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Senior Wargames and Exercise Analyst
Qualis Corporation
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Colorado
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💰 $120,000 - $180,000 per year
Job Level
Senior
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About the role
- Support planning and management of program transitions and operational integration.
- Research and evaluate exercises and wargames conducted by CCMDs, Services, Joint organizations, and the Intelligence Community and nominate select exercises and wargames for SDA engagement.
- Conceive, plan, and organize SDA participation in exercises and wargames by drafting use cases, scenarios, warfighter integration objectives, and supporting test activities.
- Act as direct liaison with host organizations to secure SDA participation within larger exercise and training objectives.
- Attend Joint Event Life Cycle (JELC) events (IPC, MPC, FPC) advocating SDA objectives.
- Conduct warfighter integration activities (operational briefings, training orientation sessions) supporting deployment and adoption of PWSA capabilities (data transport, space-based Link 16, missile warning/missile tracking data).
- Assist in preparing potential Courses of Action (COAs) and guide participants in COA analysis; recommend refinements to TTPs and organizational processes.
- Provide technical expertise in PWSA capabilities and limitations, including deployment timelines and early release procedures.
- Coordinate with other SDA offices and programs to ensure mutually supportive goals for exercises and wargames.
- Analyze outcomes versus desired results; research root causes of deviations and document lessons learned.
- Engage with exercise participants and DoD stakeholders to secure support for SDA deployment, training, operational demonstrations, and test activities.
- Examine novel wargaming methods to highlight PWSA capabilities to the joint warfighter.
- Work collaboratively with analysts, M&S experts, warfighters, and technical support personnel to enable warfighter exploitation of PWSA capabilities.
- Use operational experience, analytical skills, and technical expertise to create, present, and document successes and shortfalls; support ground system planning, operational test and evaluation activities.
Requirements
- A bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university is required.
- Must have an active TS/SCI security clearance.
- Minimum fifteen (15) years of recent and relevant experience in DoD acquisitions or operations, exercises, training, planning and related activities.
- Established record demonstrating an ability to work largely unsupervised.
- Ability to interact appropriately with all levels of the staff, from Action Officers to executive leaders.
- Strong briefing skills for executive-level audiences.
- Proven ability to follow-through on all tasks.
- Desired: A master’s degree from an accredited college or university.
- Desired: Experience in Operations Centers in Joint capacity (Joint Intelligence/Operations Centers, Air Operations Centers, Maritime Operations Centers, Army Engagement Centers).
- Desired: Experience with non-standard acquisition processes (SpRCO, MDA, SCO - outside JCIDS).
- Desired: Experience with NORTHCOM core missions (Missile Warning/Defense, Homeland Defense, Maritime Awareness, Defense Support to Civil Authorities (DSCA)).
- Desired: Knowledge of NORAD-USNORTHCOM space operations and organizational relationships.
- Desired: Familiarity with US Space Command - NORAD-USNORTHCOM relationship.
