Human Systems Integration (HSI) is a process designed to reduce life-cycle costs and improve system performance by considering human-related domains. Acquisition specialists lack objective, quantitative research findings on which to base trade-off analyses. This thesis used eight fiscal years of historical safety (mishaps), manpower (manning levels) and system performance (SORTS) data on the U.S. Navy's Frigates, collected from computer databases of routine reports, to explore relationships in an existing notional ...