ABSTRACT
When information is unavailable or is used improperly, a variety of problems arise such as fratricide, when friendly forces are inaccurately identified as enemy combatants and are attacked and killed by their compatriots. In particular, we apply models of information processing in teams to show how teams can use and remember more information and thus make more accurate judgments than individuals. An important general pattern of the data is that both individuals and teams achieved very low levels of accuracy on the target identification tests. By focusing on the processing of information and judgments of individuals and teams in a situation with heavy cognitive demands, it is possible to examine critical features of command and control. By using the measures we are able to examine how teams and individuals compare in their identification judgments about targets when they are presented with a cognitively demanding situation involving a number of targets.
