ABSTRACT
Research on Situation Awareness (SA) continues to flourish in a wide variety of fields from driving to military command and control demonstrating its wide applicability outside of its original aviation origins. Indeed, we have found analogous language that has naturally arisen in other domains, such as 'the picture' in air traffic control (Endsley and Smolensky, 1998) or 'the bubble' in control rooms (Garbis and Artman, Chapter 15, this volume). Treatises on SA can be found in materials for mountaineering, educators and the martial arts. The ubiquitous nature of this work speaks primarily to the ubiquitous nature of SA - it underlies much of human performance in both man-made work operations, such as aircraft piloting, and non-engineered but challenging situations, such as warfighting. In this light, I would like to talk about where we are in terms of research on S A - the progress that has, or has not, been made and the research that is still needed to provide useful inputs to the job of training, or designing systems, that will foster SA in a difficult and challenging world.
