U.S. Army trainers are required to deliver effective training in less time than ever before. Therefore, research and development to support Soldier training must explore advanced learning environments, instructional strategies, and training-development processes to enable the rapid generation of training activities that are responsive to immediate training needs. The purpose of the present Phase II Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) effort was to research and develop an integrated platform of technologies, the U.S. Army Training Assistant (TA), to enable one stop creation, delivery, and management of web-enabled multimedia training exercises. The Phase II work detailed in this report consisted of behavioral research, development of a working TA prototype, and usability testing of the prototype. Results indicated that test participants generally found the TA to be easy to use, with the majority reporting that they could and would use it. If developed, the Phase III product would address four main areas of enhancement identified during user testing to create a tool that will allow unit trainers to create accurate, engaging training.

"August 2010"--T.p. "Army project number 622785A790"--T.p.

Introduction -- Phase I research and development -- Phase II research -- Phase II development: overview of the tool -- Phase II Findings -- Conclusions and recommendations for future research -- Appendixes: List of acronyms -- Background tasks and their associated learning objectives -- General training need categories and their associated learning objectives -- Demographic survey questions -- Fort Hood training generation protocol -- User impressions survey -- Focus group interview protocol -- Fort Carson training completion protocol -- Fort Carson training generation protocol -- User impressions survey results.