The Training Analysis Review & Comment System (TARCS) is being developed to furnish the F-22 and other follow-on weapon systems with a CALS-compliant, user-friendly capability of reviewing completed Instructional Systems Development (ISD) data generated by the use of Joint Services ISD/LSAR Decision Support System (DSS) software. TARCS will also give users the ability to provide feedback on data reviewed to the weapon system training team.

TARCS will allow the user to:

1) Review Training Determination Information (i.e., training requirements), including weapon system and training system concept information.

2) See the logic used by the ISD Analyst in the Task and Media Models to arrive at the training requirements for each task.

3) Read supporting comments or other information entered by the analyst.

4) Perform "what-if" scenarios on responses to decision model responses.

TARCS will be a multi-platform, client-server software application utilizing a Graphic User Interface (GUI), and is designed to be easily adaptable to future training system development projects that use the Joint Services ISD/LSAR DSS software as the ISD decision support tool.

To ensure the "integrated, concurrent design of products and their related processes" in training systems development (IDA Report R-338, cited in Gorman, 1991), TARCS is designed to provide customer access to training products. This approach helps accomplish what all good programs should accomplish: the ability to meet the customer's requirements while building in quality at the outset.

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P. Watson, Ph.D.