Job Description
Valiant is seeking a dynamic Joint Experimentation Planner to provide research, planning, analysis, exercise, and experimentation support to the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command (USINDOPACOM) Requirements and Resources Directorate (J8) at Camp H.M. Smith, Hawaii.
The Joint Experimentation Planner will support the J81 Joint Innovation and Experimentation Division with the integration of operational and planning expertise into the command’s multi-domain experimentation efforts. The ever-increasing demands associated with a congested and contested operational environment requires strategic and operational partners who are properly postured to meet mission critical requirements. This position will support innovative approaches to integrate capabilities and coordinate with OSD, Joint Staff, Service Components, research labs, industry, and other stakeholders.
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBLITIES:
- Support each relevant planning conference for Joint Exercise Lifecycle (JELC) events (e.g. VALIANT SHIELD, NORTHERN EDGE and TALISMAN SABRE, KEEN SWORD, GRAY FLAG, BALIKATAN, COBRA GOLD, PACIFIC SENTRY and RIMPAC).
- Support the development of tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTP), and operational concepts for new and emerging technologies and enable the integration of them into joint exercises.
- Contribute expertise in the application of operational concepts and doctrine to fast-moving experimentation scenarios.
- Participate in mission briefings and debriefings, trouble-shooting problems related to experiments, and contributing to the orderly flow of the exercise as it pertains to executing the experiments.
- Provide a Data Collection, Analysis, and Evaluation Plan (DCAEP) for each technology integrated into designated JELC exercises.
- Perform in-depth reviews and evaluations of all the information supplied by the various experimenting entities.
- Support data scientists and Operations Research and Systems Analysis (ORSA) personnel before, during, and after experimentation, test, and exercise events to develop data management and analysis plans (DMAPs), measures of effectiveness and measures of performance.
- Ensure the protection of classified information related to experimentation technologies and capabilities during exercise planning and execution.
- Travel approximately 20% annually, both to Mainland U.S. and Allied and Partner nations, in support of conferences, planning sessions, and exercises/experiments.
- Other duties as assigned.