Model-based Organization Manning, Strategy, and Structure Design via Team Optimal Design (TOD) Methodology

摘要

This paper describes a quantitative Team Optimal Design (TOD) methodology and its application to the design of optimized manning for E-10 Multi-sensor Command and Control Aircraft. The E-10 (USAF, 2002) is intended to consolidate command and control (C2), battle management (BM), intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR), and selected information warfare (IW) functions and eventually replace elements of the current C2ISR force mix. Our TOD design approach allows specification of team configurations (number and roles of operators) for efficiently operating E-10 to execute mission scenarios of various contingencies. The objective is to maximize the speed of mission execution while balancing the workload among team members, provided the decision-making, expertise, workload threshold and organization cost constraints are satisfied. In order to analyze and simulate the operations of E- 10, we conducted mission decomposition to define functional responsibilities for the E-10 within the context of an operational mission. Working with subject matter experts, we developed functional process flows of E-10 by decomposing each stage into representative functions. Each of these functions is in turn decomposed into high level task responsibilities, defining a directed graph of tasks with precedence/information flow constraints.