Lewis Schneider

Initial skills training is designed to teach warfighters the technical knowledge and skills needed to perform an occupational specialty. However, a focus on training technical skills alone may miss opportunities to develop valuable nontechnical skills that are important to prepare for current and future missions. This report offers a roadmap for systematically integrating nontechnical attribute development into early and initial skills training.

In this report, the authors outline approaches to developing an artificial intelligence (AI)-focused research hub in Jackson, Mississippi. The analysis draws on a scoping literature review and interviews with key stakeholders. By combining information about existing needs in the AI research space with existing research and technology capabilities in Mississippi, the authors derive a suite of options for a research hub in the state.

The U. S. Department of the Air Force (DAF) must develop and sustain mission-critical knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) among airmen, guardians, and civilians. Yet training and education is costly. This report describes how computational cognitive models can deliver personalized and adaptive training that enhanced learning gains and reduced training time for mission-critical KSAs, with emphasis on second-language learning, for the DAF.