Bridging Cultures to Improve Health, Wellness, and Performance: The Air Force Security Forces "Cop and Doc Model"

ABSTRACT The Tri-Service Microbiome Consortium (TSMC) was recently established to enhance collaboration, coordination, and communication of microbiome research among Department of Defense (DoD) organizations. The TSMC aims to serve as a forum for sharing information related to DoD microbiome research, policy, and applications, to monitor global advances relevant to human health and performance, to identify priority objectives, and to facilitate Tri-Service (Army, Navy, and Air Force) collaborative research. The inaugural TSMC workshop held on 10 to 11 May 2017 brought together almost 100 attendees from across the DoD and several key DoD partners. The meeting outcomes informed attendees of the scope of current DoD microbiome research efforts and identified knowledge gaps, collaborative/leveraging opportunities, research barriers/challenges, and future directions. This report details meeting presentations and discussions with special emphasis on Tri-Service labs’ current research activities.

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Mpt in the Air Force

Proceedings of the Human Factors Society Annual Meeting ◽

10.1177/154193128603001313 ◽

1986 ◽

Vol 30 (13) ◽

pp. 1294-1295

Author(s):

John Speigel ◽

Mike Skinner

Keyword(s):

Air Force ◽

Weapon System ◽

Integration System ◽

Weapon Systems ◽

System Acquisition ◽

And Performance ◽

And Training ◽

Equal Consideration

The Air Force recognizes the importance of Manpower, Personnel, and Training (MPT) issues in weapon system acquisition. To give supportability of future weapon systems equal consideration to cost, schedule, and performance of the system, the Air Force has set out to build an integration system to monitor MPT issues.

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Adaptive mental mode and performance in non-controlled situations: A study with student-pilots of the French Air Force

Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience ◽

10.3389/conf.neuro.08.2009.09.216 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 3 ◽

Author(s):

El Massioui Farid

Keyword(s):

Air Force ◽

Student Pilots ◽

And Performance

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Do Capstone Students Really Understand the Needs of the Customer?: Observations on Students’ Blind Spots Left by Early Program Curriculum

Volume 3: 21st International Conference on Advanced Vehicle Technologies; 16th International Conference on Design Education ◽

10.1115/detc2019-98431 ◽

2019 ◽

Author(s):

Matthew Goodson ◽

Carl Sorensen ◽

Michael Anderson ◽

Christopher Mattson

Keyword(s):

Air Force ◽

Air Force Academy ◽

Structured Interviews ◽

Apparent Lack ◽

Brigham Young University ◽

Project Outcomes ◽

Us Air Force ◽

The Us ◽

And Performance ◽

Blind Spots

Abstract Student capstone teams have varying degrees of success in meeting the expectations of their project sponsors. Keeping sponsors happy is important to these programs in order to ensure continued support from these industry representatives, so finding ways to improve project outcomes is critical. In order to find blind spots that students may have been left with after their first 6–7 weeks of instruction, we conducted structured interviews with students in capstone programs at Brigham Young University and the US Air Force Academy. These interviews were then transcribed, coded, and analyzed for themes that may have been well understood or misunderstood by students. We found that a significant number of students had not understood concepts such as a design being more than a prototype, that sponsors have expectations for the tradeoffs between product cost and performance, or that they need to be thinking about how their designs might be deployed. It was also interesting to note that most students also reported feeling confident in their understanding despite their apparent lack thereof, indicating that these could represent major blind spots for students. We propose that developing methods for teaching these principles early on will help students see more clearly what their end goals need to be, and thus help them be more successful in delivering desirable designs.

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