US Army Natick Soldier Center

The U.S. Army wants to ensure that the Future Force Warrior (FFW) will see first, understand first, act first and finish decisively as the means to tactical success. The Army of the future conceives of small combat units with netted communications enhanced with information from distributed and fused sensors, tactical intelligent assets enabling increased situation assessment, and on-the-move planning (FFW, 2004). The increase in information flow won’t come without a cost, however. Information management will be a key aspect of this distributed system. The availability of such technologies as Augmented Cognition (AugCog), will allow the system to be tailored to the situational and cognitive needs of the warfighter. This paper describes an example of AugCog technology applied to a Communications System