RFQ - C3 Policy Directive and Digital Roadmap Development Support

McBride, based in McLean, VA, USA, and with offices in Brussels and Bucharest (McBride International), is a Prime Contractor on the NCIA A&AS Framework. We are a management and IT consulting firm with significant professional services experience that includes IT transformation, project management, digital transformation, strategic planning, business process improvement, change management, human capital management, systems engineering, and operations. Due to our excellent relationship with NATO and the first-class, security cleared candidates that we source and supply from all 32 NATO nations, we are extremely privileged to ask you to review this role to assess your suitability of skills.

You will be working as a contractor for our client – NATO Communications & Information Agency (NCIA)
NATO Communications & Information Agency (NCIA) NCIA was established on 1 July 2012 from a merger of several NATO entities. It has a 65-year legacy of supporting NATO operations, missions, and exercises and is on the front lines against cyber threats, protecting NATO's networks 24/7. NCIA provides expertise and services that are critical to NATO's ability to fulfill its core tasks of consultation, collective defence, and crisis management.

This is a remote position.

Under the direction of the project manager or assigned task leader, you will conduct the following activities:

• Proposing changes to the following set of NATO’s implementation directives:
  Interoperability, Technical Directive for Interconnectivity of NATO CIS, and Identity, Credential and Access Management (ICAM);
• Proposing changes to the existing approach for the C3 Policy compliance mechanism and support implementation of the approach approved by CDT;
• Proposing changes to C3 Policies, implementation Directives and Roadmaps to reflect based on actual identified cases where extant Digital Policy (or the lack of it) hampers the delivery of modern digital capabilities/ ICT services;
• Engaging with domain experts in NATO, e.g. through surveys and workshops, with the objective to capture and document information needed to prepare the deliverables;
• Preparing meetings, setting agendas, engaging with representatives, manage action lists, prepare working papers and presentations, and orchestrate required SME expertise;
• Contributing to the activities from to develop and update the Digital Interoperability Roadmap assigned to NCI Agency through the CDT 2026 POW, including:
• Conducting data collection through interviews with SMEs;
• Maintain all data from SME interviews is maintained in the DIOR Wiki, with potential recommendations managed as DIOR Tasks for processing;
• Preparing an updated version of the IO roadmap for presentation to the DPC; and
• Attending IP CaT meetings to progress DIOR development.
• Contributing to the development and maintenance of the wiki-based toolset to monitor and report of status and progress regarding to specified activities from the Digital Interoperability Roadmap; and
• Contributing to the development of actions assigned to the IPCaT under DIOR Baseline 2, including the development of the interoperability exchange format standard.

Essential education, experience, and training:

• Expert knowledge in the area of interoperability,
• Expert knowledge on NATO C4
  
  ISR systems, emerging technologies, best practices for software development;
• Expert knowledge of NATO Policies and Directives, with intimate knowledge of the NATO C3 Interoperability Policy and NATO Enterprise C3 Interoperability Directive;
• Demonstrated experience in C4
  
  ISR/IT system development throughout the life cycle (management, analysis, design, system engineering, development, integration and implementation);
• Demonstrated experience in managing complex projects related to C4
  
  ISR capability development;
• Demonstrated experience producing technical documentation, e.g. reports and specifications;
• Demonstrating experience working in NATO committees and working groups, with focus on capability development and interoperability; and
• Demonstrated expertise in using, configuring, developing and updating the Wikimedia Semantic Media Wiki (i.e. Tidepedia)

No Personnel Security Clearance (PSC) required