ONR Human Social Cultural and Behavioral Sciences (HSBC) Applied Research and Advanced Technology Development

Human Social Cultural and Behavioral Sciences (HSBC) Applied Research and Advanced Technology Development.
To research, develop, and transition technologies, tools, and systems that will help to represent, understand, and forecast socio-cultural behavior at the strategic, operational and tactical level. HSCB has the following objectives:
- Advance understanding of the influence of socio-cultural factors on behavior as it applies to military-relevant contexts and environments, and provide empirically validated theories that can be instantiated in computational models.
- Provide new methods and technology, validated computational models, and software to assist warfighters and others in considering socio-cultural behavior factors for analysis, planning, and operations.
- Develop methods and tools for flexible delivery of training of socio-cultural knowledge, skills, and abilities at tactical and operational levels.
- Develop methods and tools for the collection, generation, standardization, integration, and transfer of socio-cultural data for use in computational models and decision support systems.