Developing a training program concurrently with full-scale development of a new system has been looked upon by several educational professionals as being impossible. The US Air Force desire to shorten the time from drawing board to full operational capability for a weapon system requires combining normal system life phases whenever possible. Therefore, the 4235th Strategic Training Squadron was tasked to develop a training program for the Offensive Avionics System (OAS) and Air Launch Cruise Missile (ALCM) Modifications to the B-52 G and H fleets concurrently with full-scale development of hardware and software for the aircraft. Having written the training program using the ISD approach, the squadron provides insight into the problems of such an effort and the solutions it developed to overcome those problems. Areas addressed in this paper include:

(1) Developing a core of knowledge about a new system without an established working model.

(2) Selecting an organizational method for presenting the training program.

(3) Developing training devices.

(4) Developing technical orders.

(5) Handling of changes to system operation and implementing them into the training program.

(6) Selecting instructional media.

(7) Selecting instructors.