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Future Operating Environment Specialist
Employer:
Ironclad Defense Works (IDW)
Location:
Norfolk, VA (HQ SACT) with limited travel to NATO nations
Contract:
VANGARD, IFIB-ACT-SACT-26-01 (base 2026 with option years through 2030).
Explore and explain the Future Operating Environment—enhancing cooperation, planning, and information sharing with Allies, Partners and non‑NATO actors. Apply strategic foresight and trend analysis across geopolitical, technological, demographic, and environmental drivers; build scenarios and wargames; synthesize intelligence, science and operational lessons to surface emerging threats, opportunities and capability gaps, enabling shared situational awareness.
Responsibilities- Lead and assist futures studies and trend analysis; design scenarios and wargames that illuminate plausible futures and force‑design implications.
- Produce firm‑fixed‑price deliverables under Task Orders (e.g., Research Papers; Concept Development; Capability Development; Technical Trials) in a Just‑in‑Time model.
- Coordinate with multinational stakeholders (e.g., ACO, NCI Agency) and HQ SACT branches/divisions; deliver executive‑ready briefs and documentation supporting transformation decisions.
- Oversee hiring of Junior, Senior, and Expert performers aligned to Annex E performance levels for deliverables project management.
- Must be a citizen of a NATO member nation.
- English proficiency at STANAG 6001 SLP 3333 (Listening/Speaking/Reading/Writing) or equivalent.
- Active NATO or National SECRET (or higher) clearance.
- Valid NATO‑nation passport with no travel restrictions to NATO nations.
- Hands‑on experience in strategic foresight, trend analytics, scenario design/wargaming, and cross‑community (Allied/partner/industry/academia) collaboration for shared situational awareness.
- Full‑time, contingent on award; firm‑fixed‑price deliverables under Task Orders.
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