Operations and Human Factors
Our mission is to support the military that protects the interests of the Netherlands, even at the frontlines.
We work on innovative solutions that provide Defense with the best tools and methods. For individual soldiers and teams. In contact with each other and their systems. With progressive education and training, aimed at executing comprehensive operations under the most challenging circumstances.
With all our scientific knowledge, skills, and energy, we support Defense, so technological innovation becomes an integral part of military practice.
This way, our military personnel remains world-class in every domain: land, sea, air, space, and digital. On every scale, from heartbeat to headquarters.
Read how the Ministry of Defence, emergency services, and also companies use our knowledge on this subject.

Our vision on operations and human factors
TNO supports the Dutch armed forces with innovative analysis and evaluation methods, models, and the latest simulation technologies.
Our latest developments
Desdemona: The ultimate motion simulator
The multi-purpose Desdemona simulator recently installed at TNO will definitely push the limits of movement simulation.


Human Behavior and Training
Focus on interventions for behavioural change to accelerate the acceptance of 'new' behaviour by customers and citizens.
Human performance
The Human performance expertise group focuses on the optimization and improvement of human performance in challenging circumstances.
Effective, efficient and flexible armed forces
How do people overcome their self-imposed limitations? What work best suits their abilities? Find out how we research this.
Adaptive learning architectures
Robust and agile: the new conditions of an adaptive defence organisation. TNO carries out applied research into the adaptive capacity of defence.