Tactical Aviation Mission Analyst

Do you have experience planning, leading, instructing, evaluating, or executing tactical aviation or operational test missions in complex operational environments?

Are you interested in applying your operational judgment to help shape the next generation of air combat systems and operational concepts?

If so, we’re looking for someone like you to join our team at APL!

We are seeking an experienced tactical aviation professional to help evaluate future air combat systems, weapons, countermeasures, and multi-domain sensing and communications. This role is a bridge from operational aviation experience into modeling, simulation, and analysis.
We do not expect you to arrive as an experienced modeling and simulation analyst. We will help you learn our tools and methods while you help us ask better operational questions, build realistic scenarios, evaluate concepts of employment, and communicate results to military and technical decision-makers.

We are a large team of more than 50 computer scientists and analysts performing mission-level analysis to drive acquisition decisions on important precision strike technologies. Our work is sophisticated, engaging, and frequently has significant impact on Department of War programs. We believe in building strong, productive teams; continually growing our capabilities; cultivating collaborative relationships; and encouraging a work environment that embraces integrity, trust, confidence, teamwork, accountability, and fun.

Our team emphasizes sustainable staff development, intellectual integrity, and the delivery of outstanding, unbiased analysis products.

• Apply tactical aviation experience to mission-level analysis of advanced air combat and strike warfare systems.
• Develop operational scenarios, mission vignettes, concepts of employment, tactics, and measures of effectiveness for aircraft, weapons, sensors, countermeasures, communications, electronic warfare systems, and other mission systems.
• Work with analysts, software developers, engineers, military operators, program offices, and decision-makers to frame analytical questions and evaluate operational effectiveness.
• Learn and apply modeling and simulation tools to assess air combat and precision strike missions at the system, system-of-systems, and force-structure levels.
• Interpret simulation results, identify operationally meaningful insights, communicate limitations, and brief findings to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Contribute to research efforts that explore future air combat, strike warfare, electronic warfare, autonomy, teaming, and force employment challenges.

You meet our minimum qualifications for the job if you…

• Have a bachelor’s degree in any field, or equivalent military or professional experience relevant to the role.
• Have operational experience in multiple aspects of tactical or test air missions, such as planning, leading, evaluating, executing, or instructing, including applying or developing tactics, techniques, procedures, concepts of employment, mission plans, or operational test approaches.
• Have experience communicating complex operational concepts clearly with technical teams, government civilians, military officers, and other partners.
• Are comfortable learning technical and quantitative analysis methods, including modeling and simulation tools, data analysis methods, scripting, or scientific computing workflows.
• Are able to obtain an Interim Secret-level security clearance by your start date and ultimately obtain a Top Secret-level clearance. If selected, you will be subject to a government security clearance investigation and must meet the requirements for access to classified information. Eligibility…