MOVING THE CORPS INTO THE INFORMATION AGE: DATA-DRIVEN TRAINING STANDARDS AND ANALYTICS TO SUPPORT EVALUATION

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dc.contributor.advisorLucas, Thomas W.
dc.contributor.authorMeehan, Martin J.
dc.contributor.departmentOperations Research (OR)
dc.contributor.secondreaderRaffetto, Mark A.
dc.date.accessioned2020-08-21T00:24:41Z
dc.date.available2020-08-21T00:24:41Z
dc.date.issued2020-06
dc.description.abstractIn 2014 the Marine Corps authorized the Ground Combat Element Integrated Task Force experiment. This resulted in the activation of a battalion consisting of eight combat arms Military Occupational Specialties, combat engineers, and provisional infantry Marines, their equipment, and necessary support personnel. This experiment, costing $36 million and using nearly a century of man hours, produced what is possibly the most robust and diverse dataset involving Marine Corps training metrics ever collected at one time. Since the completion of the 1,000-page experimental assessment report in 2015, the data has garnered limited acknowledgment and application beyond the study’s original aims. The data generated from this experiment contains individual and small unit performance metrics and measurements, including, but not limited to: rate of movement with various combat loads, live-fire accuracy statistics (from tanks, mortars, artillery, crew served, and individual weapons systems), physiological measurements, and combat task evaluations recorded over a three-month simulated deployment. This data has the potential to provide a basis for truly quantitative training standards by marrying data-driven metrics with time-tested doctrine and to improve the accuracy of combat models. This thesis transforms the data into an environment amenable to analysis by future researchers and provides a roadmap for the development of quantitative measures of training performance and other applications.en_US
dc.description.distributionstatementApproved for public release. distribution is unlimiteden_US
dc.description.serviceCaptain, United States Marine Corpsen_US
dc.identifier.thesisid32278
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10945/65406
dc.publisherMonterey, CA; Naval Postgraduate Schoolen_US
dc.rightsThis publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.en_US
dc.subject.authorGround Combat Element Integrated Task Forceen_US
dc.subject.authorGCEITFen_US
dc.subject.authordata-driven training standardsen_US
dc.subject.authorUnited States Marine Corps performance metricsen_US
dc.titleMOVING THE CORPS INTO THE INFORMATION AGE: DATA-DRIVEN TRAINING STANDARDS AND ANALYTICS TO SUPPORT EVALUATIONen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dspace.entity.typePublication
etd.thesisdegree.disciplineOperations Researchen_US
etd.thesisdegree.grantorNaval Postgraduate Schoolen_US
etd.thesisdegree.levelMastersen_US
etd.thesisdegree.nameMaster of Science in Operations Researchen_US
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