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Integrated Aiding and Training

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Air Force
Contract: FA8650-07-M-6789
Agency Tracking Number: F071-026-2006
Amount: $100,000.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: AF071-026
Solicitation Number: 2007.1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2007
Award Year: 2007
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2007-04-06
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2008-02-06
Small Business Information
15400 Calhoun Drive, Suite 400
Rockville, MD 20855
United States
DUNS: 161911532
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: Yes
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Jacqueline Haynes
 Executive Vice President
 (301) 294-5260
 jhaynes@i-a-i.com
Business Contact
 Mark James
Title: Director of Contracts and Proposals
Phone: (301) 294-5221
Email: mjames@i-a-i.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

Organizations that use a common knowledge base for aiding and training benefit in that (a) one knowledge base is easier to develop (b) updates are more timely, as both training and aiding require only one update, and (c) how aiding and training support complex performance can be clearly specified by the transformations used for aiding and training. Further benefits accrue when experts directly express their knowledge into the common knowledge base: the knowledge is current, and incorporates current job-relevant factors, such as available job aids and training. The primary difficulty in creating a system in which experts enter knowledge directly into a knowledge base used to present aiding and training is that the grain size of units created by experts and later required by automatic transforms differ: experts will naturally express their knowledge in relatively large grain sizes, and automatic transforms require small grain sizes. We will conduct research to try to find a middle grain size with which experts can express their knowledge and automatic transforms can use to create aiding and training. Once studies determine the best grain size, software that supports expert input and required transforms will be designed and developed.

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