This paper presents research being done to develop a training analysis tool that will allow training decisions to influence the design of weapon systems earlier in system development than ever before possible and to update these decisions throughout the system's life cycle. Integration of training into the acquisition and engineering process is often a very slow process. The Air Force has developed operational systems without qualified maintenance and support personnel assigned to the systems. Under current operations in the acquisition arena, funding is available for only a single training analysis. By implementing a method to influence design with training issues early in development, a trained and equipped force prepared to maintain and support new weapon systems will be available as the systems become operational. The objective of the tool is to select tasks for training, assign tasks to instructional settings, determine task training times, and determine training resource requirements for new systems by using an empirical data set associated with existing systems.