Operations Assurance Analyst Junior

Required Qualifications:

• Minimum experience:
  
  9 years w/o a degree or 7 years with AS/AA or 5 years with a BS/BA, 3 years with an MS/MA, 1 years with a PhD,
• Experience must include space defense operations and/or space operations, including the use of flight safety or Indications & Warning (I&W) system tools (i.e., STK, ASW, DPS, DSS, MPS)
• Experience demonstrating applied knowledge of orbital mechanics, conjunction assessment or related satellite operations
• Experience with STK, DSS, SPADOC, ATLAS or ASW systems
• Active TS/SCI with adjudicated Poly

• several years of combined prior space operations experience working as anorbital analyst,flight safety analyst,BSA, WO,or satellite mission planner ataground station
• SME-level understanding of orbital mechanics, flight safety tools and mission applications
• 1+ years assigned IC organizations
• Advanced knowledge of foreign/domestic space & ground threat capabilities and space surveillance networks with prior experience in tasking space surveillance resources
• Prior space launch custody and/or maneuver processing experience
• Understanding of command structure, command authority and war fighting doctrine
• Prior experience tasking space surveillance resources and processing space events
• Experience advising and collaborating with military and civilian leaders

Fort Belvoir

The Operations Assurance  Analyst Junioris aproceduralandtechnicalprofessionalon systems performing Indications and Warnings (I&W) functions in defense of critical space assetsand is responsible for enabling

Battlespace

Awareness and Mission Protectionteamsconducting 24/7operatorsto succeedin aSpace Warfighting domain.

As the senior

Battlespace

Awareness(BSA) andWatch

Operator(WO), youwillmaintain certification and readinessforthese crewpositionsand guide the development of Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) and assist in course of action (COA) planning in support of mission protection.

The successful candidate will maintain awareness onhigh-interest threat activity and support analysis,planning,training andexerciseactivitiesas an expert in space threatcapabilitiesand orbital mechanics.

Mission protection responsibilities include monitoring I&W systems,reporting threat risks and asset system operational statuses,criticallyanalyzingthreat pattern of behaviors, and identifyingandmitigating intelligence gaps in adversary capabilities.

The Operations Assurance Anlayst will work continuously to ensure existing and developing system tool capabilities are expediently integrated in current operational procedures, trainingmaterialsand job aids.

• Maintain dual certification in BSA and WO24/7crew positions andcontinueproficiency on applicable system tools(i.e., Systems Tool Kit (STK),and other I&W tools)
• Development TTPs, COAsandwork to improve thresholds for checklist entry criteria
• Assistsystemintegrationefforts oflatest I&W software tools and capabilities, guide alerting and entry criteria thresholds as a mission subject-matter-expert
• Report on operations capabilities, system degradation, latencies and statuses that may impact the mission
• Detect threat activity and maintain accurate terrestrial and space catalog databases
• Routinely create reports,products and brief leadership daily andad hoc for ongoing space events of interest
• Analyze various satellite state position data sources, make pattern-of-life based assessments and report on vulnerabilities to mission assets
• Prioritize and executecollectiontaskingusing available asset resources
• Participateinreal world and exercise space event planning and execution efforts
• Maintain Awareness of current high-interest terrestrial and space-basedactivityaffecting space domain
• Perform contingency tasks;initiatepersonnelrecalls(when directed) and establish operations loops
• Identify any system or intelligence gaps and assumptions that may pose a risk to mission success andreport, manage and mitigate those risks

*** This position is contingent upon award of contract***