environmental scan and evaluation of key attributes of training scenarios involving moral-ethical dilemmas for military personnel

this funding opportunity is seeking submissions to conduct an environmental scan of academic literature, public documents, emerging trends, best practices, and challenges in moral-ethical dilemma scenarios, including recommendations for a conjoint experiment.

final report to include the following:

• final research report that outlines new and emerging research, best practices and approaches for developing scenarios involving moral ethical dilemmas (including scenarios developed for vr environments).
• identify and summarize academic literature and public documents regarding the types of virtual scenarios and key attributes of moral-ethical dilemmas relevant to military personnel.
• example attributes for consideration include perspective, interaction with leadership, decision-making role, moral-ethical dilemmas, urgency, physical distance, naturalistic decision making, experience, demographic variables, and demographic factors like sex/gender and ethnicity.
• provide recommendations on how to systematically evaluate the different features within each of the identified key attributes of scenarios involving moral-ethical dilemmas.
• provide recommendations for gender-based analysis and considering factors from both end user and leadership perspectives.
• provide recommendations for experimental design of a follow-up conjoint analysis from the end-user and leadership perspective based on the identified attributes and features from the environmental scan.
• bibliography of documents used to produce the final report.