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With these essential building blocks, the Soldier-centered design team will create a rough design of the user interface that USERS FRONT AND CENTER Through Soldier-centered design, end users are front and center in the development process. In the U.S. Army, human-systems integration analysts, who are typically human factors engineers or research psychologists, develop humansystems integration plans documenting the Soldier-centered design process and planned Soldier touch-point events. Soldier-centered design places those who ultimately use the system squarely in the center of the design process ensuring their feedback and needs are the foremost consideration when making design tradeoffs and decisions. LESSONS LEARNED The top 12 lessons learned during our efforts to integrate Soldier-centered design into Agile development include the following: Build a strong design foundation with early Soldier-centered design activities. [Extracted from the article]

The pandemic has intensified clinicians’ workloads, leading to an increased incidence of adverse events and subsequent second victim syndrome, with almost half of healthcare clinicians experiencing its symptoms. However, following a literature review, no tools were found that addressed second victim syndrome in nurses. To address these issues and the gap in the literature, we developed the BONE Break hot debriefing tool. BONE Break is designed to be facilitated by charge nurses or other unit leaders as a means of offering peer support to other nurses who went through an adverse event. During its initial implementation, BONE Break was employed in 43 of 46 events adverse events (93.5%), and 41 of 43 sessions (95.4%) were deemed helpful. We have continued to gain stakeholder buy-in and implement BONE Break across multiple sites. Future work will determine BONE Break's efficacy in enhancing long-term nursing retention and reducing second victim symptoms.

The article discusses the demonstration of the U.S. Army Integrated Air and Missile Defense program (AIAMD) in the U.S. It notes that the five phase of the demonstration include the training phase, system integration, and live air object environment was conducted to mitigate the program executive officer missiles and space leadership's (PEO MS) concern. It explains that the establishment of the subject matter expert's (SME) early in the planning cycle was crucial to the demonstration's success.

The article features skateboarder Kevin Love and his achievement in the skateboarding industry.

Several letters to the editor at mailbag are presented about the BMX magazine including thank you notes and answers to the questions like is freecoasters progressing BMX and positive self image for track.