Lighthouse Human Systems Integration Platform

The Department of Defense invests heavily in training systems, but measuring the actual effectiveness of Human Systems Integration (HSI) — the discipline that ensures systems are designed for the humans who operate them — remained an unsolved challenge. Training organizations lacked a unified platform to measure, report, and improve HSI practices across complex weapon systems and carrier-based training environments.

For the Navy specifically, carrier-based training suffered from disconnected requirements data — when systems or assets changed, training curricula couldn't dynamically adapt. The result was training gaps, redundant instruction, and an inability to prove whether HSI investments were actually improving sailor performance.

JANUS developed and sustained the purpose-built Lighthouse technology stack through SBIR Phase III, creating the first comprehensive platform for measuring and reporting on the effectiveness of HSI tools, methods, and practices. Lighthouse provides a data-driven foundation for quantifying how well training systems serve their users — and where improvements will have the greatest impact.

Building on Lighthouse, JANUS delivered the Carrier Advanced Reconfigurable Training Systems (C-ARTS) to the Navy. C-ARTS solved the disconnected requirements problem by dynamically linking asset changes to training curricula — when a system changes, the training automatically adapts. The platform administered training across multiple carrier groups, scaling from development through full fleet deployment.

The Lighthouse stack provides the measurement backbone: tracking student progress, quantifying training effectiveness, and generating the evidence needed to justify HSI investments and continuously improve training outcomes.

JANUS delivered C-ARTS training to 1,361 students with over 19,000 class hours across multiple carrier groups, including CVN 78 (Gerald R. Ford) and CVN 79 (John F. Kennedy). The platform's dynamic linking of asset changes to training requirements eliminated the training gaps that previously resulted from disconnected data.

The Lighthouse platform — sustained through SBIR Phase III — now provides the Navy with a proven, data-driven tool for measuring HSI effectiveness at scale. For the first time, training leadership has quantifiable evidence of what works, enabling resource allocation decisions based on data rather than intuition.