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This paper is a conceptual thought experiment that discusses the need for efficient, interactive and interoperative, applicationand learner-centered collaborative technologies to enable implementation of cognitive apprenticeship, training, and other types of education and sociological techniques that can help change the engineering environment, both educational and occupational, to enhance recruitment of nontraditional STEM professionals and enhance all STEM Professional's ability to function in their chosen occupational settings. The authors recommend using holistic systems engineering design approaches to develop collaborative technology (CT) that can be used to change these cultures. The authors conclude that multidisciplinary work teams that include educators, social science systems engineers and history of science and technology systems engineers, who have support from the highest levels of management, should be used to resolve the identified problems.

This paper discusses the topics of complex systems, complex adaptive systems, and complex problems. For network-centric warfare (NCW) using complex systems, it is necessary to develop collaborative technological systems that function within a cybernetic organismic network (CON) according to holistic systems engineering and nonlinear stochastic processes. Consequently, there are differences between how issues and problems are processed. Issues are people-oriented problems that interfere with technology development. Problems are related to technology itself and can be more easily resolved. To develop collaborative technology systems that function within a CON and perform NCW requires holistic systems engineering and nonlinear reasoning about agents thinking, learning, and adapting accordingly.