Team Coordination and Shared Situation Awareness in Combat Identification

This chapter begins with a brief overview of the situation awareness (SA) construct, including defining three levels of SA as well as distinguishing between team and shared SA. It demonstrates, with examples from relevant research, how consideration of the factors can enhance the design of technologies to effectively promote team coordination and shared SA during combat identification. The chapter describes the research that highlights the value of training programs aimed at developing the skills that support SA processes in combat identification. It also describes how a model of team SA can be applied to meet the team coordination and shared SA challenges associated with successful combat identification in today\u27s complex military battlefield. The chapter offers a promising theoretically-based, empirically-validated approach for addressing the critical requirement. SA Requirements are utilized by team members to identify which information needs to be shared, including their higher level assessments and projections and information on team members\u27 task status and current capabilities