Army HSI Newsletter Human Systems Integration INSIDE THIS ISSUE: Summer/Fall 2016 Edition 1 Director s Corner 2 Contact Information Development of an HSI 3 Standard Practice and Military Handbook Data Item Description Development for the 4 Human Viewpoint Architecture Description OUR MISSION: The mission of Army Human Systems Integration (Army HSI), formerly known as Manpower and Personnel Integration (MANPRINT), is to optimize total system performance, reduce life cycle costs, and minimize risk of Soldier loss or injury by ensuring a systematic consideration of the impact of materiel design on Soldiers throughout the system development process. 6 JHSI Pentagon Display 8 What s Old is New 9 Education and Events
WELCOME The Director s Corner Dr. Beverly Knapp Acting Director Army HSI Welcome to the Army HSI Summer Edition 2016. Summer s about over, but we are coming to you at the tail end with a few hot topics. Since February, I have been very proud to serve as the Director (Acting) of the Army HSI Office. This year s spring and summer have been very busy for us. One of the most significant areas of endeavor is Joint Service HSI. Joint HSI activity has come to the forefront in a number of ways. As you will see in this edition of our newsletter, the Joint HSI Working Group (JHSIWG, an O-6 level forum with all service representation) launched the initiative to develop an HSI Standard. Mr. Owen Seely from USMC HSI has written an informative piece on the status and exciting way ahead for this effort. It s a great step forward for HSI since it will allow specification of HSI work in systems and contract packages. In conjunction with the HSI standard is a write-up on an HSI DID (Data Item Description) effort, the Army s instantiation of the Human View (HV) Architecture process. Dr. Holly Handley from Old Dominion University has been leading this work in support of Army HSI. Also, the DoDI (Department of Defense Instruction) 5000.02, Operation of the Defense Acquisition System, dated January 07, 2015, is relatively new, and some changes are being made to update it this year. The Joint HSI community is taking this opportunity to submit changes to the current HSI enclosure (p. 118) of the DoDI 5000.02 to strengthen the requirement for HSI in systems it currently states The Program Manager will ensure that HSI is considered at each program milestone during the program life cycle and most folks agree that this can be improved. There s a lot of great Army HSI work now occurring. In future HSI Newsletters, I will solicit short articles to highlight this work and the professionals who are conducting it. In the meantime, I will mention exciting support to the DCGS (Distributed Common Ground System) by both the Army and Navy HSI teams, and a spirited effort to get the DCGS-Air Force folks on board. This is a great success story that shows how HSI can be applied to ensure the design of a common user interface experience that crosses service boundaries and shows some of HSI best practices at work. A tip of the HSI hat to Diane Quarles (ARL-HRED), Matt Risser (contract support to SPAWAR HSI), and lots of others on this. More to follow. Finally, our Newsletter has a short pictorial synopsis of our recent HSI Display Days here in the Pentagon. This was an overwhelming success and the first time that the US Coast Guard was able to exhibit HSI excellence with us. We project that our Winter HSI Newsletter will be at your electronic doorstep before next Spring. Until then, HSI Forward! Bev Knapp 2 1
CONTACT INFORMATION ARMY HSI DOMAIN CONTACTS HEALTH HAZARDS Dr. Timothy Kluchinsky Manager, Health Hazard Assessment Program U.S. Army Public Health Center (APHC), Occupational Health Science Directorate ATTN: MCHP-PH-HHA/ Dr. Timothy A. Kluchinsky, Jr. 5158 Blackhawk Road, Bldg. E1570, Rm OE-201 Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21010 DSN 584.1061, COM 410.436.1061 FAX 410.436.1016 Email: timothy.kluchinsky.civ@mail.mil MANPOWER, PERSONNEL, TRAINING HUMAN FACTORS ENGINEERING Dr. Don Headley, Army Research Laboratory (ARL), Human Research & Engineering Directorate (HRED) Bldg. 459, Room 210 459 Mulberry Point Rd Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-5425 COM: 410.278.5919, DSN: 298.5919 Email: Donald.b.headley.civ@mail.mil SOLDIER SURVIVABILITY Mr. Richard Zigler, U.S. Army Research Laboratory Survivability/Lethality Analysis Directorate ATTN: RDRL-SLB-E, Bldg. 328, Room 112A Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD 21005-5068 SYSTEM SAFETY DAC Graham Walker, Office of the Chief of Staff, Army Safety Office; ATTN: DACS-SF, Bldg. 1456, Ft. Belvoir, VA 22060-544, COM 703.697.1322, FAX 703.601.2417, Email: graham.k.walker.civ@mail.mil Dr. Mike Cupples, U.S. Army System Safety and Readiness Center; Bldg. 4093, Ft. Rucker, AL 36362 COM 334.255.3261, FAX 334.255.9478 Email: michael.w.cupples.civ@mail.mil ARMY HSI NEWSLETTER CONTRACTING RESOURCES GROUP, INC. ATTN: Army HSI PROGRAM 1133 Light Street Federal Hill, MD 21230 emilie.c.menefee.ctr@mail.mil ARMY HSI OFFICE CONTACTS HQDA (DAPE-HSI) 300 Army Pentagon, Washington, DC 20301-0300 COM: 703.695.5848 FAX: 703.695.6997 Dr. Beverly G. Knapp DSN 225.6817 COM 703.695.6817 Army HSI Director (Acting) C4ISR & Soldier Systems Beverly.g.knapp.civ@mail.mil Mr. L. Taylor Jones III COM 256.382.4700 ext. 103 Senior Army HSI Analyst Aviation, Missile, & Space Systems; Fires & Ammo Systems Lauris.t.jones2.civ@mail.mil Dr. John D. Warner DSN 225.5820 COM 703.695.5820 Senior Army HSI Analyst Protection, Sustainment & EIS Systems John.d.warner38.civ@mail.mil Mrs. Lisa F. Peters DSN 225.5848 COM 703.695.5848 (Pentagon) FAX 703. 695.6997 (Pentagon) Executive Assistant HSI & Business Transformation Division (BTD) BTD COM 703.545.3616 (Crystal City) Lisa.f.peters.civ@mail.mil DIRECTORY OF DESIGN SUPPORT METHODS Defense Technical Information Center MATRIS DTIC-AM San Diego, NAS North Island, Bldg. 1482, Box 357011 San Diego, CA 92135-7011 COM 619.545.7384; DSN 735.7384 Website: http://www.dtic.mil/matris/ POLICY Department of the Army, G-1, ATTN: DAPE-HSI 300 Army Pentagon Washington, DC 20310-0300 DSN: 225.5853 3 2
DEVELOPMENT Mr. Owen Seely Chair of DOD HSI Standards WG NSWC Dahlgren Currently there are various resources available to Program Managers that provide guidance for how to implement Human Systems Integration (HSI) in their programs. However, the Department of Defense (DoD) does not have an HSI entry amongst the catalog of DoD standards and handbooks. The significant ramifications of this omission are that acquisition programs lack a standard practice to ensure HSI activities are appropriately and consistently implemented across DoD. Furthermore, the current set of HSI Data Item Descriptions (DIDs) is not sufficient for a contractor to perform the full breadth of HSI analyses and activities. In 2014, the DoD HSI Standards Working Group was chartered to, 1) review and assess the catalogue of existing standards, 2) revise and or development an HSI Standard Practice and associated HSI Handbook, and 3) revise and develop HSI-related DIDs. The Working Group completed a gap analysis in 2015 that served as the basis for documenting the gap in HSI standards. Following a series of technical decision meetings with the Defense Standards Program Office (DSPO) and Defense Standardization Council (DSC), the Working Group is pursuing the development of a non-government standard (NGS) that will be adopted by the DoD for use on contracts as a process standard for executing HSI efforts. Development of an HSI Standard Practice and Military Handbook After two years of preparations and analysis, the Working Group selected SAE International (G45 HSI Committee) the Working Group selected SAE International (G45 HSI Committee) to develop the DoD HSI Standard Practice with government participation from all the services. Over the next two years as the HSI Standard Practice is being developed, the DoD HSI Standards WG will also be developing an accompanying HSI Military Handbook (MIL-HDBK) and new HSI DIDs to map to the HSI Standard Practice. While the HIS Standard Practice will discuss the HSI programmatic requirements and process for contractors, the MIL-HDBK will provide guidance to Program Managers on how to use/tailor the HSI Standard and cover unique government HSI tasks. The resulting set of documentation (standard, handbook, and DIDs) will provide the government and contractor HSI community with a complimentary tool set to implement and execute the best practices for HSI. For more information or interest in participating, please contact Owen Seely at owen.seely@navy.mil. 4 3
DEVELOPMENT Dr. Holly Handley Professor Old Dominion University A current effort supporting both Army and Navy Humans System Integration (HSI) is focusing on developing a Data Item Description (DID) for the Human Viewpoint Architecture Description (HVAD). The Human View provides an integrated set of models, similar to existing architecture viewpoints, that include human data as part of the system architecture description (NATO, 2010). A completed HVAD provides a way to include early HSI considerations into the mainstream acquisition and system engineering process by identifying human roles, tasks, constraints, metrics, etc. for use in analysis efforts by both system engineering and human system integration teams. A DID supports this analysis by standardizing the collection and representation of the data. The content and format requirements for a DID is defined within MIL-STD-963C (DoD, 2014). A DID for the Human View will help to formalize the practice of completing the HVAD as part of the architecting and engineering processes, and can be used to insure compliance on the delivery, format and content of the data. The DID follows a standard format. The first paragraph of the DID indicates the use of the data: Data Item Description Development for the Human Viewpoint Architecture Description The Human Viewpoint Architecture Description (HVAD) data item description (DID) provides the data and relationships necessary to augment the System Architecture Description with information on the human component. The HVAD DID contains the set of views completed during the early acquisition system architecting process to capture the Human System; as used in this DID the Human System refers to the set of people who interact with or complete functions as part of the system. It documents the human focused data required to address human-system integration (HSI) concerns that are lacking in other architecture frameworks. The second section of the DID indicates the data s format. Note that this section includes a reference to DoDAF (2010), as the purpose of the Human View is to augment traditional system architecting efforts: The HVAD DID format shall be consistent with the Department of Defense Architecture Framework (DODAF). Unless effective presentation would be degraded, the initial format shall be used for all subsequent submissions. Revisions shall be indicated in a manner consistent with standard editorial practices. The last section of the DID describes the content specifications of the complete HVAD. Note that if any of the sections below is substantially covered in another document, a summary of the content and reference or link to the document is sufficient: a. Concept. The contractor shall provide a description of the context of the Human System in relation to the environment, operational demands, and technical components. The description shall include a textual or pictorial representation of the humans interacting with the system, specific influences on the human from the surroundings, events that trigger specific human activities, and technical alternatives to be evaluated. b. Constraints. The contractor shall provide a description of any constraints which may alter the human performance of certain roles or tasks. The description shall identify the constraint, the specific role(s) or task(s) affected, the HSI domain(s) affected, the limitation imposed by the constraint, and the impact on human performance. If possible, the source or reference for the constraint shall be provided. Continued on next page... 5 4
DEVELOPMENT...Continued from previous page Data Item Description Development for the Human Viewpoint Architecture Description c. Tasks. The contractor shall provide a description of the human-specific tasks to support the overall operational and system activities. This description shall include a task name; a description of the task; the relationship of the task with other tasks (either through a decomposition relationship or a precedence relationship); specific knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) required by the task; and assignment of the task to specific roles; and equipment or software used to perform the task. Exchanged at the nodes; and the system technology used to exchange the information or data. f. Training. The contractor shall provide a description of any training that is required to operate, maintain, and support the system. The description shall contain a description of the task or equipment to be trained, the method of the training (e.g., classroom, on-the-job, embedded), and the training resources required. overall systems performance by ensuring efficient and effective use of human resources within the system, ultimately reducing overall system costs. d. Roles. The contractor shall provide a description of the personnel job functions or task responsibility areas. This description shall include a role name; an aggregation of allocated tasks; a job series designator (e.g., rank, rate, military occupational specialty); competency or specific knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSA) required; and any specific crew assignment or location requirements. e. Human network. The contractor shall provide a description of the relationship between roles and tasks based on communication patterns, information flows, or other types of data exchanges. The description shall include the name of the workflow, process, or team; the role(s) or task(s) depicted at the nodes; the type of interactions between the nodes; the information or data g. Metrics. The contractor shall provide a description of the measures of performance that will be used to evaluate human performance, the attribute (i.e., timeliness) to be evaluated, the measurement that will be used to evaluate the attribute (i.e., seconds), and the range of acceptable values or limits (i.e., not greater than 10 seconds). The HVAD provides a fully integrated set of products that can be used to communicate the importance of the human aspect of the architecture and the need for its use in trade studies and decision making support. A DID will ensure that the complete suite of data is captured to support human focused analyses at the early stages of system design. The consideration of human issues early in the acquisition phase can enhance 6 5
JHSI EVENT 2016 JHSI Pentagon Display The Army HSI Office displayed its capabilities at the annual Joint Service HSI event held over two days at the Pentagon on 3-4 May. The theme of the event was Human-Machine Teaming. The Army was joined by the Marines, Air Force, Navy, and Coast Guard. Each service presented interactive displays demonstrating the latest technology focusing on the integration of the Human Element in system acquisition resulting in enhanced operational performance, reduced total sustained costs, and increased warfighter survivability. Pictured above from left to right: Lt Sean Sherman, Mr. Allen Rowe, 1st Lt Daniel Neal Pictured above: This display is an annual event and each year the services focus on a different theme. The theme for 2016 was Human Machine Teaming. Pictured above from left to right: Dr. Jock Grynovicki, Mr. Richard Kozycki, Dr. Jeffrey Hansberger, Dr. Laurel Allender, Dr. Christopher Best, Dr. Christopher Garneau, Dr. Beverly Knapp, Ms. Cheryl Burns 7 6
JHSI EVENT 2016 JHSI Pentagon Display Among the many visitors to attend the display were several VIPs from the different services including: LTG James McConville Deputy Chief of Staff, Army G-1 Dr. Bob Steinrauf, SES Director of Plans and Resources, Army G-1 Ms. Dolores Johnson-Davis, SES ASA M&RA, Representative Ms. Kathleen Miller, SES Assistant Deputy, Army G-3/5/7 Mr. Jack Daniels, SES Director of Finance, Army G-8 Mr. Mark Lewis, SES Chief Management Officer, Secretary of the Army Dr. Patrick Mason, SES Director, Human Performance, Training & Biotech, DASD Research Ms. Kristen Baldwin, SES Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Systems Engineering, DASD-SE Mr. Robert Gold, SES Director, Engineering Enterprise, DASD-SE Mr. William S. Williford III, Director, Integrated Warfare Systems Engineering SEA 05H, NAVSEA Pictured above from left to right: LTG McConville, Army G-1 with Dr. Knapp, Army G-1, HSI RDML Nancy A. Norton Director of Warfare Integration for Information Warfare, Deputy Director, Navy, Cybersecurity, OPNAV N2N6F Pictured above from left to right: Ms. Dolores Johnson -Davis, ASA-M&RA with Dr. William Evans, ARL-HRED Pictured above from left to right: Dr. Knapp with Ms. Kristen Baldwin Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for System Engineering, with Mr. Rob Gold of DASD-SE standing by 8 7
WHAT S OLD IS NEW An Occasional Feature: What s Old is New An Excerpt from the HSI Past (MANPRINT) 9 8
EDUCATION & EVENTS Army HSI Practitioner s Course Time Location Point of Contact 9:30-12:00 Huntsville, AL Ms. Kelly Hopkins, Army HSI Education Administrator khopkins@alionscience.com *Classes will be held on select Tuesdays throughout each month in 2016. DAU Course CLE 062, Human Systems Integration Now listed as a Core Plus certification course for: SPRDE-SE level II: https://dap.dau.mil/career/sys/pages/certification2.aspx SPRDE-PSE level I: https://dap.dau.mil/career/pgm/pages/certification.aspx Over 500 military, government, and industry professionals have completed the course in less than one year. Enroll now at: http://www.dau.mil/default.aspx The Army HSI Newsletter is an official bulletin of the Deputy Chief of Staff, G-1, Department of the Army. The Army Human Systems Integration (HSI) Program (AR 602-2) is a comprehensive management and technical initiative to enhance human performance and reliability during weapons system and equipment design, development, and production. Army HSI encompasses seven key domains: manpower, personnel, training, human factors engineering, system safety, health hazards, and soldier survivability. The focus of Army HSI is to integrate technology, people, and force structure to meet mission objectives under all environmental conditions at the lowest possible life-cycle cost. Information contained in this bulletin covers policies, procedures, and other items of interest concerning the HSI Program. Statements and opinions expressed are not necessarily those of the Department of the Army. This bulletin is prepared twice yearly under contract for the HSI Directorate, G-1, under the provisions of AR 25-30 as a functional bulletin. 10 9