The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will convene an ad hoc committee to recommend promising research opportunities and design considerations to inform the 2021 strategic research agenda of the 711th Human Performance Wing (711 HPW) of the Air Force Research Laboratory (AFRL). The committee will explore critical human-systems integration issues for designing autonomous agents having greater transparency and intelligibility to support effective joint human-machine decision making and performance in multi-domain command and control operations. The committee will convene a public workshop as the primary source of information for its work.

The workshop, developed with input related to current AFRL 711th Human Performance Wing research priority areas, will examine the understanding of effective team performance in human interaction with artificial intelligence (AI) in the context of warfighter-centered designs and systems.

With attention to multi-domain command and control operations, the committee will:

- Identify key human-systems integration design considerations, methods, approaches, and associated research aimed at warfighter systems that incorporate human-AI teaming;

- Identify gaps in knowledge on effective human-machine teaming necessary to achieve future Air Force mission capability; and

- Identify promising human-systems integration and human factors research opportunities that would accelerate mission capability development.

With respect to the identification of research opportunities, the areas of human robot interaction and manned-unmanned aircraft teaming will not be examined. Additionally, the committee’s primary focus will be the human effectiveness component of human-AI teaming rather than the computer science and software dimensions.