The "One Team" theme concept will have to include a closer integration of system performance with human performance and limitations. The Cognitive Cockpit (CogPit) is an effort to look at leading edge physiological and neuro-physiological advances applied to operational environments, integrating the "best of the best", and providing a weapons platform capable of enhancing the human's capability beyond today's standard performance expectations. Leveraging technology advancements being matured under DARPA IPTO's Improving Warfighter Information Intake Under Stress (IWIIUS), the CogPit strives to be a revolutionary system that will provide relevant and timely operational data to the pilot in a manner that will allow increased cognitive processing while maintaining or increasing operational performance. The CogPit allows the warfighting system, the plane, to be aware of the pilot's cognitive loading and how best to provide additional or new information in a manner that will not disrupt overall system performance. Four industry teams have been maturing the IWIIUS technology over the past two years. Each team has been developing in a unique warfighting system environment and together they have encompassed the land, air and sea domains. The CogPit is looking at the different neurological and physiological sensor systems and related technology as well as cognitive performance enhancing technologies to integrate best of breed to further mature the state of the art. Additionally, the CogPit will be a test bed for developing tactical cockpits of the future.
The Cognitive Cockpit - State of the Art Human-System Integration
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