Thoughts regarding evaluation of the human perspectives in the "demonstrators" work in the Armed Forces Transformation Program and Command and Control Development

This report discusses how the evaluation of the human perspectives within the Swedish Armed Forces Transformation Program and Command and Control Development shall be designed in order to balance the technical- and human -centric approaches. One of the difficulties when making measurements at the systems-of-systems level is a common theoretical basis for the evaluation of technical system-of-systems and the evaluation of the human perspectives. In the present report, results and conclusions from a study of documents from the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters, from the "demonstrators" work in the Armed Forces Transformation Program and Command and Control Development, and from the human -factors audit are discussed. The conclusions are: (a)The human-centric approach is absent in documents from the Swedish Armed Forces Headquarters. (b) The human-centric approach includes humans and/or groups and organisations. (c) There is an NCW- hypothesis for command and control (d) There are requirements on effects and abilities that are to be achieved. (e) A synthesis of the human-centric and technical approaches is missing. Using a system approach gives us a theoretical basis for a multidiciplinary approach to bridge the gap between the scientific approaches used in technical disciplines and the approaches used in human factors, cognitive, neural, and social sciences. If we are to succeed in achieving an evaluation method of systems -of systems we will certainly have to combine these two approaches.