the Navy TOA (Total Obligational Authority) is related to people. NAVSEA recognizes this and decided to concentrate it’s HSI resources in a single directorate to ensure maximum concentration coordination of people-related efforts. Mr. Bost also reminded the audience that there would be an HSI symposium (the theme is “Enhancing Human Performance in Naval & Joint Environments”) in June 2003 at Tyson’s Corner, Virginia.

USAF Human Systems Integration Update. Major Robert Lindberg, Brooks Air force Base, San Antonio, TX. (Robert.lindberg@brooks.af.mil). At this time, the US Air force is the only service that does not have an HSI representative sitting on system development milestone decision boards. The Navy and Army have acquisition waivers in effect now that allows application of human engineering design standards as requirements; only the USAF must limit application of MIL-STD-1472 as guidance on contracts. The Air Force is developing an e-learning course to teach HIS impacts. Contact Major Lindberg for details.

Sub-Group Meetings Attended at the DoD HFE TAG:
Design: Tools and Techniques. Mr. John Lockett jlockett@arl.army.mil), US Army Research Lab, chaired the SubTAG meeting. The first presenter was Ms. Susan Archer (sarcher @maad.com) who spoke on the “Micro Saint Product Family” (Figure 3). She traced the roots of the current family of Micro Analysis and Design, Inc. product line. Micro Saint, is a:


Figure 3. Micro Saint Product Family

Ms. Archer updated everyone on the basic Micro Saint model, indicating that it is now faster, modular and interoperable (with SOAP, COM, sockets, embedded). It now handles strings/Booleans, has enhanced debugging features and has an enhanced look-and-feel.

The next presenter was Mr. Keith Hendy (Keith.Hendy@drdc-rddc.gc.ca), DRDC Toronto, who spoke on the “Integrated Performance Modeling Environment (IPME)”, one of the models in the Micro Saint family tree. This model was a joint development of the U.K. and Canada. It contains several information processing models (UK’s POP, Canada’s IP/PCT, Windex and VACP). The current version is v2.13. It supports DIS and HLA. The Human Factors analysis Tool (HFAT is a companion to IPME. It is a front-end analysis tool (function allocation, OSD auto-drawing, documentation management). It is based on hierarchical goal analysis that has its origins in perceptual control theory.

Near term goals for IPME are to stabilize version 2, address the bug list, validate the code and complete HFAT. Next items on the agenda are to merge the UK POP and IP/PCT models, add models representing human memory, develop team and organizational models, populate IPME with models from all HSI domains, link IPME with a human manikin and perform cross-model validation.

The next presenter was Patricia W. Kilduff (pkilduff@arl.mil), with US Army Research Lab, who spoke on “Command, Control, Communication: Techniques for Reliable Assessment of Concept Execution (C3 Trace)”. This model is also in the Micro Saint family tree. This model generates human performance models for what-if analysis of alternate organizations, personnel and system configurations. Inputs include the organization, personnel, tasks and functions. Outputs include task data, workload data, utilization data and information for decision-making. It allows for calculation of information quality as it moves through the model. C3 TRACE was delivered in August 2002 (version 1.1). It contains a model of a fire control coordination cell. The current work is looking at Command and Control in complex and urban environments. In the future, the model will be applied to the Army’s Future Combat system (FCS).


Mr. John Lockett spoke on IMPRINT Status and Plans. Thus far, 189 copies of IMPRINT have been distributed.
Army 75 Navy 13
USAF 8 Other Gov 2
Contractors 81 Universities 10

The current version of IMPRINT is 7.xx: XGA compatible, 32 bit, Microsoft C++, Crystal Reports. It has updated personnel data; interfaces to add customized stressors; improved training effects; and, enhanced maintainability models. It can dynamically subscribe and unsubscribe entities to the server. In the future, there may be collaboration with the Navy on Manpower and Personnel issues. Currently, the model is being used in support of eight different army programs. There is an IMPRINT web page (Http://www.arl.army/ARL-Directorates/HRED/imb/imprint/imprint.htm).

Dr. Laurel Allender (lallende@arl.mil) , US Army Research Lab, spoke on “IMPRINT/ACT-R Integration”. These tow models integrate easily because IMPRINT’s tasks are ACT-R’s goals. Current activities include examining different ways of integrating the models (e.g. should IMPRINT call ACT-R when it needs help or should ACT-R drive task choice in IMPRINT?). Model communications efficiency is also being studied. The combined model is being used on the Demo III Vehicle where it is being used to predict errors, evaluate Robot/Operator ratio and influence design.

Human Factors In Extreme Environments. The first presentation was by Lance Molnar, PhD (Biotech, Inc.) on “Ocular Screening Instrumentation”. The eyes reflect the general health and function of the body. The purpose of the effort being reported on was to determine specific ocular signals/bio-markers associated with particular conditions and states that might be associated with toxins. The goal is to develop a fieldable, non-invasive, hand-held device that can be used for diagnosis. A second-generation system would be integrated, personalized and capable of continual/repetitive screening and prediction. The first-generation system is equipped with a small CCD camera, multiple light sources (including IR), auto-focus optics, digital signal processor, power/electronics and image capture and analysis software. The conditions looked for include:


The present projects include looking for presence of the following materials:

In the future, projects will focus on decompression sickness, evidence of blunt trauma injury (detection of internal bleeding), fatigue (pupil oscillations with lactic acid buildup), laser tyt injury, drug/alcohol testing, concussion, general health information. This project is being done in collaboration with West Virginia University and Walter reed Institute of research. Current funding is from DARPA - Persistence in Combat program (PIC).

The next presentation was by Mihriban Whitmore (mwhitmor@ems.jsc.nasa.gov), NASA/JSC, who spoke on “Space Human Factors Technology Development Projects”. NASA is working on International Space Station and Space Shuttle programs. Current projects include: multi-purpose crew restraint, emergency medical procedures for ISS, defibrillator, usability testing of emergency procedures and HF evaluation of the current medical checklist. In the long term the focus will be on habitability, anthropometry, noise and lighting.

The last presentation was by Mark Shepanek from NASA HQ. They are investigating some of the bigger challenges having to do with extended space flight such as radiation exposure, micro-gravity, isolation and confinement, sustained high (65-85 Decibels), circadian rhythm upset and temperature extremes.

Human Factors Standardization (HFS) Mr. Alan Poston, FAA, chaired the meeting (alan.poston@faa.gov). The SubTAG website is: http://dtica.dtic.mil/hftag/hfs.html. Mrl Dave Britton will be the next SubTAG chair. Paul Wolfowitz, deputy secretary of Defense, issued new acquisition guidance last week, replacing the DODD 5000 series. HSI was specifically addressed in one of the tabs.

MIL-STD-1472F. Redesignation as an Interface Standard is not going smoothly. The US Navy currently has a waiver in place that allows their use of the mil-standard as a requirement – this expires in August 2003. The US Army just recently renewed their waiver.
MIL-STD-1787: No input.
MIL-STD-882D: Suggested adding an appendix to the mil-std to extend safety metrics to three dimensions.
Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES)/ISO/TC159:
HFES 100, “Human Factors Engineering of Computer Workstations” is out for trial use-not to exceed three years. The previous version addressed only one reference posture (upright seated). This version addresses four postures (upright seated, reclined seated, declined seated, and standing).
HFES-200 on VDT software – Submitted for trial use
HFES-300 on Guidelines for using anthropometry in product design – in preparation for trial use.
HFES-400 on guidelines/instructions for commercial products – on hold.

  1. NASA MSIS: Mr. Cletis Booher indicated that NASA-STD-3000 is now an ISO document (17399). He also provided an update on the MSIS effort, which is now developing exploration class mission requirements. This class includes multi-year exploration missions. A database (HFE requirements, draft future requirements, emerging research and technology, action items, research publications and contact information) is being assembled using the Dynamic Object Oriented Requirements System (DOORS). Clete can be contacted at (281) 483-8951 or cletis.r.booher@jsc.nasa.gov. Ms. Teresa Alley reminded attendees that the TAG/HFS SubTAG website provides access to a variety of specs, standards and handbooks.
  2. Data Item Descriptions (DIDs): FAA and the US Navy have retained most of the DIDs previously written to cover human factors engineering deliverables.
  3. Index of Non-Government Standards: Alan Poston has completed the latest update. It will be available from the TAG web page shortly.
  4. Gateway: Mr. Tom Metzler indicated that the upcoming HSIAC Gateway publication in June 2003 would feature articles on human factors standards.

Human Factors Test and Evaluation. The first presenter was Major Terence Andre (terence.andre@williams.af.mil), AFRL/HEA, Mesa, AZ who spoke on “Analysis of Advanced Technology Needs for USAF Flying Training.” Survey questionnaires were given to instructor and student pilots of the T-1, T-38, AT-38B, T-38C, F-15, T-6 and F-16 aircraft. The survey questions consisted of:

The objective was to examine the relative value of the various technologies (e.g. mission planning, simulation, displays) to basic and advanced flying training. General issues were:

Recommendations include:

The second presentation was by Mr. Stan Levine, who spoke on “System of Systems Evolutionary Acquisition.” The primary point that Mr. Levine made was that the services must coordinate and synchronize the acquisition of systems that must be interoperable. Relevant questions are: What can be done to assure that systems will actually work together? And, what can be done to assure that as they are “improved” over their acquisition cycles, they stay interoperable? The problem is very difficult to solve because often the multiple contractors are not tasked, funded or required to be interoperable and there is generally little or no follow-up. Interoperability is a “3 dimensional problem” in that the systems must be designed (what) and fielded (where) at the proper times (when) to be interoperable. The ‘key’ is that information must be shared between acquisition teams and that interoperability problems must be addressed and solved by all the affected teams. “Software blocking” is an Army term being used now to cover the certification and operational evaluation of systems designed to be interoperable with each other prior to their availability for operational use. This policy was determined at the “4-star” level. The US Army is currently attempting to work the interoperability problem for 200 systems. The primary reasons why systems don’t interoperate? – Failure to adhere to common message standards and failure to implement common interfaces. More subtle issues such as lack of common definition of meanings of messages between systems or other human factors issues have yet to be addressed.

The third presentation was by Dr. Norman Warner (warnerw@navair.navy.mil), NAWC-AD, Patuxent River, MD on “Achieving Collaborative Knowledge in Asynchronous Collaboration.”
This is a 6.2 effort in its first year of a 4-year program. They are trying to solve the problem of coordinating and maintaining high levels of performance for multi-disciplinary decision-making teams that are supported by technology, distributed over time and space (location) and dealing with issues such as changing participants and complex data-rich environments. The team is looking at the effects of knowledge distribution among the different team members.

The last presentation was by Dr. Jan Cannon-Bowers, who until recently has been supporting the Navy’s “Task force Excel” effort. She spoke on “Measuring Performance in Complex Systems.”


Figure 2. Performance Measurement Scheme

Conclusions of the presentation were:


Human Modeling and Simulation. The first presenter was Dr. Ruth Willis (Navy Research Lab), who spoke on “Challenges to the Modeling and Simulation Community in High Fidelity Systems”. There have been several good summary studies on modeling and simulation:

Roadblocks to progress:

But, there is an increasing demand now for non-maneuvering models and the research base for human behavior is increasing. NRL is integrating human behavior representations (HBR) in Immersive environments for MOUT (Military Operations in Urban Terrain). They are using full body avatars driven by humans. The work on human modeling and user interfaces will be sufficiently mature in FY 06 to merge them into a complete system – immersive MOUT. In this system, computers will track the avatars more closely, resulting in much more realism. They are putting lots of effort into getting computer-generated forces to act naturally with regard to timing, accuracy, variability, error-making, ability to coordinate actions, susceptibility to stress, etc. A main goal of this work is to push for highest possible fidelity in computer generated models.

The next presenter was Mr. Kevin A. Gluck, PhD (kevin.gluck@williams.af.mil), AFRL, Williams Air Force Base, Mesa, AZ, who spoke on “Modeling Pilot Behavior to Enhance Performance in UAVs”. Their approach is to perform empirical research and develop computational process models for understanding human performance and learning. The current research is in Visio-spatial working memory and modeling of the UAV operator. They are using a ‘path visualization’ task to stress the visual/spatial working memory and are gathering data to help their model development. They are using a PC-based Predator UAV control system that includes basic maneuvering, reconnaissance and landing tasks. Displays include a HUD, task screen, ground camera scene and tracker map. In their experimentation, subjects perform seven different UAV maneuvers. Subject performance was later compared to the performance of their model. Currently, the model places a higher than desired weighting on control instruments than performance instruments. They are currently working to adjust the model to more closely match actual performance.

The next presenter was Mr. Derek Brock, Navy Research Laboratory who spoke on “Validating Models of Human Behavior”. He spoke on the various levels and kinds of validation, such as:

The last presenter was Dr. Laurel Allender, (lallende@arl.mil) US Army research Laboratory, who spoke on “Acquisition, System design & Human Behavior Representation: An ARL-HRED Perspective”. HRED is addressing the issue of how to best support programs such as Objective Force Warrior with modeling and simulation support. Specifically, they are asking how cognitive performance can be represented. HRED has three thrusts of investigation:

System Safety/Health Hazards/Survivability. Mr. Ben Gibson, AMEDDC&S (ben.Gibson@amedd.army.mil) chaired the meeting. Steve Merriman was nominated and accepted as SubTAG co-chair. Mr. Gibson indicated that initial attempts at getting the human dimension added to MIL-STD-882 failed. However, current work is aimed at adding an appendix to the mil-std.

The first speaker was Mr. Tom Mitchell (tmitchell@chiinc.com), of Chi Systems, Inc. who spoke on “Training and Operational Factors Affecting the Incidence of G-LOC in Aircrew”. This effort was funded by OSD’s office of Live fire Test and Training. The investigators included John Deaton, Bill Duncan, CDR Rick Mason, and Col Jimmy Wilson (ret.). In phase I, they performed keyword searches of Navy and USAF safety center records, analyzed 400+ summaries, further analyzed 269 G-LOC related summaries, organized data by service (basic training and operational) distributed questionnaires to the Fleet and performed Fleet interviews.

Follow-on tasks have included:

CHI Systems Inc. personnel reanalyzed the data, looked at the Navy’s 3 previous year’s of data and performed 60 interviews. Some other issues identified were:

Recommendations include more realistic centrifuge training, cross-service standardization of centrifuge training syllabi, and addition of another Navy centrifuge site.

The next speaker was Dr. M.R Fletcher (fletcherm@natick.army.mil), Army Research Lab, who spoke on “Reducing the Slipperiness of CBPS Flooring”. CBPS flooring is used in Army Field Hospital tents. Since it must be easy to decontaminate, the floor is coated with Teflon. When wet, it is extremely slippery and dangerous. A variety of nonskid materials were tested under wet and dry conditions. Two materials, one best under dry conditions and one best under wet conditions, were applied to the bottom of Army boots in small circles. ARL report ARL-TR-2639, March 2002 reports results.

Technical Society/Industry Sub-Group. The Technical Society/Industry (TS/I) SubTAG met twice during TAG #48 on Tuesday morning and afternoon. Thirteen participants attended the meetings, representing five societies/technical groups. Steve Merriman (stephen.c.merriman@boeing.com or scmerriman@attbi.com) chaired the meetings. Attendees introduced themselves and the TS/I membership rosters were updated.

Presentation: Dr. Michael Tulloch, 3 Sigma Research, Inc (mtulloch@tulloch.org) described current research being conducted under a Small Business Innovative Research (SBIR) contract with Rome Laboratories. There are two distinct parts of SBIR: User Interface (UI) component development and a general test environment. The first task was to create novel controls for multi-sensor information. We have generalized the concept of Ben Schneiderman's Alpha Slider to include complex alphanumeric data. Our new "InfoSlider" controls have been developed in Java. Java allows the tool to be easily adapted to a variety of modern programs including HTML based programs.
The InfoSlider will be used as part of Rome Laboratories' J-Views 3-D data display software. J-Views provides very fast three-dimensional rendering of complex data. J-Views is also written in Java. Rome Laboratories recently use J-Views to support activities in Afghanistan by rapid prototyping terrain data. It was use to replace a DSS unable to respond within necessary timeframe.
The second task of the SBIR was development of an environment for testing applications. This environment is a scientifically based Case Study methodology called the Visualization Evaluation Environment or VEE. It contains a methodology used to evaluate and test visualization components. An article by Kitchenham and Pickard ("Case Studies for Method and Tool Evaluation." IEEE Software, July 1995) discusses methods for evaluating software development tools. While their focus was the software development environment, there are many strong parallels to developing multi-sensor analysis programs and software programs. Developers and procurement agencies must move beyond the art of system creation to a scientifically based approach. Based upon this philosophy, VEE provides tools essential for such an effort.
At the end of phase I, a study will be conducted using a preliminary implementation of the InfoSlider, a preliminary implementation of VEE, and VEE measurement components (Question presentation & Response Time measurement). The test procedure was also developed using VEE. The test uses a primitive FAA ARTCC display supporting tasks intended for laymen users.

Old Business: Nominations were solicited for the position of TS/I chair. Mr. William Lytle, representing the Aerospace Medical Association/Human Factors Association was elected by voice vote. Nominations will be solicited at the Spring 2004 meeting, with installation of the next chair at the fall 2004 meeting. Congratulations to Bill!
New Business: Mr. Tom Metzler, HSIAC Director, indicated that there would be a workshop on “Usability Assurance” in about six months. He indicated that some of the British human factors personnel responsible for authoring a new ISO standard on usability assurance would be requested to make presentations at this workshop.

Web Page. Ms. Teresa K. Alley solicited inputs from the members for the TS/I’s web page (http://dtica.dtic.mil/hftag/tsi.html). A variety of announcements, events, publications, etc. are available via the TS/I page.

Non-Government Standards Update. Mr. Alan Poston (alan.poston@faa.gov) indicated that the Index of Non-government standards (NGS) has been completed – thanks especially to Ms. Faith chandler (NASA HQ) for her support. It will be posted on the TAG’s website. This update includes web addresses for each standard as well as addresses for each of the standardization organizations.
Hot Issues: Ms Faith Chandler has authored a form for submittal of new hot issue items.

Success Stories: The Success Stories document, tabled in 1999, is being reactivated. The TAG chair will be soliciting new success stories from the various service representatives and SubTAG chairs in the near future.

Sustained/Continuous Operations (SUSOPS/CONOPS). (not attended)

Tri-Service Workload Coordinating. (not attended.)

User-Computer Interface. (not attended)

Controls and Displays. (not attended)

Human Factors in Telemedicine and Biomedical Technologies. (not attended)

Human Factors Engineering/Human Systems Integration: Management and Applications. (not attended)

DoD HFE TAG Operating Board Meeting:
  1. TAG Coordinator Contract - Contract modification was recommended to allow the TAG coordinator to visit 2 meeting sites per year
  2. MATRIS – shift in efforts to expand the content and utility of the HFE TAG website
  3. TAG Minutes - TAG Minutes will be posted on the website NLT 45 days following the meeting. TAG minutes will consist of a draft document hosted on the website. Hard copies will be sent only to a list of VIPs that the coordinator will maintain and to those individuals who request them. Everyone else will receive an email message with a link to the document. “Synopses” will be requested instead of abstracts. SubTAG chairs will remind presenters that minutes will be posted on the website accessible to all; therefore the presenters may want to get permission before submitting a synopsis for inclusion in the minutes. If presenters do not want synopses submitted, the SubTAG chair will list the name of the presenter and the title only.
  4. Plenary Session Planning - The host organization’s representative will provide a paragraph on the theme for the next meeting NLT the end of the current meeting. The Executive Committee will identify speakers for the next plenary session based on the selected theme. Ultimate coordination of events still resides with the incoming TAG chair.
  5. Up-Coming meetings:
TAG-49 - Augusta, GA 12-15 May 2003; Army to host.
TAG-50 - Phoenix, AZ area – dates/location not yet finalized; likely 27-30 October 2003; Air Force to host.
TAG-51 - Pleasantville/Atlantic City, NJ; FAA Tech Center – FAA to host
TAG Policies– a number of revisions have been made to the TAG charter. An electronic copy of the revisions will be sent to the operating board (see attached document).
f. Caucus and SubTAG Issues
g. Dr. Foster’s Challenges
The operating board discussed whether the DoD HFE TAG is a conference/working group or is an advisory group. The consensus was that the group should play an advisory role. The subsequent discussion dealt with the processes by which the TAG should respond to challenges or requests from our proponent.
h. Success Stories Document–
The TAG will post validated success stories on the website. Mr. Steve Merriman will send a text version of the success stories to the Executive Committee and Ms. Alley will post them.
i. Core Competency Site - Each SubTAG chair will provide a list of sites (locations) for their topic area where DoD/NASA/FAA expertise exists to the coordinator. In addition an appropriate POC (with phone number or email address) for those locations should be provided. The coordinator will compile the list. Ms. Alley will design a web page to accommodate this. As an example to the SubTAG chairs, for SUSOPS…the lab locations are NASA Ames, Brooks AFB, NHRC, ARI (Rucker) and the POCS are Dr. Jim Miller, Walter Carr, and Dr. Caldwell. SubTAGs must provide this information by January 30th.
j. Human Factors Hot Issues - A new form for submission of these issues to the Executive Committee is attached. The instructions should be self-explanatory. The TAG chair is responsible for tracking these issues and providing feedback to the members (via cc to Caucus reps).
k. JWCO document - At the next TAG meeting we will have a working session to make recommendations to the Warrior Readiness Joint Warfighter Capabilities and Objectives document. To facilitate this, the SubTAG chairs will be assigned certain topic areas in the document. At the meeting you (SubTAG chair) will have to stand up and tell us what changes are recommended to this section. It is up to you how you staff this (bring in a topic expert or gather their input beforehand).
l. Lessons Learned Document - Dr. Foster has tasked us with coming up with a lessons learned source for HF methodologies. The TAG Chair’s suggestion is to choose a single case (specific program) and identify the plus and minutes of the work done. A good example would be DD21, now DDX, and what was learned through that process. LCDR Sean Biggerstaff will be setting up a teleconference in the near future to get this going.
m. C4ISR - The C4ISR tasking is being worked through HSIAC.


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DoD HFE TAG Background

The DoD HFE TAG was begun via memorandum of agreement signed by the Service Secretaries in November 1976. Goals of the TAG were established as follows:

application of human factors engineering.
technology research, development and application.
selected topical areas.
Technology Coordinating Papers and Topical Reviews.

The TAG addresses research and technologies designed to impact man-machine system development and operation throughout the complete system life cycle. Topics include:

HFE support during system development and modification
design, operation and cost/effectiveness
validation and implementation, and the determination of time windows for application.

The TAG comprises technical representatives from Government agencies with research and development responsibilities in the topical areas mentioned above. Additional representatives from activities with allied interests affiliate with the TAG as appropriate. Technical experts in special topic areas may augment attendance at specific meetings. Also participating in the TAG are official representatives of technical societies (e.g., Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, SAFE Association) and industrial associations (e.g., Electronics Industry Alliance) with a stated interest in HFE. These representatives may attend subgroup and general plenary sessions and they must be credentialed by the TAG prior to attending any meetings.

To facilitate detailed technical information exchange, the TAG is composed of committees and subgroups (or SubTAGs). Committees are established to address specific issues or problems and are disestablished upon completion of their tasks. Subgroups address problems of a general or continuing nature within a specific field of HFE technology. Membership in subgroups and committees may include non-government personnel involved in research, development and application. The association of non-government individuals with the TAG is limited to subgroup/committee interaction; they do not attend TAG plenary sessions. Chairing of the various subgroups and committees is rotated among the Services and in some cases, NASA, as provided in individual charters.

The current sub-groups meeting at the HFE TAG meeting were as follows. The special interest group, “Human Factors in Training,” did not hold a meeting during this TAG.

Applications (HSI)
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Department of Defense
Human Factors Engineering Technical Advisory Group
Meeting 4-7 November 2002, Alexandria, Virginia



Monday, 4 November
0800 - 1000 Executive Committee meeting 1000 - 1100 New member orientation 1100 - 1300 Luncheon Break 1300 - 1700 Plenary Session

Tuesday, 5 November
0730 - 0830 Technical Society/Industry 0830 - 1100 Human Factors Test and Evaluation 0830 - 1100 Sustained/Continuous Operations 0930 - 1000 Networking, coffee 1100 - 1230 Luncheon Break 1100 - 1230 Working Session/Technical Assessment: Warrior Readines
s - Joint War-fighter Capabilities and Objectives (WR JWCO) Document 1230 - 1430 Human Factors Standardization 1230 - 1430 Controls and Displays/Voice-Interactive Systems 1430 - 1500 Networking, coffee 1500 - 1700 Human Factors in Extreme Env
ironments 1730 - 1830 Service Caucuses & Technical Society/Industry Meeting

Wednesday, 6 November
0830 - 1100 Human Modeling and Simulation 0830 - 1100 Tri-Service Workload Coordinating 0930 - 1000 Networking, coffee 1230 - 1430 Design: Tools and Techniques 1230 - 1430 User-Computer Interaction 1430 - 1500 Networking, coffee 1500 - 1700 Human Factors
Engineering/Human Systems Integration: Management and Applications 1500 - 1700 System Safety/Health Hazards/Survivability 1800 - 2100 Tour of Mount Vernon

Thursday, 7 November
0830 - 1000 Operating Board 1000 Meeting Adjournment


ATTACHMENT (3) Current DoD HFE TAG Operating Board




Proponent
Robert E. Foster, Phd
Director, BioSystems
ODUSD(S&T)/ODDR&E/OUSD(AT&L)
3080 Defense Pentagon, Rm 3E801
Washington, DC 20301-3080
(703) 588-7437 DSN 425; FAX (703) 588-7560
robert.foster@osd.mil


Program Coordinator
Ms. Sheryl Cosing
10822 Crippen Vale Ct.
Reston, VA 20194
(703) 925-9791; FAX (703) 925-9694
sherylcosing@earthlink.net








OPERATING BOARD
December 2002


Executive Committee

Current Chair (Navy)
LCDR Sean Biggerstaff
PMA 205-1D, Aviation Training Systems
Naval Air Systems Command, 547123 Buse Road
Patuxent River, MD 20670-1547
(301) 757-8135 DSN 757; FAX (301) 757-6945
biggerstaffs@navair.navy.mil

Chair Select (Air Force)
James C. Miller, Ph.D., CPE
Director, Chronobiology and Sleep Lab
AFRL/HEPM
2504 Gillingham Drive, Ste 25
Brooks AFB, TX 78235
(210) 536-3596 DSN 240; FAX (210) 536-2761
jcmiller@brooks.af.mil

Immediate Past Chair (Army)
Dr. James C. Geddie
2002 Antelope Trail
Harker Heights, TX 76548-2164
(254) 698-6405
geddie.hsiac@usa.com

NASA Representative
Ms. Faith Chandler
NASA Headquarters
300 E. Street, SW
Washington, DC 20546
(202) 358-0411; FAX (202) 358-2778
fchandle@hq.nasa.gov










Army Representative
Ms. Dawn Woods
AMSSB-RSS-E(N) Attn: Dawn Woods
100 Kansas St.
Natick, MA 01760-5020
(508) 233-5069 DSN 256; FAX (508) 233-6472
dawn.woods@natick.army.mil

Navy Representative
LCDR Dylan Schmorrow
DARPA/ITO
3701 North Fairfax Drive
Arlington, VA 22203-1714
(703) 696-0360 DSN 754
dschmorrow@darpa.mil

Air Force Representative
Dr. Kristen Liggett
AFRL/HECI, Bldg. 33
2210 Eighth Street
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7022
(937) 255-8251 DSN 785; FAX (937) 656-4547
kristen.liggett@wpafb.af.mil

FAA Representative
Dr. Thomas McCloy
FAA; AAR-100, Rm. 907
800 Independence Ave., S. W.
Washington, DC 20591
(202) 267-7167; FAX (202) 267-5797
tom.mccloy@faa.gov

Ex Officio Members - SubTAG Chairs

Controls and Displays (Controls)


Dr. Henry Williams
NAWCAD Crew Systems
48110 Shaw Rd., Bldg 2187Unit 5
Patuxent River, MD 20670-1906
(301) 342-9275 DSN 342; FAX (301) 342-9305
williamshp2@navair.navy.mil

Design: Tools and Techniques (Design)
Mr. John Lockett
ARL-HRED
Attn: AMSRL-HR-MB
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-5425
(410) 278-5875 DSN 298; FAX (410) 278-5032
jlockett@arl.army.mil

Human Factors Engineering/Human Systems Integration: Management and Applications (HSI)
LT Sidney Fooshee
NAWCTSD, Air 4962
12350 Research Parkway
Orlando, FL 32826-3261
(407) 380-4258; FAX (407) 380-4007
sidney.fooshee@navy.mil

Human Factors in Extreme Environments (Environments)
Mr. Brad Collie
US Navy Coastal Systems Station, Code E31
6703 West Highway 98
Panama City, FL 32407-7001
(850) 234-4744; FAX (850) 235-5152
colliebe@ncsc.navy.mil

Human Factors in Telemedicine and Biomedical Technologies (Biomed)
LT Walter Carr
Naval Health Research Center
P.O. Box 85122
San Diego, CA 92186-5122
(619) 553-0479 DSN 553; FAX (619) 553-8551
carr@nhrc.navy.mil

Human Factors Standardization (HFS)
Mr. David Britton
ASC/ENOI, Bldg 560
2530 Loop Rd West
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7101
(937) 255-8718 DSN 785; FAX (937) 255-5597
david.britton@wpafb.af.mil

Human Factors Test & Evaluation (T&E)
Mr. Adrian Salinas
311 HSW/XPRA,
2510 Kennedy Circle, Suite 116
Brooks AFB, TX 78235
(210) 536-4428 DSN 240; FAX (210) 536-4475
adrian.salinas@brooks.af.mil
Human Modeling and Simulation (Modeling)
LT Joseph Cohn
Naval Research Laboratory, Code 5580
4555 Overlook Ave. SW
Washington, DC 20375-5320
cohn@ait.nrl.navy.mil
(202) 253-1291

Sustained/Continuous Operation (SUSOPS)
Co-Chairs:



James C. Miller, Ph.D., CPE
Director, Chronobiology and Sleep Lab
AFRL/HEPM
2504 Gillingham Drive, Ste 25
Brooks AFB, TX 78235
(210) 536-3596 DSN 240; FAX (210) 536-2761
jcmiller@brooks.af.mil

Thomas E. Nesthus, PhD
Human Factors Research Laboratory
FAA CAMI
PO Box 25082
Oklahoma City, OK 73125
(405) 954-6297; FAX (405) 954-4852
tom.nesthus@faa.gov


System Safety/Health Hazards/Survivability (SS/HH/Sv)
Co-Chairs:



Mr. Benjamin Gibson
AMEDDC&S
14723 Oak Briar
San Antonio, TX 78232-4679
(210) 221-1622 DSN 471; FAX (210) 221-0121
ben.gibson@amedd.army.mil

Mr. Stephen C. Merriman, MS 269
The Boeing Company c/o Raytheon TI Systems
P.O. Box 660246
Dallas, TX 75266-0246
(972) 344-7578; FAX (972) 664-0092
scmerriman@attbi.com
Technical Society/Industry (TSI)
Mr. William Lytle
AsHF/AsMA
Lockheed Martin Astronautics
PO Box 179 Denver, CO 80201-0179
(303) 971-8972 FAX (303) 971-3174
william.b.lytle@lmco.com

Tri-Service Workload Coordinating (Workload)
Dr. Michael Vidulich
AFRL/HECP
2255 H St
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7022
(937) 255-8734 DSN 785; FAX (937) 255-8752
michael.vidulich@he.wpafb.af.mil

User-Computer Interaction (UCI)
LT Jim Patrey
HQ USAFA/DFBL
2354 Fairchild Drive
USAF Academy, CO 80840-6228
(719) 333-9891 DSN 333; Fax: (719) 333-6711
Jim.Patrey@usafa.af.mil

Affiliated Groups (NO VOTE)

Human Factors in Training Interest Group (Training)
Dr. Bob Nullmeyer
AFRL/HEA
6030 S. Kent St.
Mesa, AZ 85212-6061
(480) 988-6561 x283 DSN 474; FAX (480) 988-6285
bob.nullmeyer@williams.af.mil
ATTACHMENT (4) Registered Attendees – TAG-48

Director Ms. Lisa Achille
U.S. Army Research Lab/HRED NAVAIR
Attn: AMSRL-HR-MB (J. Lockett) 21544 Breton View Court
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-5425 Leonardtown, MD 20650
(410) 278-5875 DSN 298; FAX (410) 278-5032 (301) 342-9706 DSN 342; FAX (301) 342-9305
jlockett@arl.army.mil achillelb@navair.navy.mil
Dr. Laurel Allender Ms. Teresa K. Alley
ARL-HRED DISA MATRIS Office, DTIC
AMSRL-HR-MB NAS North Island Box 357011, Bldg 1482
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21014 San Diego, CA 92135-7011
(410) 278-6233 DSN 298; FAX (410) 278-5032 (619) 545-7384 DSN 735; FAX (619) 545-0019
lallende@arl.mil talley@dticam.dtic.mil
Maj Terence Andre Ms. Susan G. Archer, SCS Rep.
AFRL/HEA Micro Analysis & Design Inc.
6030 S. Kent St. 4900 Pearl East Circle, Suite 201 E
Mesa, AZ 85212-6061 Boulder, CO 80301
(480) 988-6561 x142 DSN 474-6142; FAX (480) 988-6285 (303) 442-6947 FAX: (303) 448-1913
terence.andre@williams.af.mil sarcher@maad.com

Mr. Richard Armstrong LT Rick Arnold
P.O. Box 310728 NOMI, Code 341
Enterprise, AL 36331-0728 340 Hulse Road
(334) 347-3600 Pensacola, FL 32508
dickmar@ala.net (850) 452-2257x1090 DSN 922; FAX (850)
452-2144
 rdarnold@nomi.med.navy.mil
Ms. Laura Bajor Dr. Thomas Balkin, Rm 2A26
AMTEC Corp Walter Reed Army Inst of Research
3102 N. Calvert St. #2 503 Robert Grant Ave.
Baltimore, MD 21218 Washington, DC 20307-5100
(443) 255-0339 (410) 662-7589 (301) 319-9350 DSN 285; FAX (301)
319-9979
lbajor@amtec-corp.com thomas.balkin@na.amedd.army.mil
Ms. Margaret Beecher-Deighan LCDR Sean Biggerstaff, MSC, PhD
NSWCDD/AEPCO Bldg. 2187, Suite 1280-F2, NAWC-AD
10637 High Beam Court 48110 Shaw Rd, Unit 5
Columbia, MD 21044 Patuxent River, MD 20670-1906
(410) 964-5106 (301) 757-8135 FAX (301) 757-6945
beecher@aepco.com BiggerstaffS@navair.navy.mil
Mr. Clete Booher William J. Bramble Jr.
7235 McKeever NTSB, AS-50
Pearland, TX 77584 490 L'Enfant Plaza SW
(281) 483-1847 Washington, DC 20594
creidboo@hotmail.com (202) 314-6354 FAX (202) 314-6369
 bramblw@ntsb.gov
Malcolm Brenner Mr. Bryan Brett
NTSB, AS-50 SAIC
490 L'Enfant Plaza SW 4031 Colonel Glen Highway
Washington, DC 20594 Dayton, OH 45431
(202) 314-6351 FAX (202) 314-6369\ (937) 431-4390 FAX (937) 431-2288
brennem@ntsb.gov bryan.e.brett@saic.com
Evan Byrne Ms. Regan Campbell
NTSB, AS-50 NAVAIR
490 L'Enfant Plaza SW 21457 Cameron Court
Washington, DC 20594 Lexington Park, MD 20653
(202) 314-6352 FAX (202) 314-6369 (301) 342-9250 FAX (301) 342-9305
byrnee@ntsb.gov campbellrh@navair.navy.mil
Ms. Faith Chandler Melanie Chang
NASA Headquarters Naval Surface Warfare Center
300 E. Street, SW 9500 MacArthur Blvd.
Washington, DC 20546 Bethesda, MD 20817-500
(202) 358-0411 FAX (202) 358-2778 changmi@nswccd.navy.mil
fchandle@hq.nasa.gov
Mr. Brad Collie Mr. Thomas Cook
US Navy Coastal Systems Station, Code E31 Army Research Lab, Bldg. 5400 Rm C242
6703 West Highway ATTN: AMSRL-HR-MO
Panama City, FL 32407-7001 Redstone Arsenal, AL 35898-7290
(850) 234-4744 FAX (850) 235-5152 (256) 876-2048 DSN 746; FAX (256) 876-5327
colliebe@ncsc.navy.mil thomas.cook@rdec.redstone.army.mil
Dr. Thomas M. Cook Ms. Sheryl Cosing
ARL-Ft. Huachuca FE, ATTN: AMSRL-HR-MY TAG Coordinator
2520 Healy Ave. Suite 1172 10822 Crippen Vale Ct.
Ft. Huachuca, AZ 85613-7069 Reston, VA 20194
(520) 538-4701 DSN 879; FAX (520) 538-0845 (703) 925-9791 FAX (703) 925-9694
thomas.cook@hua.army.mil; tmcook@arl.army.mil sherylcosing@earthlink.net
Capt Eric Cox LtCol Darrell Criswell
2601 Louis Bauer Drive HQ AFOTEC/TSH
Brooks AFB, TX 78235-5130 8500 Gibson Ave., SE
(210) 536-5267 DSN 240; FAX (210) 536-2335 Kirtland AFB, NM 87117-5558
eric.cox@brooks.af.mil (505) 846-1357 DSN 246; FAX (505) 846-1357
 darrell.criswell@afotec.af.mil
LT Courtney L. Crooks Thomas R. Curran
4710 Prieto Dr. #506 DOT/FAA/ATL-FSDO-11, Campus Bldg.
Pensacola, FL 32506 1701 Columbia Avenue, Sute 2-110
(850) 458-6209 FAX (850) 452-2144 College Park, GA 30337-2748
courtneylcrooks@yahoo.com (404) 305-7249 FAX (404) 305-7337
 thomas.curran@faa.gov
LtCol Brian Donnelly Ms. Marilyn Dudley-Rowley
AFRL/HEC OPS-Alaska c/o Soc Dept Sonomo State Univ.
2255 H Street 1801 E. Cotati Ave.
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7022 Rohnert Park, CA 95928
(937) 255-7573 DSN 785; FAX (937) 255-8752 (707) 730-1037
brian.donnelly@wpafb.af.mil MD_R@hotmail.com
Dr. Linda R. Elliott Phillip Fatolitis
Veridian Engineering 51 Hovey Road
Bldg 170, Suite 203, Brooks City-Base Pensacola, FL 32526
San Antonio, TX 78235 (850) 452-3287x1173 DSN 922; FAX (850) 452-9328
(210) 534-1134 x12 pfatolitis@namrl.navy.mil
linda.elliott@brooks.af.mil
Dr. Robert Fleming Dr. M.R. Fletcher
SSC-SD 20 Pleasant Street
Code 22402 Ashland, MA 01721
San Diego, CA 92152 (508) 233-4356 DSN 256;
(619) 553-3628 DSN 553; (619) 553-9391 fletcherm@natick.army.mil
rfleming@spawar.navy.mil
LT Sidney Fooshee Mr. Terrell W. Fulbright
NAVAIR Orlando Training Systems Division JXT Applications, Inc.
12350 Research Parkway 1122 Brewster Drive
Orlando, FL 32826-3224 Beavercreek, OH 45434
(407) 380-4258 DSN 960; FAX (407) 380-4793 (937) 427-0974 FAX (937) 0974
Sidney.Fooshee@navy.mil twfulbright@jxtai.com
Dr. James C. Geddie Mr. Benjamin Gibson
2002 Antelope Trail AMEDDC&S
Harker Heights, TX 76548-2164 14723 Oak Briar
(254) 698-6405 San Antonio, TX 78232-4679
geddie.hsiac@usa.com (210) 221-1622 DSN 471; FAX (210) 221-0121
 ben.gibson@amedd.army.mil
Ms Kerrie Gruber, M.Ed. Ms. Nancy Grugle
3601 Wilson Blvd Virginia Tech
Arlington, VA 22201 1303 Ascot Lane
(703) 797-3384 Blacksburg, VA 24060
kgruber@sainc.com (540) 951-1519
 ngrugle@vt.edu
Dr. Chris Hale Dr. Kathleen Hannifin
SAIC Learning & Performance Support Lab
4031 Colonel Glen Highway University of GA
Dayton, OH 45431 Athens, GA 30602
(937) 431-4376 FAX (937) 431-4488 (706) 542-3157 (706) 542-4321
christopher.r.hale@saic.com khannafi@coe.uga.edu
LT Chris Hart, MSC, USNR Mr. Keith Hendy
48110 Shaw Rd., Unit 5 DRDC Toronto, PO Box 2000
Bldg 2187, Suite 2280 1133 Sheppard Avenue West
Patuxent River, MD 20670-1906 Toronto, Ontario Canada M3M 3B9
(301) 342-9254 DSN 342; FAX (301) 342-9308 (416) 635-2074 FAX (416) 635-2104
hartcl@navair.navy.mil Keith.Hendy@drdc-rddc.gc.ca
Dagny Johnson Judith A. Johnston, Ed. D
WRAIR, Div of Neuropsychiatry Human Systems IAC, c/o Booz Allen Hamilton
503 Robert Grant Ave. 3190 Fairview Park Drive, #890
Silver Spring, MD 20910 Falls Church, VA 22042
(301) 319-9065 (703) 289-5712 FAX (703) 289-5801
dagny.johnson@na.amedd.army.mil johnston_judith@bah.com
Ms. Pat Kilduff Dr. Christopher Kolanko
US Army Research Lab, HRED MD Biotech, Inc.
ATTN: AMSRL-HR-S(Kilduff) 511 Burroughs Street
Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-5425 Morgantown, WV 26505
(410) 278-5874 DSN 298; FAX (410) 278-5940 (304) 598-1101 FAX (304) 598-1183
pkilduff@arl.mil chriskolanko@mdbiotechinc.com
Dr. Kristen Liggett Maj Robert Lindberg
AFRL/HECI 311 HSW/XPRA
2210 Eighth Street 2510 Kennedy Circle
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7511 Brooks AFB, TX 78235-5115
(937) 255-8251 DSN 785; FAX (937) 656-4547 (210) 536-4457 DSN 240; FAX (210) 536-4475
kristen.liggett@wpafb.af.mil robert.lindberg@brooks.af.mil
LT Loukia Loukopoulos, PhD, MSC Mr. William Lytle
NASA-Ames Research Center AsHF/AsMA Lockheed Martin Astronautics
HF Res & Tech. Div, MS 262-4 PO Box 179
Moffett Field, CA 94043 Denver, CO 80201-0179
(650) 604-2843 (650) 604-3323 (303) 971-8972 FAX (303) 971-3174
llouko@mail.arc.nasa.gov william.b.lytle@lmco.com
Edward A. Martin Dr. Robert McCann
AFRL/HECI, Bldg 146, Rm 122 NASA-Ames Research Center
2210 Eight Street Attn: MS 262-4
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7511 Moffett Field, CA 94035-1000
(937) 255-8072 DSN 785; FAX (937) 656-4547 (650) 604-0052 FAX (650) 604-3323
edward.martin@wpafb.af.mil rmccann@mail.arc.nasa.gov
Dr. Thomas McCloy Dr. Joe W. McDaniel
FAA; AAR-100, Rm. 907 AFRL/HECI
800 Independence Ave., S. W. 2210 8th St, Bldg 146
Washington, DC 20591 Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7511
(202) 267-7167 FAX (202) 267-5797 (937) 255-2558 DSN 785; FAX (937) 656-4547
tom.mccloy@faa.gov joe.mcdaniel@wpafb.af.mil
Ms. Jennifer McKneely Dr. Grant McMillan
11100 Johns Hopkins Rd AFRL/HECP, Bldg. 33
Laurel, MD 20723 2255 H St
(240) 228-7476 FAX (240) 228-6667 Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7022
jennifer.mckneely@jhuapl.edu (937) 255-8750 DSN 785; FAX (937) 255-8752
 grant.mcmillan@wpafb.af.mil
Major Joe Menchaca, Jr. Mr. Stephen C. Merriman
AFRL/CCN The Boeing Co.c/o Raytheon MS 269
2275 D Street, Rm 155 P.O. Box 660246
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7217 Dallas, TX 75266-0246
(937) 656-9085 DSN 986; FAX (937) 656-5368 (972) 344-7578 FAX (972) 664-0092
jose.menchaca@wpafb.af.mil stephen.c.merriman@boeing.com,
 scmerriman@attbi.com
Mr. Thomas Metzler Dr. Thomas M. Mitchell
Booz Allen/HSIAC CHI Systems, Inc.
Bldg. 196, 2261 Monahan Way 2 John Dyer Way
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7022 Doylestown, PA 18901
(937) 255-6623 DSN 785; FAX (937) 255-4823 (407) 277-4288 FAX (407) 277-0625
thomas.metzler@wpafb.af.mil tmitchell@chiinc.com
Dr. Lance Molnar Dr. Jennifer Narkevicius
MD Biotech, Inc. ARINC, Inc.
511 Burroughs Street 44423 Airport Rd, Suite 300
Morgantown, WV 26505 California, MD 20619
(304) 598-1101 FAX (304) 598-1183 (301) 863-2300 FAX (301) 863-2331
lancemolnar@mdbiotech.com narkeviciujm@navair.navy.mil
Dr. Thomas Nesthus Dr. Denise Nicholson
FAA CAMI, AAM-510 NAVAIR ORL TSI
P.O. Box 25082 12350 Research Parkway
Oklahoma City, OK 73125 Orlando, FL 32826
(405) 954-6297 FAX (405) 954-4852 (407) 380-4819 FAX (407) 381-8738
tom.nesthus@faa.gov denise.lyons@navy.mil
LT Jim Patrey Mr. Jake Pearson
HQ USAFA/DFBL Micro Analysis and Design, Inc.
2354 Fairchild Drive 4949 Pearl E. Circle, #300
USAF Academy, CO 80840-6228 Boulder, CO 80301
(719) 333-9891 DSN 333; Fax: 719-333-6711 (303) 442-6947 FAX (303) 442-8274
Jim.Patrey@usafa.af.mil jpearson@maad.com
1Lt Jim Peoples LT Henry Phillips
Air Force Research Laboratory Naval Aerospace Medical Institute
3007 SE Military Apt 4104 340 Hulse Road
San Antonio, TX 78223 Pensacola, FL 32508
(210) 632-0866 DSN 240; FAX (210) 632-2761 (850) 452-2257x1091 FAX (850) 452-2144
james.people@brooks.af.mil hlphillips@nomi.med.navy.mil
Mr. Eric Pierce Ms. Beth Plott
6703 W. Highway 98, Code E31 Micro Analysis and Design, Inc.
Panama City, FL 32407 4949 Pearl E. Circle, #300
(850) 235-5595 DSN 436 Boulder, CO 80301
PierceEC@ncsc.navy.mil (303) 442-6947 FAX (303) 442-8274
 bplott@maad.com
Mr. Alan Poston Ms. Colby Raley
Federal Aviation Administration, AND-202 Strategic Analysis/DARPA
800 Independence Ave. SW, Rm 339 3601 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 500
Washington, DC 20591 Arlington, VA 22201
(202) 493-4519 (571) 218-4310 FAX (703) 741-0220
alan.poston@faa.gov craley@snap.org
Ms. Jill Ritter Mr. Adrian Salinas
AFRL/HESR 311 HSW/XPRA,
367 Birdsong Dr. 2510 Kennedy Circle, Suite 116
Vandalia, OH 45377 Brooks AFB, TX 78235
(937) 255-4250 FAX (937) 255-4250 (210) 536-4428 DSN 240; FAX (210) 536-4475
jill.ritter@wpafb.af.mil adrian.salinas@brooks.af.mil
Dr. James Sampson LCDR Dylan Schmorrow
22 Robin Hill Road DARPA/ITO
Holliston, MA 01746 3701 North Fairfax Drive
(508) 233-4698 DSN 256; FAX (508) 233-6472 Arlington, VA 22203-1714
james.sampson@natick.army.mil (703) 696-0360 DSN 754;
 dschmorrow@darpa.mil
Lt Jennifer Smith CDR Tim Steele
Air Force - Brooks OUSD (S&T)/Human Systems
5239 Eisenhauer Rd., Apt. 1113 1777 N. Kent St., Ste 9030
San Antonio, TX 78218 Rosslyn, VA 22209
(210) 650-8110 (703) 588-7404 DSN 425; (703) 588-7560
jennifer.smith@brooks.af.mil timothy.steele@osd.mil
Roy Stripling, PhD Mrs. Jennifer C. Swoboda
Stategic Analysis, Inc. US Army Research Lab, HRED
One VA Square, 3601 Wilson Blvd. Suite 500 ATTN: AMSRL-HR-SE
Arlington, VA 22201 Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005
(703) 797-4515 FAX (703) 527-5445 (410) 278-5948 DSN 298; FAX (410) 278-5940
rstripling@sainc.com jcrouch@arl.mil
Dr. David Thorne Dr. Michael Tulloch
Walter Reed Army Institute of Research 3 Sigma Research Inc.
Div. Neuropsychiatry, 503 Grant Ave 13019 475th Ave.
Silver Spring, MD 20910-1500 Alcester, SD 57001
(301) 319-9975 FAX (301) 319-9979 (605) 253-2355
david.thorne@na.amedd.army.mil mtulloch@tulloch.org
Mr. Steven Vanderwalker Dr. Michael Vidulich
NAVAIR, Bldg 2187, Suite 2280 AFRL/HECP
48110 Shaw Road, Unit 5 2255 H St
Patuxent River, MD 20653 Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7022
(301) 342-3773 FAX (301) 342-9305 (937) 255-8734 DSN 785; FAX (937) 255-8752
vanderwalksj@navair.navy.mil michael.vidulich@he.wpafb.af.mil
Mr. Maris Vikmanis Dr. Norman W. Warner
AFRL/HEC, Bldg 248 Naval Air Warfare Center Aircraft Division
2255 H St Crew Systems (4.6.4), Bldg 2187, Suite 2259
Wright-Patterson AFB, OH 45433-7022 Patuxent River, MD 20670
(937) 255-7580 DSN 785; FAX (937) 255-8752 (301) 342-9288 FAX (301) 342-9305
maris.vikmanis@he.wpafb.af.mil warnernw@navair.navy.mil
Dan Wheeler Mihriban Whitmore
3800 Perrin Central 534 NASA/JSC
San Antonio, TX 78217 2101 NASA Road One
(210) 637-6539 DSN 240 Houston, TX 77058
daniel.wheeler@brooks.af.mil (281) 244-1004 FAX (281) 483-3789
 mwhitmor@ems.jsc.nasa.gov
Dr. Henry Williams Mr. John Winters
NAWC AD, Crew Systems Basic Commerce & Industries, 16347 Dahlgren Rd
48110 Shaw Road PO Box 1748
Patuxent River, MD 20670 Dahlgren, VA 22448
(301) 342-9275 FAX (301) 342-9305 (540) 663-3321x140 FAX (540) 663-3307
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Attachment (5) DoD HFE TAG Policies


1. Membership (General membership policies are outlined in the Operating Structure, under "Group Composition.")

1.1 Individuals who are not affiliated with Government agencies (but who are associated with technical societies or industrial associations with a stated interest in human factors engineering) wishing to affiliate with the TAG may contact the current Technical Society/Industry SubTAG Chair to ascertain eligibility under the TAG Operating Structure. Once eligibility has been ascertained, the individual should submit a letter on the organization's letterhead, confirming his/her status as the organization's representative, to the current Chair of the Technical Society/Industry SubTAG.

1.2 Emeritus Membership may be approved by the Executive Committee on a case-by-case basis for a former TAG member who is retired from government service or defense industry. Emeritus Membership is automatically deactivated during any period or re-employment with the government or defense industry.

2. Meeting Sites (Sites are recommended by the service caucus whose turn it is to host the TAG with a view toward a balance in geographic location and meeting facilities.)

2.1 TAG members are encouraged to recommend potential meeting sites.

2.2 Organizations who wish to host the TAG should contact their Service Representative or the current TAG Chair.

3. Agenda (The agenda is determined approximately three months before the scheduled meeting. The Chair Select selects the topics from those recommended by the Service Representatives, hosting agency and the TAG Coordinator.)

3.1 TAG members are encouraged to suggest potential agenda topics or topics suitable for tutorial sessions to their Service Representative, the current TAG Chair, or the TAG Coordinator.

4. Registration (Registration fees and the date of the close of registration are announced in an information letter sent approximately two months before the scheduled meeting.)

4.1 All attendees are expected to pre-register and prepay by the announced close of registration.

4.2 Only individuals receiving late travel approvals may pre-register on-site. Payments made at the meeting site must be in cash.

5. Minutes (The Minutes of each meeting serve as the principal mechanism for the reporting of TAG activities. The Minutes will be published as a draft document on the website.)

5.1 Individuals or agencies desiring to be included on the distribution list for a specific meeting should contact the TAG Coordinator.

6. SubTAGs and Committees (See the Operating Structure, section entitled "TAG SubTAGs," for specific information regarding the purposes and operating procedures of SubTAGs and committees.)

6.1 All SubTAGs and committees are encouraged to meet in conjunction with the TAG at least once each calendar year.

6.2 All SubTAGs and committees meeting in conjunction with the TAG are required to provide a chairperson for the specific meeting.

6.3 All SubTAG and committee chairpersons are to submit a brief report of each meeting to be included in the set of TAG Minutes covering the SubTAG/committee meeting time frame.

6.4 All SubTAGs and committees are required to provide the TAG Coordinator with an up-to-date list of their membership for use in the distribution of TAG announcements.

6.5 All SubTAGs are required to submit to the Executive Committee a Charter including, but not limited to, statements regarding:

/ objectives / membership policies / meeting schedule
/ scope / chair selection/tenure

6.6 Committees are required to submit to the Executive Committee a document including, but not limited to, brief statements regarding:

/ objectives
/ membership policies
/ chair selection/tenure

6.7 Rotation of the chair position is determined by SubTAG charter. If the position cannot be filled by the appropriate service at the election meeting, the SubTAG may progress to the next service willing to chair the SubTAG

7. SubTAG Establishment

7.1 Groups interested in addressing technical areas not covered by existing SubTAGs may request the TAG Chair to provide meeting time.

7.2 Formal SubTAGs and committees may be established by recommendation of the Executive Committee.

8. Chair/Representative Selection (General selection procedures are outlined in the Operating Structure under "Conduct of Business.")

    1. A Service caucus may be called by the TAG Chair or the current Service Representative.

    8.2 Methods of determining the Chair Select and Service Representatives are Service dependent.

    8.3 Unexpired terms of office will be filled by appointment by the Executive Committee, until a caucus of the Service can be called at the next regularly scheduled TAG meeting.

    9. Funding The funding required for the organization, conduct, franking, and documentation of all TAG meetings shall be done jointly by the three Services and other selected agencies. The specific mechanisms to obtain and allocate funding from the Services/agencies shall be arranged by the Current Chair, Chair Select, and Immediate Past Chair.

    1. Policy Changes

     10.1 Additions to or amendments of the above policies may be recommended by submitting the suggested change(s) in writing to the TAG Chair.

    10.2 Policies may be amended by a majority vote of those Operating Board members in attendance at the Operating Board meeting at which amendments have been proposed.

    Amended 14 November 1989 at TG-23, Killeen, Texas.

    Amended 3 May 1994 at TAG-32, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.

    Amended 8 May 1996 at TAG-36, Houston, Texas.

    Amended 7 November 2002 at TAG-48, Alexandria, Virginia.

    6/29/04