The development of embedded training (ET) guidelines by the Army Research Institute (Witmer and Knerr, 1991a, 1991b) has afforded military planners a systematic method for making critical training decisions related to embedded training systems and other training alternatives. Recent work at NTSC and STRICOM has attempted to expand the use of the guidelines by providing an automated version of the algorithms used in the model. The current study reviews and incorporates those efforts while continuing to expand the capability of an automated version of the guidelines in the areas of:

user interface;

making the terminology generic to all services (where necessary);

user help and instruction;

decision documentation; and

decision-aiding for training media cost analysis.

This paper describes the current and future development of a tool (the ET DART) that will fully support decision-making processes related to embedded training.