Experimentation and Maritime Exercise Planning Subject Matter Expert

Experimentation and Maritime Exercise Planning Subject Matter Expert

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Valiant is looking for an
Experimentation and Maritime Exercise Planning Subject Matter Expert to join our team!

The ideal candidate is experienced experimentation and maritime exercise planning subject matter expert to support planning and execution of experiments in theater-level exercises in the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command area of responsibility. Candidate will work with a team of Valiant Integrated Services experts and military and government personnel to develop, test, and demonstrate advanced concepts and technologies in a range of military exercises.

• Integrate material and non-material experimentation into test, demonstration, and exercise events using traditional experimentation or “free play” approach as appropriate.
• Utilize a “design-of-experiments” approach to develop integration proposals and incorporate them into demonstration, simulation, test, and exercise events, establishing and assessing validity, reliability, precision, and credibility standards.
• Plan and execute maritime exercise events that incorporate both readiness-based training tasks and cutting-edge experimentation.
• Build and execute exhaustive data collection and analysis plans.
• Apply experimentation results to real-world critical military capability gaps to inform potential solutions in the form of acquisition strategies or revisions to concepts of operations and tactics, techniques, and procedures.
• Work with senior personnel on the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command staff, other combatant commands, Joint Staff, and component staffs to coordinate planning and integration of experiments into major theater exercises including PACIFIC SENTRY, VALIANT SHIELD, KEEN EDGE, NORTHERN EDGE, and TALISMAN SABRE.
• Work with technical experts in a range of disciplines to ensure planning contributes to successful execution of USINDOPACOM-sponsored experimentation objectives.
• Draft and staff documents designed to implement novel concepts and mature existing ones, including concepts of operation, and tactics techniques and procedures.
• Conduct preliminary planning, site surveys, and concept development through exercise execution, including participation in planning conferences and technical working groups.
• Develop and present professional briefings, trip reports, white papers, and other informational documents designed to inform senior decision-makers and, when appropriate, recommend courses of action.
• Participate in or facilitate operational planning teams (OPTs), bureaus, boards, cells, conferences, and working group events, information paper development, operational and strategic assessments, and response to or creation of Requests for Information (RFIs), and after-action review (AAR).
• Contribute to synchronization of objectives, activities, and investments (OAI) in a matrix organization with multiple functional areas and provide written reports and briefs to senior military audiences.
• Integrate material and non-material experimentation into test, demonstration, and exercise events using traditional experimentation or “free play” approach as appropriate.
• Utilize a “design-of-experiments” approach to develop integration proposals and incorporate them into demonstration, simulation, test, and exercise events, establishing and assessing validity, reliability, precision, and credibility standards.
• Plan and execute maritime exercise events that incorporate both readiness-based training tasks and cutting-edge experimentation.
• Build and execute exhaustive data collection and analysis plans.
• Apply experimentation results to real-world critical military capability gaps to inform potential solutions in…