Problem/Deficiency Being Addressed
The Navy continues to move into an era of distributed, computer-mediated planning, problem solving, and joint activity. The joint activity among ship, air, submarine, and shore personnel is largely mediated by computer.
A significant task is to develop tools and interface technology that structures the activities of distributed planners and actors in a way that simplifies ongoing coordination and reduces the work involved in sharing meanings, understandings, and assessments, given the press of time in an ongoing crisis situation.