Cognitive Skill Sets and Strategies in Situational Assessment and Situational Awareness (SA)

Law enforcement and security professionals keep looking for the “silver bullet” to understand how to gather, sort and process information when they are under dynamic operational constraints in their different “worlds of risk and threats.”

The genuine answer to observing and apprehending terrorists, being prepared for active shooter incidents, “keeping the initiative” in fighting crime and returning home safely each night, literally rests on the shoulders of every police officer, security officer, federal agent, border patrol agent and first responder.

Behind the “silver bullet” is a human being who is expected to always possess a high level of cognitive skills and strategies in Situational Assessment and Situational Awareness (SA):

• To protect ourselves, society and save lives we must
• OBSERVE-GATHER-PROCESS-TAKE RELIABLE ACTION on information and incidents in complex, dynamic and rapidly changing environments.

The key to unlocking and maintaining a high level of situation assessment and situation awareness (SA) comes from constant training in visual recognition and identification and the cognitive skills and strategies needed to anticipate future situational events and dynamics. Rapid visual recognition and observation, and situation assessment and situation awareness (SA), are the basic tools of all identification procedures in our “different worlds of risk and threats.”

Observation On Demand (O2D) is a learner-centric and performance-centric company of investigators, advisers and trainers, who have pioneered Rapid Recognition Training™—a program that prepares trainees to become a true trained rapid observer with a high level of situation assessment and situation awareness (SA) in “different worlds of risk and threats.” Using both electronic and human performance technologies (HPT), O2D is developing virtual workouts that Reboot the Mind through Mental Athletics to improve visual acuity, reaction time, pattern recognition, and cognitive skills and strategies to anticipate future situational events and dynamics. This virtual training can save the lives of first responders and the lives of others in our different “worlds of risk and threats.”

Through its mission statement, Observation On Demand (O2D) is committed to incorporating socially meaningful and measurable criteria that address the moral and ethical position of the enterprise, its public image, its target markets and products and services, its geographic domain, and its expectations of growth and profitability.

Observation On Demand (O2D) Mission Statement

Become recognized as the global leader of the most valued safety and security communities of practice networks of investigators, advisers and trainers in “Rebooting the Mind through Mental Athletics,” who leverage blending technical-craft with street-craft innovations and customer driven solutions to solve the variance between novice and expert human-centric, learner-centric, and performance-centric skill sets required to maintain initiative in security management, law enforcement, tactical operations, homeland security and defense, and force readiness in overlay security systems within different “Worlds of Risk and Threats.”