Deterrence Analyst; SME

• Employee Type Salary
• Required Degree 4 Year Degree

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Description

Spiral Solutions & Technologies, Inc. (SS&T) is seeking a Deterrence Analyst (SME) to support United States Strategic Command (USSTRATCOM)/J57 under the Strategic Wargaming and Research of Deterrence Support (SWARDS) requirement. This position provides advisory and assistance services (A&AS) to sustain and enhance USSTRATCOM's deterrence planning, analytic agenda, and strategic deterrence education efforts.
This is a contingent-on-award role
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The position supports deterrence mission analysis, contributes to the development and refinement of USSTRATCOM's Analytic Agenda, and assists in maintaining the Command's strategic deterrence education and research initiatives. The analyst applies deterrence expertise to inform strategy, plans, policy, operations, and acquisitions in support of J57's deliberate and campaign deterrence planning across multiple adversaries simultaneously.

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

• Support development, maintenance, and updating of deterrence analysis products based on new intelligence regarding adversary perceptions, decision‑making, and developments that may influence those perceptions.
• Support refinement and expansion of interactions with the intelligence community, outside experts, and other agencies to enhance deterrence analysis.
• Advance deterrence thinking and its application to deterrence strategy development to meet the changing security environment, including analysis of deterring two nuclear peer adversaries simultaneously.
• Conduct mission analysis supporting deliberate and campaign deterrence planning across all deterrence periods, including assessments of adversary perceptions and strategies to impose prohibitive costs on adversaries challenging American interests.
• Support development of courses of action to achieve deterrence strategies and expand approaches for measuring and evaluating the deterrent impact of U.S. actions during and after implementation.
• Support impact assessment of deterrence campaigns and risk‑of‑strategic‑deterrence‑failure assessments.
• Maintain research capability to develop and refine analysis methods, strategic deterrence concepts, and identify, collect, and evaluate analytical lessons learned.
• Conduct analyses in accordance with established planning procedures, as determined by USSTRATCOM and other U.S. Government needs.
• Assist in developing, refining, and documenting USSTRATCOM's Analytic Agenda, including conducting literature reviews, performing research, and engaging with practitioners, academics, and other stakeholders.
• Maintain a current understanding of USSTRATCOM mission sets, OPLANs, CONPLANs, strategic initiatives, and Commander's guidance to identify and inform research priorities and ensure alignment with command requirements.
• Assist in the development and preparation of briefings, reports, summaries, planning documents, and supporting…