ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on board a Royal Air Force Boeing E3D Sentry Airborne Warning and Control System aircraft. The role of the E3D team was to provide support for both ground and fighter personnel, and involved providing a global picture of the war from the sky as it developed. This information was relayed to ground support staff and to individual fighter pilots. Propositional networks were constructed to show the knowledge that is related to the E3D mission. The E3D task has a total of 11 phases of operation, namely assume station, manage airborne battle, coordinate crew, manage communications, ensure operational procedures are followed, manage self defence, manage operations/comms security, and control surveillance/operate electronic surveillance manager equipment. The operation sequence diagram (OSD) is constructed from the data that were gathered during the observation of the E3D mission. The OSD representation provides a means of summarising the outputs from the coordination demand analysis and social network analysis.
