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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2012. Improving the Decision Making Abilities of Small Unit Leaders. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13188.
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Acronyms and Abbreviations

AOR area of responsibility
     
C4ISR command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance
CAOCL Center for Advanced Operational Culture and Learning
CG commanding general
CLIC company-level intelligence cell
CLOC company-level operations cell
CM collection management
COA course of action
COIN counterinsurgency
CSE cognitive systems engineering
CTA cognitive task analysis
     
DARPA Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency
DDR&E Director of Defense Research and Engineering
DFT data-frame theory
DOD Department of Defense
DTCS Distributed Tactical Communications System
     
ECO enhanced company operations
EEG electroencephalography
EMO enhanced Marine Air-Ground Task Force operations
Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2012. Improving the Decision Making Abilities of Small Unit Leaders. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13188.
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FITE Future Immersive Training Environment
fMRI functional magnetic resonance imaging
FMV full-motion video
     
GAO Government Accountability Office
     
HB heuristics and biases
HCI human-computer interface
HSCB human socio-cultural behavior
     
IED improvised explosive device
IIT Infantry Immersion Trainer
IMEF I Marine Expeditionary Force
ISAF International Security Assistance Force
ISR intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance
     
JCTD Joint Capability Technology Demonstration
     
LOE Limited Objective Experiment
     
MAGTF Marine Air-Ground Task Force
MCCDC Marine Corps Combat Development Command
MCDP Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication
MCWL Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory
MTT Mobile Training Team
     
NATO North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NCO noncommissioned officer
NDM naturalistic decision making
NIPRnet Non-classified Internet Protocol Router Network
NRC National Research Council
NSB Naval Studies Board
     
ONR Office of Naval Research
OR operations research
OSD Office of the Secretary of Defense
     
PDA personal digital assistant
     
R&D research and development
RE resilience engineering
ROE rules of engagement
RPD recognition-primed decision making
Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2012. Improving the Decision Making Abilities of Small Unit Leaders. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13188.
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SA situational awareness
SAT Systems Approach to Training
SC MAGTF Security Cooperation Marine Air-Ground Task Force
SEU subjective expected utility
SIPRnet Secret Internet Protocol Router Network
     
TDA tactical decision aid
TECOM Training and Education Command
TIGR Tactical Ground Reporting
TTPs tactics, techniques, and procedures
     
UAV unmanned aerial vehicle
USMC U.S. Marine Corps
Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2012. Improving the Decision Making Abilities of Small Unit Leaders. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13188.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2012. Improving the Decision Making Abilities of Small Unit Leaders. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13188.
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Suggested Citation:"Appendix C: Acronyms and Abbreviations." National Research Council. 2012. Improving the Decision Making Abilities of Small Unit Leaders. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi: 10.17226/13188.
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For the past decade, the U.S. Marine Corps and its sister services have been engaged in what has been termed "hybrid warfare," which ranges from active combat to civilian support. Hybrid warfare typically occurs in environments where all modes of war are employed, such as conventional weapons, irregular tactics, terrorism, disruptive technologies, and criminality to destabilize an existing order.

In August 2010, the National Research Council established the Committee on Improving the Decision Making Abilities of Small Unit Leaders to produce Improving the Decision Making Abilities of Small Unit Leaders. This report examines the operational environment, existing abilities, and gap to include data, technology, skill sets, training, and measures of effectiveness for small unit leaders in conducting enhanced company operations (ECOs) in hybrid engagement, complex environments. Improving the Decision Making Abilities of Small Unit Leaders also determines how to understand the decision making calculus and indicators of adversaries.

Improving the Decision Making Abilities of Small Unit Leaders recommends operational and technical approaches for improving the decision making abilities of small unit leaders, including any acquisition and experimentation efforts that can be undertaken by the Marine Corps and/or by other stakeholders aimed specifically at improving the decision making of small unit leaders. This report recommends ways to ease the burden on small unit leaders and to better prepare the small unit leader for success. Improving the Decision Making Abilities of Small Unit Leaders also indentifies a responsible organization to ensure that training and education programs are properly developed, staffed, operated, evaluated, and expanded.

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