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Composing and Developing Resilient, Adaptive, and Self-Sustaining Teams for Long Duration Space Exploration (Completed)

Last Published: 04/20/22 11:43:24 AM (Central)

Task Book: Entry
Principal Investigator: Tannenbaum, Scott

Short Title: Autonomous Teams (Resilient, Adaptive, Self-sustaining Teams)

Responsible HRP Element: Behavioral Health and Performance

Collaborating Org(s):

Behavioral Health & Performance (BHP) Element

Funding Status: Completed - Task completed and produced a deliverable

Procurement Mechanism(s):

Solicited

Aims:
The effort falls within the Research Focus of Team Autonomy and directly examines three of the Team Autonomy research questions posed in the NRA:

1) How can individuals be selected who will thrive in an autonomous environment?
2) How should teams be composed to form a high-performing autonomous team?
3) What additional training techniques must be developed to support these teams?

The proposed program of research focuses directly on:
• PRD Risk: Performance Decrements due to Inadequate Team Cooperation,
Coordination, Communication, and Psychosocial Adaptation.

•Team Gap 8: We need to identify psychological and psychosocial factors, measures, and combinations thereof that can be used to compose highly effective crews for autonomous, long duration and/or distance exploration missions.

Each of the deliverables specified in the technical proposal are designed to address the NRA research questions, PRD Risk, and IRP Gap noted above.
In support of NRA questions 1 and 2 regarding crew member selection and team composition,
a series of evidence-based contextually relevant guidelines and recommendations for team formation, including the identification of options and related criteria will be delivered.
In support of NRA question 3 regarding training techniques to support autonomous teams, a white paper of self-sustainment countermeasures; a framework linking diagnostics with countermeasures; a prototype of a diagnostic-driven team self-sustainment countermeasure; guidelines for conducting pre-mission team training that prepares teams for self-sustainment during missions; and specifications for an automated, diagnostic-driven, Team Autonomous Self-Development and Sustainment (TAS2) module, will be provided.

In addition, diagnostics, criteria measures, and a new research methodology that can be used in future NASA research efforts that examine the PRD Risk and IPR Gap targeted in the proposal. In sum, this project aims to make advancements that will help NASA mitigate the risk of performance decrements during LDSE missions.

Resources (Ground Analog, Other)

Deliverables (1)

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Risk of Adverse Cognitive or Behavioral Conditions and Psychiatric Disorders

BMed-101: We need to identify, quantify, and validate the key selection factors for astronaut cognitive and behavioral strengths (e.g., resiliency) and operationally-relevant performance threats for increasingly Earth independent, long-duration, autonomous, and/or long-distance exploration missions.

BMed-103: What are the validated, efficacious treatments (individual or Team-based) and/or countermeasures to prevent adverse behavioral conditions, CNS/neurological, and/or psychiatric disorders caused by either single and/or integrated exposures to spaceflight hazards during exploration class missions?

Composing and Developing Resilient, Adaptive, and Self-Sustaining Teams for Long Duration Space Exploration

Risk of Performance and Behavioral Health Decrements Due to Inadequate Cooperation, Coordination, Communication, and Psychosocial Adaptation within a Team

Team-101: We need to understand the key threats, indicators, and evolution of the team throughout its life cycle for shifting autonomy and interface with automation in increasingly earth independent, long duration exploration missions.

Team-103: We need to identify psychological and psychosocial factors, measures, and combinations thereof for use in selecting individuals and composing highly effective crews most likely to maintain team function during shifting autonomy in increasingly earth independent, long duration exploration missions.

Team-105: We need to identify a set of countermeasures to support team function and enable multiple distributed teams to manage shifting levels of autonomy for all phases of increasingly earth independent, long duration exploration missions.

Composing and Developing Resilient, Adaptive, and Self-Sustaining Teams for Long Duration Space Exploration

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Ground-Based Flight Analogs Controlled Research Analog, Short Duration (2 months or less) – isolated and confined with spaceflight mission scenario [e.g., HERA, NEEMO]
Number of Subjects	36

Common Item(s)
	Risk of Adverse Cognitive or Behavioral Conditions and Psychiatric Disorders