The Provision of Multidomain Integration Change Programme Decision Advantage Pilot

The requirement is for a team of Suitably Qualified Experienced Personnel (SQEP) to deliver and validate a cognitive training package focused on developing decision advantage within the Land, Air, Sea, Cyber, and Space domains that will

a. teach better decision-making in Volatile, Uncertain, Complex and Ambiguous (VUCA) multidomain environments;

b. enhance decision-making in multidomain environments without relying on the repetition characterising the military decision-making model and annual exercise cycle (predictable and forecast scenarios);

c. enhance metacognition of decision-making and awareness of decision-making ability amongst our personnel relative to an international database of security professionals; and

d. achieve better understanding of decision-making as a core military skill essential to achieving decision advantage in multidomain environments and decisive advantage in response to operational complexity. DELIVERABLES

SME’s from each of the five domains will be asked to partner with the External Assistance and the MDICP CB&M team for 1-1.5 days to develop bespoke MDI scenarios centred on their respective domain. Resulting in the development of scenarios to create decision points requiring ‘least worst’ decisions characterised by uncertainty. Thereafter, it is proposed that Defence Academy personnel, plus ISTAR and MAB personnel will receive:

e. ten theory-based micro-lectures (5 mins each) on decision-making. These are designed to educate personnel on decision-making and factors affecting decision-making performance beyond the self-evident and well-understood performance decrement arising from stress and fatigue;

f. five micro-lectures (8 mins each) to highlight individual factors affecting decision-making and a battery of self-reflection measures for enduring use to improve both decision-making and decision-making awareness (these include, but are not limited to, need for maximisation, need for closure, violation of sacred values);

g. bespoke and