A Team Training Taxonomy to Reduce Friendly Fire Incidents

taxonomy. We concluded that in the absence of adequate sharedcognition, soldiers can have problems interpreting cues, makingdecisions, and taking correct action.Although technological solutions have been implemented toprevent friendly fire incidents, such as combat identification sys-tems (e.g., Blue Force Tracker), factors such as sleep deprivationcan still lead to human error, and technology can fail or simply beunavailable. What’s needed, we believe, is a better understandingof specific failures of teamwork, including information transmis-sion, team behavior, and team attitude.