ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses efforts to capture team cognition processes during the Canadian portion of Exercise Northern Goshawk with a Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale (BARS) we designed for the purpose. Having identified the phases of Close Air Support (CAS) where team behaviors would be most evident, it sets about developing anchors for the BARS based on the behavioral markers of team cognition breakdown proposed by K. A. Wilson et al. The team Hierarchical Task Analysis (HTA) identified the different members of the broad CAS team but only the Forward Air Controller (FAC) and Pilot branches were developed in detail. The exercise was designed as a CAS, Time Sensitive Targeting (TST), and Troops in Contact (TIC) training event involving participants and researchers at simulation sites in Canada, the US, and the UK. Poor transmission quality on the simulated radio channel also made it difficult for the players to understand each other.
