Mission Planning System Administrator; Level 3

The F-35 Mission Planning Test & Evaluation Administrator’s primary role is to support flight test activities at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station on the F-35B and F-35C aircraft as part of the Air Vehicle Mission Planning Environment (MPE) team.

• Deploy mission plans for communications and datalinks, sensor configurations, and weapon system planning.
• Coordinate with Mission Systems, Weapon Integration teams, and pilots to deploy and evaluate new capabilities.
• Manage both ground and airborne COMSEC configurations.
• Coordinate with Test Operations, Flight Operations, and Aircraft Maintenance teams.
• Deploy and administer MPE hardware and network infrastructure.
• Install latest developmental releases of MPE software, maintain user accounts, and support system audits.
• Support MPE and related mission systems equipment maintenance and troubleshoot issues.
• Maintain DoD IAT Level II certification (e.g., CompTIA Security+).

• Demonstrated Mission Planning experience.
• Experience handling COMSEC information.
• Ability to obtain and retain DoD IAT Level II certification within 60 days of hire.
• Willingness and ability to work extended hours, odd or off‑shifts, and weekends as needed.
• Ability to attain and maintain Secret collateral and SAP program clearances.

• MPE experience with JMPS.
• F-35 Multi‑Ship Virtual Development Lab (MVDL) experience.
• Experience troubleshooting applications.
• Account maintenance with Active Directory, Oracle, or CRM.
• Disaster recovery: backups and restores of physical servers, virtual machines, databases, and network equipment.
• Virtual machine management with Hyper‑V or VMware.
• Maintaining and upgrading system hardware and rack component start/stop procedures.
• Applying updates, anti‑virus, anti‑spyware, and patch updates.

Must be a U.S. citizen and this position requires a government security clearance. The clearance level required is Secret with investigation or CV date within 5 years.

• Medical
• Dental
• 401(k)
• Paid time off
• Work/life balance
• Career development
• Mentorship opportunities
• Rewards & recognition

Experience Level: Experienced Professional.