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Making a Difference At Johnson & Johnson: Some Ergonomic Intervention Case Studies Ethicon, Inc. and Johnson & Johnson Health Care are two of Johnson & Johnson's largest domestic companies. Ethicon, [...]

Presents letters to the editor referencing articles and topics discussed in previous issues. "Al-Qaeda in America," which focused on the threat of another terrorist attack in the United States; "America Divided: It's Only the Blabocrats," which discussed the partisan divide on the U.S. political landscape; Use of mainstream movies as a teaching tool by Christians; Others.

As military systems become more advanced, more capable, and more sophisticated, they often become more complex. Of primary concern to the human factors specialist is the development of advanced control and display concepts, and application of reasonable tradeoff studies which will guide, if not drive the assessment of these concepts. Similarly, when confronted with conflicting standards and specifications, the human factors engineer must be able to effectively reconcile these discrepancies. Generally the issues pit system constraints (i.e., complexity and development and/or life cycle costs) against operator performance requirements or criteria. The principal objective of this paper is to identify and detail human factors issues requiring consideration when developing command and control concepts for advanced armored military vehicles within the Army's MANPRINT initiative. This paper draws on the authors' experience and expertise in the design and development of armored vehicles to point out the tradeoff considerations and processes necessary in designing complex military systems.