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.

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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

Select Recent Works

2023 Technical Report: “Navy Unmanned Maritime Systems platoon leadership fatigue level negatively impacts platoon performance during expeditionary mine countermeasures missions” (PDF)

2023 Manuscript: “Prevalence of hypothermia and critical hand temperatures during military cold water immersion training” (PDF)