Human Performance Measurement: Cultural Changes

There has been a high degree of cooperation and collaboration among the Navy system commands with respect to human performance under the Human Systems Performance Assessment Capability initiative. Additionally, the various warfare centers for Naval Sea Systems Command have shown the ability to team across the wide Navy organization. The steering group has shown the practitioners how to team and work together to accomplish similar objectives across different systems. Opportunities to collaborate have been identified and executed with minimal supervision and measurable contributions have been collected. One of the valuable benefits that has been gained through this effort is the ability for practitioners to share knowledge, methods, and tools with their counterparts across the Navy infrastructure. A shared common approach to addressing human performance data collection is emerging as a result. One of the real advantages of the project is a shared vision on the importance of human performance as part of the system engineering process of defining requirements through the eventual test and evaluation phases of a program.