Description

Position Overview

This position provides advisory and assistance services (A&AS) to sustain and enhance USSTRATCOM's wargaming and experimentation efforts. This is a contingent-on-award role.

The position leads the design, development, execution, and adjudication of strategic and educational wargames, provides scenario-based deterrence analysis and assessments in support of USSTRATCOM operational and contingency plans, and contributes senior-level expertise in deterrence-focused wargaming, U.S. Government decision-making processes, and allied burden-sharing dynamics.

This is a contingent-on-award position. Employment is subject to contract award by the Government. Candidates selected will be notified of their contingent status and kept informed of award progress.

Security Clearance Requirements

This position requires access to classified systems and material supporting national-security programs. All contractor personnel must be U.S. citizens and maintain a Top Secret (TS) security clearance, with eligibility for Sensitive Compartmented Information (SCI), Nuclear Command and Control (NC2), and Special Access Programs (SAP) accesses. Eligibility for required accesses must be held at time of task order award or prior to commencement of work/replacement approval. Personnel must comply with the task order DD Form 254, Department of Defense Security Classification Specification, applicable USSTRATCOM security instructions, cybersecurity and physical-security requirements, and all applicable requirements for handling classified and restricted-distribution information.

Requirements

Key Responsibilities
• Assist in war game development and execution, including scenario development, analysis support to wargaming, and identification and tracking of lessons learned.
• Author professional war game reports documenting analysis, findings, and outcomes.
• Provide scenario-based deterrence analysis to war gaming activities designed to test USSTRATCOM Operational Plan (OPLAN) and Contingency Plan (CONPLAN) deterrence actions.
• Provide scenario-based deterrence assessments to war gaming activities evaluating USSTRATCOM OPLAN/CONPLAN integration with other OPLAN/CONPLAN actions.
• Conduct hypothesis-based Deterrence Impact Analysis to test deterrence assumptions in experimentation.
• Develop or guide the creation of tools to display visualizations of scenarios, including modeling and simulation outputs, for senior leader audiences.
• Provide wargame expertise relating to the operation of the U.S. Government, including perspectives emulating the decision-making of apolitical U.S. elected officials and the U.S. relationship with allies and adversaries.
• Apply SME-level knowledge of wargame design, development, execution, adjudication, and post-game analysis at the strategic and operational levels.
• Apply SME-level knowledge of scenario development, including multi-domain, joint, and interagency scenarios supporting deterrence, OPLAN/CONPLAN assessment, and strategic decision-making.
• Apply SME-level knowledge of U.S. Government decision-making processes, including interagency coordination, national-level decision structures, and the roles of elected officials in crisis and deterrence contexts.
• Apply SME-level knowledge of the transactional nature of U.S. alliances, the imperative of allied burden-sharing, and competitive dynamics influencing strategic decision-making.
• Identify, capture, and synthesize lessons learned from wargames and experiments, producing high-quality analytic reports and written documentation.
• Prepare trip reports, technical reports, and presentation materials documenting wargame results, analysis, and travel in accordance with contract deliverable requirements.

Required Qualifications
• A minimum of 12 years of experience in professional military wargaming, operational planning, or strategic analysis within the Department of War, Joint Staff, a Combatant Command, or an equivalent organization.
• Master's degree (or higher) in Political Science, International Relations, Security Studies, Military Operations, or a related national security field.
• SME-level knowledge of wargame design, development, execution, adjudication, and post-game analysis at the strategic and operational levels.
• SME-level knowledge of scenario development, including multi-domain, joint, and interagency scenarios supporting deterrence, OPLAN/CONPLAN assessment, and strategic decision-making.
• Demonstrated SME-level expertise in deterrence-focused wargaming, including Deterrence Impact Analysis and hypothesis-based experimentation.
• SME-level knowledge of U.S. Government decision-making processes, including interagency coordination, national-level decision structures, and the roles of elected officials in crisis and deterrence contexts.
• SME-level knowledge of the transactional nature of U.S. alliances, the imperative of allied burden-sharing, and competitive dynamics that influence strategic decision-making.
• Demonstrated SME-level ability in identifying, capturing, and synthesizing lessons learned from wargames and experiments, and producing high-quality analytic reports and written documentation.
• Demonstrated SME-level ability in developing or guiding the creation of professional visualization tools, decision-support products, and scenario displays for senior leader audiences, including the integration of AI-enabled capabilities.
• U.S. citizenship required.
• Active Top Secret (TS) security clearance with eligibility for SCI, NC2, and SAP access, required at time of task order award or prior to commencement of work/replacement approval.

Preferred Qualifications
• Prior direct experience supporting USSTRATCOM, another Combatant Command, Joint Staff, or an equivalent national security organization on wargaming or deterrence issues.
• Experience collaborating with deterrence analysis efforts supporting mission analysis, courses of action development, or deterrence impact assessment.
• Experience with allied burden-sharing analysis or assessment of allied contributions to collective deterrence.
• Familiarity with emerging AI-enabled analytic or visualization tools and their application to wargame execution and decision-support products.
• Experience supporting strategic deterrence education initiatives or engagements with JPME-accredited institutions and service academies.