The Expeditionary Cognitive Science (ExCS) Group
The ExCS Group is a team of psychologists, neuroscientists, physiologists, and data scientists committed to:
Understanding cognition and decision-making in military settings
Identifying key points of cognitive and physical decrements within operations and training
Improving warfighter performance through transitionable research and development
The ExCS Group is able to leverage its interdisciplinary nature to provide impactful guidance to our operational partners.
Current Projects
Optimizing lethality
Attention and decision-making under multi-factor environmental stress
Assessing the feasibility of nutritional and material mitigations to cold stress
Performance and mitigation strategies during bouts of cognitive fatigue and sleep loss
Performance monitoring and training optimization of unmanned systems platoons