Naval operations room director team structure for employing advanced threat evaluation and weapons assignment (TEWA) / Geoffrey Ho, DRDC - Toronto Research Centre ; Prepared for: D Nav P&T 5.: D68-2/050-2020E-PDF

"The advancement of automation to support threat evaluation and weapons assignment (TEWA) for anti-air and anti-surface warfare has raised the question whether the current structure for operations room directors can be optimized. Under the Impact of Automation Project (01AB), four two director teams, composed of one operations room officer (ORO) and one Sensor Weapons Controller (SWC), conducted simulated missions in Defence Research and Development Canada’s (DRDC’s) Combat Resource Allocation Support (CORALS) system. Two team structures were examined. In the Traditional structure, the team simulated today’s team structure, with the SWC primarily responsible for both threat evaluation and weapons and the ORO approves the SWC’s actions. In the Functional structure, the ORO acted as a threat evaluator and the SWC was responsible for weapons. The trial also manipulated the level of TEWA automation. In one condition, the automation only recommended actions while in the second condition, it could act upon its own decisions, unless the operators intervened. The results suggested no strong benefit for the Functional structure, but did suggest that allowing for higher levels of TEWA automation was beneficial. If the Royal Canadian Navy (RCN) employs more advanced TEWA though, it will have to address the issue of trust in the automation"--Abstract, page i.

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