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“Since the mid 80’s Monterey Technologies, Inc. has been supporting simulation-based research on Army helicopter crew station design issues for AMRDEC’s Aeroflightdynamics directorate at NASA Ames Research Center. Their work has been uniformly excellent. Two of their personnel received commendation awards for their outstanding work for us. Without question, MTI is a company we look to when facing technical barriers in human factors, and crew station design.”
“Monterey Technologies, Inc. is one of the most competent and professional companies I have had the pleasure to work with over my 37 year career. Their knowledge of human behavior in complex military systems is complementary to our simulation and modeling efforts. Dr. Hennessy’s technical reputation is nationally recognized and this knowledge directly reflects upon the outstanding technical staff he has developed. His Management Controls are superb. I look forward to working with them on the many forthcoming opportunities to provide support for our national defense and homeland security needs.”
“I have known Bob Hennessy for over twenty years. Monterey Technologies, Inc. is one of the best human factors companies around. They are currently helping us develop new approaches to aerial gunnery training and I am more than pleased with their work.”
“MTI has a sterling reputation in the human factors community for careful, high quality analyses and good value for cost. I have personally known MTI staff and about their human factors work for more than fifteen years. They always deliver a high quality product. They helped the Air Force establish the Crew System Ergonomics Information Analysis Center (CSERIAC) and recently delivered a human factors test bed for a satellite controller's workstation.”
"Monterey Technologies, Inc. has been one of my most valuable contractors for over ten years. Their work in support of the Army's Rotorcraft Pilot's Associate (RPA) simulation testing was particularly important. Their crew station design and evaluation work is first-rate. I have no problem recommending MTI to anyone who needs human factors and simulation expertise."
“The work that Monterey Technologies, Inc. team is doing for the Commonwealth of Australia developing complex mission scenarios for training our Wedgetail Airborne Early Warning and Control mission crews is outstanding. You are our only contractor on the project who delivers more than we expect, - ahead of schedule!”
“the quality of work MTI provides to the RPT is consistently outstanding. The company obviously hand-picks it’s employees. I have never seen such a consistently excellent performance from contractors or Government organizations. We couldn’t get this job done without the support from MTI”
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Mission Analysis
Lack of Mission Analysis can lead to waste
Organizations, whether government, military, or commercial based, are under constant pressure to get their products out to their users or market as quickly as possible. This can lead to organizations cutting short or completely skipping planning and analysis, in favor of immediately jumping into the execution phase. This is because planning and analyzing designs for hardware, software, and business processes costs time and money and isn’t particularly exciting. Sometimes it may be difficult to see the future savings or advantages of up front and thorough planning and analysis.
Shortchanging the planning and analysis effort almost always results in failure or gross inefficiency. Systems end up being too hard to use or unable to do what all of the users need, or the business process doesn’t accomplish its intent for all of the users in your workforce. Does this sound familiar?
Any development project must first set the conditions for success, and that begins with a planning and analysis effort. This effort must begin with mission analysis.
Although military / government centric, the following can be adapted to commercial applications. If you do this successfully, at the end state of mission analysis you should have accomplished three key things.
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First, you understand your mission and your contribution to the overall fight. Remember, no matter what level of the fight, your actions should assist others in accomplishing their mission.
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Second, you have a good situational understanding of the variables currently existing on the battlefield.
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Finally, you possess the necessary insight and understanding to begin to craft a course of action that provides you the opportunity to succeed (you still have to execute).
Our human factors experts are experienced in conducting mission analyses as the first critical step in any system or business process design effort. Our mission analyses focuses on the following steps:
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What are your goals and objectives?
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What are you trying to accomplish with the system or process?
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What are the constraints?
Who are the users? How many different types are there?
- What are they like?
What are the users’ limitations? (education, technology, background, experience)
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What are the requirements? (both technical and user requirements)
Without the mission analysis, your new system or process may very likely fail, resulting in an extended schedule, and additional cost to “fix” it in version 2.0. Let MTI help you succeed by starting the project with a detailed mission analysis.
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