With the increased sophistication of weapons systems and the reduced funds for operating these systems, the military is experiencing significant skill degradation, leading to degraded combat readiness. Embedded Training has been proposed as a solution to this problem and substantial research is underway to develop efficient Embedded Training design principles. However, large numbers of weapons systems are currently in development and the designers need guidance now on how to design Embedded Training into those systems.

This paper presents an approach for determining the most cost-effective training capabilities to embed into the operational equipment. This approach is based on the consolidation of research in the areas of Embedded Training and skill degradation.