SFS is looking for a Functional Analyst IV (Research Analyst) in support of a pending proposal supporting CASCOM Battle Lab in Fort Lee Va.
Essential Functions:
The Sustainment Battle Lab conducts and participates in wargames and experiments using constructive and live experiment environments; conducts analysis to gain insights, impacts, and recommends Doctrine, Organizations, Training, Leader Development, Materiel, Personnel and Facilities (DOTLMPF) changes to current and future force concepts, systems, and organizations; monitors and guides science and technology experiment initiatives and recommends integration into the current or future modular force.
Duties:
- Assists in the conduct of thorough analyses of experiment/exercise directives and objectives to provide orientation and focus for experimentation.
- Works in close coordination with Government personnel in determining information collection requirements and identifying specific tasks to be observed.
- Provides liaison with the experiment/exercise support teams and customers, including other military agencies, industrial partners, and educational institutions as appropriate.
- Assists in determining and overseeing the synchronization of scenario execution, collection of information, and report preparation.
- Provides doctrinal expertise and instructions in support of operational exercises.
- Assists in the preparation and conduct of experiments or exercises. Assists in the preparation of scenarios and operations plans.
- Researches and incorporates data drawn from a wide range of sources, such as military policy, service missions, war plans and simulations, etc., in support of doctrinal development/modification, force development data base requirements, exercise scenario and simulation development.
- In coordination with customers, conducts liaison with DoD agencies, COCOMs and component staffs, and public and private agencies and institutions in support of operational experiments/exercises, simulations, seminars, map exercises, scenario preparation and execution.
- Coordinates and assists in the preparation of the simulation databases, to include testing and validation.
- Reviews data collected proceeding, during, and following experiments/exercises to identify trends and inconsistencies with doctrine and to develop combat development feedback.
- Provides doctrinal and analytical expertise.
- Collects, assembles and analyzes inputs from exercise Observer/Controllers (O/C), workstation controllers and other sources as applicable. Synthesizes and analyzes information inputs to evaluate the completion of mission tasks and achievement of experimentation objectives.
Qualifications:
- Active Secret Clearance
- Master's degree from an accredited college or university and at least twenty (20) years of experience serving in a U.S. military agency as military or civilian in progressively responsible command and staff positions.
- A minimum of two (2) years of experimentation experience serving in a Training and Doctrine Command (TRADOC) or AFC Battle Lab as military or civilian can be substituted for five (5) years of the U.S. military agency experience.
- Experience in at least two (2) of the following:
- Minimum of three (3) years' experience with service or joint doctrine, to include combat, combat support, and combat service support operations.
- Minimum of six (6) years' experience with service or joint staffs organization, functions and procedures.
- Minimum of six (6) years' experience with service or joint organizations, operations, and exercises at levels comparable to Army Corps.
- Minimum of three (3) years' experience in the preparation and conduct of seminars, study groups and map exercises for general and senior field grade officers.
- Minimum of three (3) years' experience in conducting instruction in both small and large group formats.
- Minimum of three (3) years' experience in conducting post exercise effectiveness analysis and evaluations.
- Minimum of three (3) years' experience in the compilation and presentation, in both written and oral formats, of lessons learned and after action review material.
