Defense – Real war games

Dan Tufano spends a lot of time in his Ballistic Missile Defense System mode, thinking about human behavior, decision-making and how people interact with screens and machines. If the United States ever comes under attack, his work with the Missile Defense Agency and Joint Air and Missile Defense organization could play a role in determining the outcome. “As the Ballistic Missile Defense System continues to grow, it will become increasingly complex and include multiple types of weapons and sensors distributed across the globe,” said Tufano, an experimental psychologist at Oak Ridge National Laboratory. To ensure that the U.S. is prepared, each year he participates in a number of war games designed to help participants work collaboratively and with a multitude of automated systems in real and accelerated time scenarios. The war games are coordinated through either the Missile Defense Agency or the Joint Air and Missile Defense Organization.

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